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By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald   It was a packed house at the Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens on Friday evening as people gathered to sign the Water not Coal petition, which was recently re-approved. Singer, songwriter Corb Lund submitted the initial application for the petition late last year, which was approved, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Police Service recently released its Provincial Policing Standards Audit report, where they were fully compliant with all 159 standards.  Inspector Robin Klassen said all police services across Alberta must go through these audits every 4 years. The audit was completed in 2025.  Klassen explained that the 159 standards [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald With pounding drums, swirling dragons and flashes of red and gold, the Southern Alberta Chinese Association (SACA) welcomed the Year of the Fire Horse — a rare zodiac year that last occurred in 1966 — on Saturday evening at the Coast Lethbridge Hotel & Conference Centre.  The sold-out Lunar New [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre announced their car and cash winners Monday afternoon, after months of running a car raffle to raise funds to expand their Dunford Diner.  Winner of the 2025 Subaru Crosstrek Touring Edition Pattie Ambrus, said she saw that Nord-Bridge was raffling a car, the car she always wanted, [...] Read More »

By Zoe Mason Southern Alberta Newspapers zmason@medicinehatnews.com Premier Danielle Smith provided more details at a media availability Friday about the referendum coming in October. Smith announced the referendum during her address to the province Thursday night. The referendum poses nine questions to Albertans, including several non-constitutional questions about the future of Alberta’s immigration policy and [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump remained committed to realigning global trade through tariffs in his annual state of the union address on Tuesday, days after the United States Supreme Court struck down his levy powers. Trump stood before Congress and the Supreme Court Justices, who were in attendance, calling the ruling “very unfortunate.” The [...] Read More »

Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says federal officials expressed “disappointment” to representatives of OpenAI after a meeting in Ottawa about the company’s failure to warn law enforcement about Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar. Solomon said in a statement that the meeting with leaders from the company was at his request, after what he called [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump stood before Congress Tuesday and declared “our nation is back” as he delivered the annual state of the union address. “We have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before,” Trump said. Trump is making the speech at a critical moment as his trade and immigration agendas [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Cuba’s envoy to Ottawa says the U.S. is trying to overthrow his country’s communist government — but Canada’s foreign service says the regime’s hold on Havana is “quite stable.” The comments come in the midst of a growing humanitarian crisis in Cuba sparked by a U.S. oil blockade, and as Ottawa prepares an [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The number of Canadians in Mexico who have registered with Ottawa continued to rise Tuesday, even as airlines resumed flights in and out of Puerto Vallarta and the Global Affairs Canada registration system experienced more delays. A statement from Global Affairs Canada sent Tuesday evening said the system is slow and intermittent due [...] Read More »