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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Excite Lethbridge has partnered with Cooper Equipment Rentals, not only to name one of the halls in the Lethbridge Trade & Convention Centre, but also to provide resources for Excite Lethbridge’s events.  Cooper Equipment Rentals is now the exclusive rental equipment provider of Excite Lethbridge and are the new title [...] Read More »

Editor: A recent Crowsnest Pass Herald editorial delivered a counter to the envisioned worth and merit of Corb Lund’s petition aimed to stop new coal mining on Alberta’s Eastern Slopes. The editorial included these sentences: Science matters. Environmental monitoring matters. I concur. I couldn’t agree more.  My belief in science, enhanced by reading well-documented scientific [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Police Service and the Law Enforcement Torch Run are encouraging community members to register for the 2026 Polar Plunge and brave the cold to raise funds for Special Olympics. Cst. Gavin Enns with the Downtown Policing Unit told media on Thursday, while sitting in cold water at Artic [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald On most nights, Honkers Pub and Eatery carries the familiar rhythm of steady conversation, clinking glasses and the low hum of a room filled with regulars who know the menu as well as they know each other. Perched between Lethbridge’s industrial area and the southeast corner of [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald   Students and alumni of Lethbridge Polytechnic had the opportunity to speak with over 100 different organizations with job opportunities at their third annual career fair held yesterday. Adrianna Smith, student development coordinator at Lethbridge Polytechnic says the career fair is more than just helping students find [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The Canadian government denied convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein permission to enter the country in 2018 due to his criminal past, newly released U.S. government documents reveal. On Friday, the U.S. Justice Department released some 3.5 million pages of documents related to Epstein which include correspondence from his personal email address with the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with an insurance company in a dispute over coverage for a family whose home on the Ottawa River was declared a total loss due to flooding. Trillium Mutual Insurance Co. acknowledged that the loss of Stephen and Claudette Emond’s house in April 2019 was covered under [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — A beleaguered manufacturing sector was weighing on the economy heading into the end of 2025, Statistics Canada said Friday. Real GDP growth was flat in November, rebounding somewhat from a decline of 0.3 per cent in October, the agency said. StatCan said drops in activity in goods-producing industries were offset by expansion on [...] Read More »

A 40-year-old man from Toronto has pleaded guilty in the United States for sexually exploiting more than 100 children on social media. The U.S. Justice Department says the Canadian man pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C., court to charges of production of child pornography and coercion and enticement of a minor. The department says the [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility. A one-line statement posted online by the firm owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison comes after [...] Read More »