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By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald   It was a packed house at the Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens on Friday evening as people gathered to sign the Water not Coal petition, which was recently re-approved. Singer, songwriter Corb Lund submitted the initial application for the petition late last year, which was approved, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Police Service recently released its Provincial Policing Standards Audit report, where they were fully compliant with all 159 standards.  Inspector Robin Klassen said all police services across Alberta must go through these audits every 4 years. The audit was completed in 2025.  Klassen explained that the 159 standards [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald With pounding drums, swirling dragons and flashes of red and gold, the Southern Alberta Chinese Association (SACA) welcomed the Year of the Fire Horse — a rare zodiac year that last occurred in 1966 — on Saturday evening at the Coast Lethbridge Hotel & Conference Centre.  The sold-out Lunar New [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre announced their car and cash winners Monday afternoon, after months of running a car raffle to raise funds to expand their Dunford Diner.  Winner of the 2025 Subaru Crosstrek Touring Edition Pattie Ambrus, said she saw that Nord-Bridge was raffling a car, the car she always wanted, [...] Read More »

By Zoe Mason Southern Alberta Newspapers zmason@medicinehatnews.com Premier Danielle Smith provided more details at a media availability Friday about the referendum coming in October. Smith announced the referendum during her address to the province Thursday night. The referendum poses nine questions to Albertans, including several non-constitutional questions about the future of Alberta’s immigration policy and [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The number of Canadians in Mexico who have registered with Ottawa continued to rise Tuesday, even as airlines resumed flights in and out of Puerto Vallarta and the Global Affairs Canada registration system experienced more delays. A statement from Global Affairs Canada sent Tuesday evening said the system is slow and intermittent due [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s human rights commissioner says a lack of collaboration between the Vancouver Police Board and First Nations is hampering progress to end anti-Indigenous racism in policing, years after the handcuffing of a man and his granddaughter put a spotlight on the issue. Maxwell Johnson of the Heiltsuk Nation and his then-12-year-old granddaughter [...] Read More »

CALGARY — RCMP say the older brother of Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar has been arrested in Alberta in an attempted murder investigation. They say in a statement that Jacob Jan Van Rootselaar was arrested on an outstanding warrant last Thursday in Sylvan Lake, Alta., stemming from a 2024 case in Fort McMurray. Jan [...] Read More »

TORONTO — A woman accusing Frank Stronach of raping her in a hotel suite decades ago has a “tendency to lie” and continues to add new details to her account of the encounter, the businessman’s lawyer suggested Tuesday. Leora Shemesh pressed the woman, who is the fifth complainant to testify at Stronach’s sexual assault trial, [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government will spend $3.7 billion to build 6,000 more housing units for Canada’s military, Defence Minister David McGuinty said on Tuesday. McGuinty made the announcement at CFB Uplands in Ottawa, but could not provide a timeline for when the new units would be built other than saying it will span “several [...] Read More »