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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Mayor Blaine Hyggen spoke to media on Monday and said the province announced Friday they will be closing the temporary mobile overdose prevention unit located here in Lethbridge.  Hyggen said he wrote a letter to the Alberta government to request the conclusion of the temporary mobile overdose prevention unit here [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald The quiet hum inside the trades wing at Lethbridge Polytechnic didn’t last long Saturday morning. By 8 a.m., it was all focus, fine margins and flying sawdust as nearly 75 high school students from across southwestern Alberta got down to business at the 2026 South West Regional Skills Canada Competition. [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Firefighters IAFF Local 237 has expressed concern for their contract renewal with Emergency Health Services – Alberta, as the city was given less than a month to make a decision.  President of Lethbridge Fire Fighters AIFF Local 237, Brent Nunweiler told the Herald Monday that the province has told [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The case of a 22-year-old charged with luring a child under 14 and invitation to sexual touching was heard in Lethbridge court Friday.  Sean Cedric Bilo’s charges stem from an incident that took place in December 2025.     In mid-December 2025, police responded to a report that a 13-year-old [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Once upon a time…when I was a child growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 70s, “streaming options” meant adjusting the rabbit-ear antenna and hoping for the best. We had three main channels—ABC, CBS and NBC; plus a local station, KTVU, and my favourite…public television station [...] Read More »

Canada’s justice minister is brushing aside calls from four premiers to start appointing judges at the provincial appeal and superior court level that are pre-approved and recommended by their governments. “We’re not contemplating a sea change in the manner of which judges are appointed,” Sean Fraser told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday. “We haven’t changed [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — Vessels will have to steer one kilometre clear of endangered southern resident orcas under newly proposed federal regulations that are being applauded by commercial whale watchers. Erin Gless, executive director of the Pacific Whale Watch Association that represents 28 companies in Canada and the United States, says the organization “strongly supports” the proposed [...] Read More »

Canadian sport needs an overhaul, and it starts with the federal government. That was the conclusion of the Future of Sport in Canada Commission’s final report released Tuesday. The Canadian sport system is broken, fragmented and unsustainable, said Lise Maisonneuve, a former chief justice of the Ontario court of justice, who headed the commission. The [...] Read More »

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala tabled on Tuesday the provincial budget for 2026-27. Here are some highlights: — The provincial sales tax is to be removed, as of July, on all food at grocery stores. Basic groceries are already exempt. — The annual homeowners credit on education property taxes is to increase next [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — A Yukon non-profit says the federal government is wrongfully dragging its feet on reconsidering a decision to cut funding for a program that delivered nutritious meals to hundreds of First Nations children in rural areas of the territory. The Yukon First Nation Education Directorate Society says its rural nutrition program served about 900 [...] Read More »