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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 — First Nations leaders on Tuesday unveiled five items repatriated to their communities after being held at the Vatican for more than a century. They also unboxed another two crates of items with origins that have yet to be determined. The returned items include a birch bark sap collector from Akwesasne, embroidered leather gloves [...] Read More »

ABBOTSFORD — A defence lawyer for one of three men accused of murdering an Abbotsford, B.C., couple says the crime was “despicable” and “senseless,” but DNA and other circumstantial evidence aren’t enough to prove premeditation of the killings. The bodies of Arnold and Joanne De Jong were found in their home in May 2022, both [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Vancouver City Coun. Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim for defamation over comments in which he accused Orr of distributing illegal drugs. The lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court says Sim acted “deliberately, maliciously and in bad faith” when he told Chinese-language reporters on Feb. 6 that Orr had handed out drugs [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Vancouver City Coun. Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim for defamation over comments in which he accused Orr of distributing illegal drugs. More coming. The Canadian Press[...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says more than 7,000 Canadians have left the Middle East since the latest conflict began. Anand told reporters Tuesday that includes more than 4,300 Canadians, permanent residents and their relatives who have returned to Canada between March 4 and March 8, using both direct and indirect routes. “We [...] Read More »