Southern Alberta News
Donation helps family centre enhance cultural programming
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 18th, 2024
The Nohkohwaa Family and Youth Centre, located in Fort MacLeod, received a donation of $150,000 on Tuesday from TD Bank. The donation will enhance their current cultural programing as well as increase the technology for the site including adding security cameras and program computers. The funds will also be used to help train staff who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Group helping kids in need get ready for winter’s cold
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on September 18th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A newly formed non-for-profit organization called Every Voice Matters Society has launched a project to help children in need get ready to fight the colder temperatures that will be arriving soon. Suketu Shah, executive director of the society told the Herald over a phone interview on Tuesday that they are hoping to receive ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kids returning to school can face risks
By Noreve Gay O. Belarmino - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 18th, 2024
With children going back to school, false traffic assumptions pose a real risk to these young pedestrians. According to Travis Bissett, a partner and chair of the Personal Injury Practice Group at Stringam Law LLP, children are more likely to be pedestrians than adults as they cannot drive, and they can easily become the most ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nikka Yuko hosts fall festival
By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on September 18th, 2024
Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden hosted a two-day Aki Matsuri Fall Festival over the weekend. On Saturday during Aki Matsuri, which means fall in Japanese, attendees could enjoy Artists in the Garden, a live band performance by Jolene Draper and Steve Martin and in the evening a moon-light viewing. The Sunday experience saw a Hibikiya Taiko ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New team of Alberta Sheriffs going after wanted criminals
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on September 18th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The provincial government announced the creation of a new team of Alberta Sheriffs to help bring wanted criminals to justice all across the province during a press conference Tuesday. “Today, I’m pleased to announce that a new Alberta Sheriff’s team created to help track down criminals wanted by authorities, is now up and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Talk on homelessness part of University of Lethbridge series
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 17th, 2024
The University of Lethbridge is presenting six topics around six issues and six opportunities to engage with experts who are at the forefront of research in their field. This year’s lineup for their PUBlic Professors Series include topics such as why honey bees are practically magic, will Generative AI change the world and does reading ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police charge man following stand off
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 17th, 2024
A 28-year-old man has been charged after fleeing from Lethbridge Police in a vehicle and then later barricading himself inside a westside home. On September 13, just before 11 a.m. police say they observed a man who was already wanted on outstanding warrants and a Canada wide-driving prohibition operating a vehicle on the 1500 block ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pupusa Fest celebrates Central American Independence Day
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 17th, 2024
A Lethbridge restaurant celebrated Central American Independence Day on Saturday with the third annual Pupusa Fest a day full of cultural food and music for all to enjoy. Central American Independence Day is a day to celebrate when Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua declared their Independence from Spain on Sept. 15, 1821. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Heart attack survivor runs for Terry Fox
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on September 17th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com At the age of 63, Coalhurst resident Terry Provost did his first Terry Fox Run on Sunday at Legacy Park. Five-time heart attack survivor Provost was born the same year as Fox, whose Marathon of Hope ended near Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1980 when the cancer that had cost him a leg had ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hundreds turn out for annual police run
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on September 17th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Hundreds of runners showed their support for the Special Olympics on Saturday when they turned out for the annual Lethbridge Police Service Run. A total of 696 runners of all ages and abilities ran in either a half-marathon or races of five kilometres or 10-kilometres in length. All proceeds went to support Special ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hydrogen has promise for Alberta: Neudorf
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on September 14th, 2024
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Hydrogen production and technology has many promising opportunities for the province, says MLA for Lethbridge East and Minister of Affordability and Utilities Nathan Neudorf. And the province “continues to be a destination of choice for investors and innovators in the hydrogen sector,” Neudorf said in a statement after promoting the hydrogen market at ... Read More »
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