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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald After being closed for over a decade, St. Patrick’s Church re-opened in March 2023 to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and almost 600 people filled its pews.  Although, the church has been opened with limited usage, many have hoped one day the church will re-open for weekly Sunday mass and the [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald If agriculture feeds the world, who feeds agriculture? That question framed discussions at the Farming Smarter 2026 Conference and Trade Show, where producers, agronomists and industry leaders gathered to examine what the future of farming requires — and who will help shape it. For speaker Ashley Nicholls who gave the [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  New West Theatre brings sharp humour, romance, and thin-wall farce to the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, just in time for Valentine’s Week. If you thought “the birds and the bees” was an awkward conversation best left to health class, think again. Just in time for Valentine’s Week, New West Theatre is [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald Community organizations, charities and local schools in Lethbridge County are encouraged to apply for up to $10,000 in grant funding. This grant funding will be available under the Community Benefit Fund, a partnership between Lethbridge County and the Stirling Wind Project, which was established in 2024 [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  A 12-year-old boy charged with the attempted murder of his seven-year-old brother has been sentenced to three years of Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision.  The accused, who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been in custody since his arrest in August.  The matter appeared in front [...] Read More »

TUMBLER RIDGE — A tiny town in the shadow of the Rockies learned more Thursday about who they lost in a mass shooting that killed kids as young as 12, with one of those youngsters still battling a grievous bullet wound to the brain. The mother of 12-year-old Maya Gebala has bullet wounds to the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Tumbler Ridge, B.C., to attend a vigil on Friday. The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney was invited by the town’s mayor and that he has invited all other federal party leaders to join him. Nine people, mostly children, were killed in the mass shooting Tuesday, including Jesse [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Federal public health officials say a freezer door was left open at the national emergency stockpile in December 2024, causing the loss of $20 million worth of medication. Officials from the Public Health Agency of Canada were called before the House of Commons health committee this week to answer questions about what happened. [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Culture Minister Marc Miller has accused a Conservative MP of misleading a Parliamentary committee over a comment made by the head of an independent producers’ group. During a Heritage committee hearing today, MP Rachael Thomas mentioned the head of the Canadian Media Producers Association stating at a recent conference that the industry and [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab says changes to the refugee status claim process proposed in Bill C-12 are “better for the applicants” even as multiple organizations are heavily critical of the plan. The government’s broad border and immigration bill proposes barring people who first came to Canada more than a year ago from filing [...] Read More »