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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The case of a 22-year-old charged with luring a child under 14 and invitation to sexual touching was heard in Lethbridge court Friday.  Sean Cedric Bilo’s charges stem from an incident that took place in December 2025.     In mid-December 2025, police responded to a report that a 13-year-old [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Once upon a time…when I was a child growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 70s, “streaming options” meant adjusting the rabbit-ear antenna and hoping for the best. We had three main channels—ABC, CBS and NBC; plus a local station, KTVU, and my favourite…public television station [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  At Paradise Canyon Golf Resort, the grass is still winter-yellow, the snow chased off by warmer days and the ever-present wind. But under a bright first-day-of-spring sun on Friday, that’s more than enough for golfers eager to get back on the course—including some who’ve made the trip south from Calgary, [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald If Alberta’s economy is working as designed, then the question raised Thursday at the weekly Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs (SACPA) meeting was a simple one. Who exactly is it working for? At a one-hour Noon session at the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization (LSCO), Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald The razors are sharp, the music is haunting, and a dark classic is taking centre stage in Lethbridge. For the first time, the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra and Little Lethbridge Opera Theatre are joining forces to bring Sweeney Toddto life — and death — at Southminster United Church. Opening night on Thursday [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Four of the five federal NDP leadership candidates say they won’t be in a hurry to enter the House of Commons if they win — a position the only MP in the race calls “a little bit odd.” Filmmaker Avi Lewis said if he is chosen as the new NDP leader next week, [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Federal departments and agencies are looking to cut more than 12,000 full-time equivalent jobs over the next three years as part of the Carney government’s spending review. That figure comes from plans released by federal departments and agencies for 2026-27 outlining how they’ll shed billions of dollars to meet the government’s cost-cutting targets. [...] Read More »

The Artemis II rocket that’s to carry Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the moon made its way Friday to the launch pad ahead of its April blastoff. NASA says it took 11 hours for the rocket and its accompanying Orion spacecraft to travel four miles, or about six kilometres, from the Vehicle Assembly Building at [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Intelligence and cybersecurity experts are warning the Liberal government about national security risks posed by allowing Chinese electric vehicles onto Canadian military bases. Critics and some experts are even calling on Ottawa to ban the cars from Canadian Armed Forces bases and other sensitive sites due to onboard sensors they say could collect [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — The sun came out in some parts of southern British Columbia on Friday after relentless rain hammed the coast for days, but the risks of flooding and landslides persist, especially in the Fraser Valley. Environment Canada warnings issued Friday say heavy rain, combined with mountain snow melt, could lead to bloated river systems [...] Read More »