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Aaron Anand-Ford, who was convicted of manslaughter in February, will be sentenced Aug. 28. Anand-Ford was originally charged with second-degree murder in relation to the 2016 homicide of 24-year-old Dustin Hewer, whom he stabbed 13 times after the victim charged at his friend – Jacob Porfoun – with a baseball bat. The jury found Anand-Ford [...] Read More »

Hatters may have had their ears perk up at familiar names a couple times this week watching national news. Most notably, Spencer Fraser, the former GM at local defence contractor Meggitt, was featured prominently in a report of the confusing case of Admiral Mark Norman. Fraser’s new firm, Federal Fleet Services, is one of the [...] Read More »

Two-thirds of farm acres in southeast Alberta are seeded as of May 14, with expected moisture likely to bolster conditions for now emerging crops, according to the provincial report released on Friday. Planting in the Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and Foremost regions, at 67 per cent complete, is three times more advanced than last year and [...] Read More »

Government MLAs will be sworn in Tuesday at 9 a.m., including Drew Barnes, MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat, and Michaela Glasgo, MLA for Brook-Medicine Hat. The swearing-in ceremony will be followed by the election of the speaker and deputy, the chairs of committees and deputies, which are done by secret ballot. The election will take place [...] Read More »

There will be another byelection in the town of Maple Creek, where voters will go to the polls for a third time in about 16 months in July. This summer’s vote comes after the resignation of town councillor Kevin Rittinger at Tuesday’s council meeting. July 17 was set as voting day to fill the vacant [...] Read More »

TORONTO – Kraft Heinz has acknowledged a rather unexpected potential Cree translation of its latest buzzy condiment to reach Canada. Mayochup, the crowd-sourced name for its pre-mixed mayonnaise-ketchup mashup, can mean something entirely else in some Cree dialects. Arden Ogg, director of the Cree Literacy Network, says that around Moose Factory, the name can be [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Aquarium is suing the city and park board over the 2017 cetacean ban for breach of contract and claiming it lost millions of dollars in revenue. In May 2017 the Vancouver’s park board voted 6 to 1 to approve a bylaw banning whales, dolphins and porpoises in captivity. The bylaw went [...] Read More »

MONTREAL – In many ways, the garage sale that took place at the Sisters of Ste-Anne’s mother house was no different than any of the dozens of others that took place in the Montreal area over the long weekend, although few of the others are quite as steeped in history. On Saturday and Sunday, browsers [...] Read More »

TRUJILLO, Honduras – A British Columbia woman says her pilot brother was killed in a plane crash in Honduras on Saturday. In a phone interview with The Canadian Press on Sunday, Jenna Forseth confirmed her brother Patrick was killed in the crash in the Roatan area, a popular island destination for tourists to the Central [...] Read More »

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Global Affairs Canada confirms that a Canadian citizen has been killed in a plane crash in Honduras. A spokesperson for the department says the crash happened in the Roatan Islands area, a popular tourist destination in the Central American country. Stefano Maron says consular officials in the capital, Tegucigalpa, are in contact [...] Read More »

CANMORE, Alta. – RCMP say a hiker’s body has been recovered after he reportedly fell from a mountain west of Calgary. Police say they were called Sunday afternoon to Heart Mountain for a report that a 21-year-old man had fallen 18 metres. Searchers later found him and he was confirmed dead. Police say he was [...] Read More »

HIGH LEVEL, Alta. – An out-of-control wildfire in northern Alberta has prompted authorities to close a highway and issue a warning that electricity may be cut to people in High Level. The Town of High Level posted on Facebook that although the community is not in imminent danger, its fire department, as well as others, [...] Read More »

CALGARY – The Calgary Police Service says two people are dead after an early-morning multiple-vehicle crash in the city’s northeast. Police say both speed and alcohol are considered factors in the crash that happened at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. They say a 42-year old man in a Toyota Corolla was making a left turn after [...] Read More »

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – A court has ordered that nearly $13 million in Alberta government funds be paid to subcontractors and others involved in the building of a new hospital in Grande Prairie. In September, the province terminated a contract with Calgary-based Graham Construction, which it had been at odds with over the timeline and [...] Read More »

CALGARY – Police in Calgary say they are investigating possible links between four recent homicides in the city that could be related to drugs or organized crime. The latest involves a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed on Tuesday while driving a vehicle in the northeast neighbourhood of Taradale. Two days earlier, a 49-year-old [...] Read More »

Many Canadians will hit the road on long weekend Lethbridge Herald The May long weekend means Canadians will be hitting the highways. In hopes of reducing accidents and fatalities, officials have launched Canada Road Safety Week. Its focus is on driving without electronic distractions. A reported 84 per cent of Canadians now say they have [...] Read More »

Coaldale facility opens for the season Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale is now open and looking forward to putting last year’s West Nile tragedy behind them as it starts a new season. The Birds of Prey Centre lost 15 birds last summer to the disease, a third [...] Read More »

Family business celebrating 70th year Nick Kuhl Lethbridge Herald nkuhl@lethbridgeherald.com While one downtown symbol – the J.D. Higinbotham Building, housing Canada Post and the iconic clock tower – was sold last week, another downtown stalwart is celebrating its 70th anniversary this month. Foster & Sons Jewellers, the third-generation local family business, has become a septuagenarian. [...] Read More »

Other cities looking to Lethbridge for pointers Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Supervised Consumption Site may be one of the new kids on the block compared to other SCS facilities found in Europe or elsewhere, but many mid-sized cities, in particular, at the recent International Harm Reduction Conference in Portugal were looking to [...] Read More »

Delon Shurtz Lethbridge Herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Two people who were charged last month with drug-related offences, released from custody shortly afterward then arrested nearly two weeks later, hope they’ll be released from custody again when they appear in court next week. Larry Healy Jr. and Shaquerri Young Pine were in Lethbridge provincial court Wednesday, where they [...] Read More »

Wedding bells are in the future for actress Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost of “Saturday Night Live.” Johansson’s publicist Marcel Pariseau tells The Associated Press Sunday that the private couple is officially engaged after two years of dating. Pariseau says no date has been set for the nuptials. Johansson, 34, was previously married to actor [...] Read More »

RIO DE JANEIRO – A gang of gunmen roared up to a bar in Belem city in Brazil’s northern Pará state and opened fire, killing six women and five men, media reports said. State officials would confirm only that “a massacre” occurred but gave no details. The G1 news website said police reported that seven [...] Read More »

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian authorities say there has been a “massacre” in the country’s northern Pará state without releasing any details, while Brazilian news media say gunmen attacked a bar in Belem City and killed 11 people. The G1 news website says police reported that seven gunmen opened fire on a bar. G1 says [...] Read More »

CAIRO – A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Sunday near the Giza Pyramids, wounding at least 17 people including tourists, Egyptian officials said. The officials said the bus was travelling on a road close to the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum, which is located adjacent to the Giza Pyramids but is not yet open [...] Read More »

KOLKATA, India – Voting in India’s mammoth national election ended Sunday with the seventh and final phase of a grueling poll that lasted more than five weeks, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party seeks to govern for another five years. Vote counting begins on Thursday, and the election result will likely be known [...] Read More »