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Anna Smith Southern Alberta Newspapers Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A $30-million project to a mustard milling facility in Bow Island received support from the province to the tune of a $3.1-million Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit. G.S. Dunn Limited expects the project to add 34 new jobs, access markets in Japan and South Korea and increase [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has received a major land donation along the Oldman River.  Diane Glover has donated 1,253 acres of property to the NCC with the intention of the land being conserved for years to come. In a press release from the NCC to [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Alberta Teachers’ Association  is condemning the government’s plan to table legislation on Monday to force teachers back to work and end the province-wide strike.  ATA president Jason Schilling said Friday that Bill 2, the Back to School Act, is undemocratic and deeply disrespectful to teachers, students and the collective bargaining [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Police Service is inviting the community to join them on Halloween for a fun afternoon of trick-or-treating during their third annual Trunk or Treat, this year with a third location.  Cst. Joel Running said the event gives families an opportunity to bring the kids and get candy from the back [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber Well, that’s a wrap. After a newspaper career that started on May 5, 1980 when I was 20 years old, I’m moving on to new challenges and adventures. After being elected to Lethbridge city council this week, I end my decades-long career in newspapers with this column. When I [...] Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR — Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping while the pair are at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this week in South Korea. Carney said the pair will discuss “a broad range of issues, both in terms of the commercial relationship as well as the evolution [...] Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. Carney says the pair will have a discussion at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this week in South Korea. It will mark the first time the leaders of the two countries have met in [...] Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR — U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney this week while the pair are both in Asia. Trump spoke to reporters on Air Force 1 today en route to Japan, saying he won’t be meeting with Carney “for a long time.” He also says he doesn’t [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Alberta government set to table legislation to order striking teachers back to work The Alberta government is set to table legislation today ordering thousands of striking teachers back to work and end their weeks-long strike. Premier Danielle Smith [...] Read More »

KELOWNA — A British Columbia man who fought off a grizzly bear in the East Kootenay region this month has died of his injuries, more than three weeks after the attack. Joe Pendry’s wife, Janice Pendry, says he died on Saturday morning, from what doctors believed was a blood clot. She says her husband had [...] Read More »