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By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald High school students in southern Alberta have the opportunity to experiment when making the biggest decision of their life-what they want to do with the rest of their life, thanks to the brand new Southern Alberta Collegiate Institute (SACI), which held a grand opening on Friday. This [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Super Bowl Sunday has a way of sneaking extra responsibilities onto the calendar. There’s food to prep, screens to arrange, guests to wrangle, and a kitchen that somehow needs cleaning just as the fourth quarter gets interesting. Or, you can let someone else handle it. Across Lethbridge, community pubs and [...] Read More »

By Alejandra-Pulido Guzman Lethbridge Herald The case of Audrey Small Legs, who is charged with arson in relation to a fire that burned through a southside coulee and areas of the Mountain View Cemetery, appeared in court Friday.  A representative of Robin McIntyre, lawyer of Small Legs, appeared in court Friday to apply for McIntyre [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Some restaurants feed people. Others feed memories. For 30 years, Ricky’s All Day Grill (Ricky’s & Famoso) has quietly done both in Lethbridge—serving breakfasts that turned into traditions, after-work meals that stretched into celebrations, and countless everyday moments that became worth remembering. This weekend, the familiar gathering place is marking [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald February is heart health month, and it provides an opportunity for individuals to evaluate how well they are taking care of their heart.  Dr. Sayeh Zielke, lead of the Cardiac Sciences Physician for the Alberta Health Services South Zone, says she believes the heart to be the most important organ [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Conservatives call for tax relief for GM worker severance packages The Opposition Conservatives are calling on the federal Liberal government to exempt taxes on severance pay for more than a thousand laid-off GM workers in Ingersoll, Ont. Conservative [...] Read More »

Hundreds of engineering students braced the bone-chilling cold over the weekend to race concrete sleds down a hill in London, Ont. As part of the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race, teams from about 20 universities across the country design and construct their own toboggans to send down a hill. This year, the students gathered [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The Opposition Conservatives are calling on the federal Liberal government to reduce taxes on severance packages for laid-off General Motors workers in Ingersoll, Ont. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre penned a letter Sunday, co-signed by labour critic Kyle Seeback and local MP Arpan Khanna, addressed to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne calling for an exemption [...] Read More »

STAVELY — When Sawyer Smith thinks about teammates Caden Fine and JJ Wright, he remembers an instance of team tomfoolery on the golf course. He was with Cameron Casorso on the course when Fine and Wright brought Timbits from a nearby Tim Hortons for them to smash off the teebox. “Pretty much sums up how [...] Read More »

From hockey captaincy to curling struggles, here are some of Canada’s moments from Sunday, Feb. 8, at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games: NHL veteran Sidney Crosby was named captain of the Canadian men’s hockey team at the Milan Cortina Games on Sunday. Crosby is one of only two players on the Canadian roster with previous [...] Read More »