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Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald City council today will hear an application for a land use bylaw amendment that will allow the creation of a 24-hour child care and respite facility for youth with disabilities at the site of a westside daycare that is under construction. If the project gets the green light, it will be [...] Read More »

Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD The provincial government on Monday announced it is investing $22 million over three years to modernize and expand the renal dialysis unit at Chinook Regional Hospital. The province says the funding will improve programs for southern Alberta who who chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease and depend on dialysis for [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge city council today will be asked to give second and third readings to three bylaws when it meets in chambers at 12:30 p.m. It will also address multiple items in the consent agenda, any of which can be removed for further discussion. Two of the items for second and third [...] Read More »

Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD Facing no real choice, the Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council on Thursday voted to recommend that funding be approved to supply the Lethbridge Police Service with provincially mandated body cameras. The Alberta government in early 2023 ordered all police forces in the province to be wearing [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Profitability and cost efficiecies are key considerations for airlines, the Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council heard on Thursday. Mike Perkins, senior manager of airport affairs for WestJet in Calgary, told the SPC online during a report on Lethbridge air service, that the local market is a [...] Read More »

RICHMOND — RCMP say they’ve arrested the pilot of a small aircraft that was allegedly hijacked from Victoria and flown to Vancouver International Airport, where other flights had to be temporarily halted. RCMP in Richmond, B.C., say in a statement that a report came in just after 1 p.m. Tuesday about a Cessna that “had [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — When Deleon Guerrero last visited Victoria in 2023, he arrived by car as part of a family road trip from Oregon. On Tuesday, he sailed into Victoria as a Cadet on board the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle as a Canadian navy vessel saluted America’s only active square-rig tall ship with an arch [...] Read More »

RICHMOND — Vancouver International Airport says a person has been taken into custody after a “security incident” involving a small private aircraft shut down arrivals for more than half an hour. The airport says in a statement that the incident occurred in airspace above the airport around 1:30 p.m., and that RCMP responded. It says [...] Read More »

RICHMOND — Vancouver International Airport says a “security incident” involving a small private aircraft shut down arrivals for more than half an hour. The airport says in a social media statement that the incident occurred in airspace above the airport, and a social media video shows multiple police vehicles on the tarmac behind a small [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal reserved its decision in a case involving two B.C. farmers who are fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to destroy around 400 ostriches after an outbreak of avian flu. After hearing arguments on Tuesday in Ottawa, Justice Mary Gleason told the court that the panel [...] Read More »