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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Police Services are warning residents of the damage unregulated electric dirt bikes are causing to the river valley and the safety risk that they pose for those walking the trails.  Sergeant Ryan Darroch with the Downtown Policing Unit said Friday that in recent months, police [...] Read More »

Scott Sakatch Herald Editor In Thursday’s Herald, the daily poll question asked readers if they thought Albertans should ignore the current recall effort against 14 (for now) UCP MLAs and just wait until the next provincial election to have their say. As you can see on Page A6 today, a slim majority of respondents (57 [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Maintaining cognitive health—the ability to think clearly, learn, and remember—is essential throughout life, but it becomes especially important in older adulthood, when the risk of cognitive decline and conditions such as dementia increases. When you think about your brain health, keep three things in mind: use it [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald University of Lethbridge nursing students organized a Wellness Fair Thursday at St. Patrick Fine Arts School to culminate their community health rotation after being at the school since September.  Kathy Jones-Husch, principal at St. Patrick Fine Arts School, said having the nursing students at the school for their rotation was a [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Salvation Army’s 127th Christmas Kettle campaign has kicked off and members of the Lethbridge Masons are ready to continue their longstanding tradition of manning the kettle located at Park Place Mall. Lt. Zach Marshall, community ministries officer with Salvation Army told the Herald Wednesday that their Christmas Kettle Campaign is [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada maintains a low level of civilian oversight of the military due to Parliament’s rigid party discipline, according to a new book that compares it with fourteen other democracies. That conclusion was arrived at after a 10-year study conducted by a trio of defence experts — academics David Auerswald, Philippe Lagassé and Stephen [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The five NDP leadership candidates all agree on the need to revitalize the party’s grassroots and build up riding associations as the party recovers from its near-wipeout in the April election. Beyond that, the contenders are offering significantly different platform pitches now that the first debate has come and gone. Here are some [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada will soon have a new operations centre to help co-ordinate countrywide disaster response. Government officials on Friday offered media outlets a tour of the new facility, which is expected to be open next month. For security reasons, journalists were required to sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from revealing the facility’s location. [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said Thursday it’s “premature” to draw conclusions about the potential removal or adjustment of the West Coast tanker ban, since no pipeline route has been mapped out to bring oil from Alberta to the B.C. coast. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Hodgson said [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada will soon have a new operations centre to help co-ordinate countrywide disaster response. Government officials on Friday offered media outlets a tour of the new facility, which is expected to be open next month. For security reasons, journalists were required to sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from revealing the facility’s location. [...] Read More »