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Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter All it takes is a simple summer job or student opportunity to change the outlook of someone’s career path. For Farming Smarter, several former summer students have gone onto careers in agriculture, whether continuing with the organization or elsewhere in the industry. Executive Director Ken Coles says [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Lethbridge Musical Theatre is ready to raise the curtain on its version of a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale. From Oct. 23 to Nov. 1, LMT will present “Once Upon a Mattress,” its version of Anderson’s classic “The Princess and the Pea.” The production is directed by Laurie [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Public Interest Alberta has raised concerns about the Mintz Report, which includes 11 recommendations to help improve post-secondary education within Alberta. Last week, Bradley Lafortune, executive director for Public Interest Alberta, visited students and faculty of the University of Lethbridge as well as community members to have [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter More than 300 University of Lethbridge students, adorned in caps and gowns, gathered Saturday in the Co-op Centre for Sport & Wellness for the 2025 Fall Convocation. The celebration marks more than the end of studies—it was a celebration of perseverance, pride and the countless personal stories [...] Read More »

Anna Smith Southern Alberta Newspapers Local Journalism Initiative Reporter In the home stretch of signature collection, petition originator and former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk stopped to rally with volunteers in Medicine Hat. Lukaszuk has spent the past month on the road, visiting different centres to help collect signatures for the Forever Canadian petition and to [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — Joe Pendry used his experience as a boxer to fight for his life when a mother grizzly attacked him, grabbed him by the head and inflicted horrific injuries while he was hunting elk in British Columbia’s East Kootenay region this month. His wife, Janice Pendry, has described how her 63-year-old husband survived the [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — A group representing whale-watching operators has shared a photo of a young humpback with a deep gash in its back, which it says was likely inflicted by a ferry in waters off Vancouver last week. The Pacific Whale Watch Association says the calf was spotted on Monday a few kilometres from the scene [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — The lawyer for a Quebec Liberal MP who won her riding in the April federal election by a single vote argued on Tuesday it would be unfair to other voters to cancel the result over one uncounted ballot. Marc-Étienne Vien, lawyer for MP Tatiana Auguste, told a hearing in St-Jérôme, Que., that ordering [...] Read More »

A British Columbia RCMP officer’s lawyer says her client admits some messages he sent over police mobile data terminals breached the force’s code of conduct, but the investigation into him and fellow officers was unfair and biased. Closing submissions are underway in the misconduct case that alleges racist, sexist and discriminatory comments were made in [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Many of the living spaces used by Canadian Armed Forces members at several bases are in “poor physical condition” and ripe for overcrowding, Auditor General Karen Hogan said in a report released Tuesday. Hogan and her team examined living conditions on three Canadian Forces bases: Esquimalt in British Columbia, Gagetown in New Brunswick [...] Read More »