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Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It was a tremendous year for Wider Horizons. The campus magazine produced by Lethbridge Polytechnic took home several industry awards for its publications in 2024 and 2025. Wider Horizons was awarded a silver award from the international Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) circle of [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It looks like the cornhole setup you’d see in a backyard game or campground, except for the small digital screens set up on stands behind each platform which not only keeps score but tracks each player’s stats which they can access via a phone app.  Welcome to [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A new analysis from the Pembina Institute shows counties across Alberta brought in a record number of tax revenue from renewable energy projects—but they’re also missing out on more. According to a media release, Alberta municipalities brought in $70 million from renewable energy projects this year compared [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Christmas Hope Campaign is getting a busload of help for the second year in a row from the city of Lethbridge through the Holiday Bus, which will be collecting non-perishable food items and unwrapped new toys. Joseph Bompiani, operations manager with Lethbridge Transit, said the Holiday Bus was a huge [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The crash landing of a small aircraft at the Lethbridge Airport last Thursday is under investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Just after 2:15 p.m., Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services responded to a call of a small aircraft crash. A twin-propeller Cessna 441 Conquest had [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Carney to advance trade talks in UAE Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Abu Dhabi, where he is expected to advance trade and investment ties with the United Arab Emirates. Senior officials, who briefed reporters travelling to cover [...] Read More »

ABU DHABI — Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Abu Dhabi, where he is expected to advance trade and investment ties with the United Arab Emirates. Senior officials, who briefed reporters travelling to cover the prime minister’s trip, say Carney plans to finalize by Friday a foreign investment protection agreement with the UAE. Such an [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Fertility advocates say they’re disappointed the Liberal government did not make good on its campaign promise to fund in vitro fertilization treatments in the recent federal budget. The Liberals pledged in April to create a program to provide up to $20,000 per cycle of IVF, something they estimated would cost $103 million annually [...] Read More »

TORONTO — A multinational security firm that used to provide screening services at airports in British Columbia and the Yukon is suing the Canadian government for more than $420 million after being replaced by a rival bidder last year. Universal Protection Service of Canada Corp., known as Allied Universal Canada, filed a statement of claim [...] Read More »

A Winston Churchill painting sold for the highest price yet for art once owned by the defunct Hudson’s Bay Co., earning $1.3 million at a Toronto auction Wednesday. The 1935 oil work, a Marrakech scene gifted to HBC by Churchill’s wife, had been expected to sell for between $400,000 and $600,000. The Yorkville sale drew [...] Read More »