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Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald A new book published by a local author has helped shine a spotlight on the early years of the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Mark Weninger has published his second book chronicling junior hockey history, The Run to A Championship looks back on the first 10 years of the Lethbridge Hurricanes franchise, including a [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald   Mayor Blaine Hyggen used his State of the City address on Thursday to frame the year ahead as one of tough choices, cautious optimism and doing more with less, telling business leaders the city must decide between “needs” and wants. His address, delivered during a [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido- Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge is inviting the community to their second annual 5-Stop Gallery Hop tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. to enjoy a variety of work done by southern Alberta artists.  This year’s hop features the Trianon Gallery, L.A. Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Casa, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido- Guzman Lethbridge Herald   A 22-year-old male has been charged with sex related offences by Lethbridge Police in connection with an incident where a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a city hotel room.   Lethbridge Police shared Thursday that on April 24, 2025, police responded to a request to assist in [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido- Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Interfaith Food Bank is inviting community members to support them through a Romance Raffle just in time for Valentine’s Day.  Executive Director Danielle McIntyre said that in 2025 they saw a seven per cent increase in the number of working people in need of their services, jumping from [...] Read More »

Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says she has provided conditional approval for the export of Marineland’s remaining beluga whales to the United States. Thompson says in a statement posted on social media that she met with Marineland today and she will issue final permits once the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park provides further information. The [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — The counsel for the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia at the hearing into the 2015 death of Myles Gray says he is resigning from the long-awaited proceeding after coming under a B.C. Law Society investigation for an obscenity uttered last week. Richard Neary, the lawyer for Brad Hickford, read [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — The Quebec coroner will investigate the death of a woman whose body was found Sunday evening inside a Montreal-area home that had been without power for more than a day. It was fire department officials who found the woman’s body during a door-to-door wellness check on the on-island town of Montreal West, where [...] Read More »

Canadian airlines continue to cancel flights by the hundreds following a record-breaking snowstorm that blasted southern Ontario and Quebec on Sunday and Monday before whirling farther east. After hundreds of cancellations Sunday, aviation analytics firm Cirium says roughly 300 more flights across the country had been called off as of 9 a.m., affecting tens of [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Most NDP MPs were unable to get to Ottawa today for the return of Parliament after weather-related travel issues stranded several of them in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. A party spokesperson says four MPs, including interim leader Don Davies, are in transit to Ottawa after being unable to leave Rankin Inlet for Winnipeg until [...] Read More »