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By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald After a recent string of fires across the city,  including an early-morning blaze that damaged two downtown businesses, Lethbridge’s chief fire marshal is urging residents and business owners to reduce the opportunities for fires to start in the first place. Speaking to reporters on Monday at Fire Hall No. 1, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  Almost four decades after being interviewed as one of the first female engineering students to graduate from the Lethbridge Community College’s Construction Management option of the Civil Engineering and Drafting program in 1989, Shari Jankowiak spoke to the Herald about her retirement plans after 35 years.  Jankowiak shared with the [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Annual gala celebrates agriculture’s regional role while awarding $10,000 scholarships to students pursuing industry careers Community leaders, farmers, students and industry partners gathered Thursday evening to celebrate agriculture and the young people preparing to carry the industry forward. The 8th Annual Rotary Ag Scholarship Awards Dinner, hosted by the Rotary [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Nick Tetz has turned Lethbridge into his personal rodeo. For the sixth straight time, the Calgary bull rider walked out of VisitLethbridge.com Arena with the buckle, capping a dominant weekend with an event-best 89.9-point championship round ride to win the sold-out South Country Co-op Showdown on Saturday night. With thousands [...] Read More »

A health-care advocate says Alberta is at a crossroads, warning that recent policy changes could push the province toward a two-tier system resembling that of the United States. Speaking Thursday to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA), Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway argued that a series of reforms under Premier Danielle [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The NDP says Nunavut MP Lori Idlout has crossed the floor to join the Liberals, pushing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government closer to a majority. Idlout’s move follows defections to the Liberals by three Conservatives in recent months. Interim NDP leader Don Davies issued a statement late Tuesday saying the caucus is “very [...] Read More »

The NDP says Nunavut MP Lori Idlout has crossed the floor to join the Liberals, pushing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government closer to a majority. Idlout’s move follows defections to the Liberals by three Conservatives in recent months. More coming. The Canadian Press[...] Read More »

VICTORIA — B.C. Premier David Eby says he had a “frank discussion” with U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra about the cross-border softwood lumber dispute and tariffs. Eby says he and Hoekstra didn’t agree on everything at their meeting on Tuesday, but he says both expressed hopes for a “positive outcome to trade negotiations” between Canada and [...] Read More »

EDMONTON — A petition looking to oust Alberta Premier Danielle Smith from her seat in the legislature has failed. Smith is the second premier in Alberta’s history to face a recall petition, with the other happening nearly 90 years ago. Heather VanSnick says her campaign against Smith gathered close to 2,300 signatures — but it [...] Read More »

ABBOTSFORD — A weeks-long trial of three men accused of murdering an Abbotsford, B.C., couple came to a close in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday, with defence lawyers painting a picture of a robbery gone wrong leading to the killings, rather than a premeditated case of first-degree murder. Abhijeet Singh, Gurkaran Singh and Khushveer Toor [...] Read More »