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Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber Well, that’s a wrap. After a newspaper career that started on May 5, 1980 when I was 20 years old, I’m moving on to new challenges and adventures. After being elected to Lethbridge city council this week, I end my decades-long career in newspapers with this column. When I [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It was the best last-minute ticket purchase that Mitch Ankermann has ever made.  Ankermann, who lives in Lethbridge, was in attendance for decisive Game 7 of the American League Championship Series at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on Monday. Ankermann was in the Toronto area to visit [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Seven Lethbridge Police Service officers have been recognized by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for their efforts in detecting and removing impaired drivers from Southern Alberta roads. Anita Huchala, President of MADD Lethbridge and Area Chapter,  presented the officers with Cpl. Cumming’s Watch awards on Wednesday. Established in 2015, the Cpl. Cumming’s [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Alberta government has announced new reforms for Albertans to receive preventative screening and elective testing to help patients take charge of their health concerns. Adriana LeGrange, minister of Primary and Preventative Health, says early detection was the sole reason her own eye cancer was able to [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Alberta’s New Democrat Caucus held 10 town halls this summer, knocked on countless doors, and attended numerous community events and festivals.  Lethbridge-West MLA Rob Miyashiro said he heard from Albertans over the summer that affordability is a key concern.  “We found that the UCP priorities are not the same as what [...] Read More »

U.S. President Donald Trump ended trade talks with Canada on Thursday night over what he called a “fake” Ontario government advertisement featuring the words of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. The advertisement quotes a 1987 radio address from Reagan where he spoke about the negative impacts of tariffs. The ad isn’t fake and quotes from [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Public hearings into $500 million in cost overruns at Quebec’s auto insurance board have wrapped up. Commissioner Denis Gallant has until Feb. 13, 2026, to submit his report with recommendations to the provincial government. Premier François Legault launched the inquiry after a February report by the province’s auditor general revealed cost overruns of [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney sets off for his first official trip to Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s regional policy is outdated. Anand says she has told her department to update the Indo-Pacific strategy that the Trudeau government released three years ago. Anand told the Canada 2020 think tank this [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — The lawyer representing the Cowichan Tribes says he is “frustrated and disappointed” with what he calls “misinformation” about his clients’ ground-breaking Aboriginal title case in Richmond, B.C. David Rosenberg says his clients are not targetting privately held land in the title area on the Fraser River and that if the province negotiates in [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will pause its anti-tariff television ad campaign in the United States on Monday so that Canada-U.S. trade talks can restart. Ford says in a media statement that he made the call after speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney. But Ford says he’ll only pull the plug [...] Read More »