Southern Alberta News
Nikka Yuko project wins international award
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 7th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden will be in the international spotlight  March 29 in Montreal when an award is presented for the Nikkei Memory Capture Project. The project was a collaboration between the garden and a team including University of Lethbridge researcher Carly Adams and University of Plymouth professor Darren Aoki. They, along with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hyggen welcomes grant increase from province in proposed budget
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 7th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta government is planning to increase its Grants in Place of Taxes program by more than $17 million if its 2025 budget is approved. That funding will rise to more than $55 million from $38 million, covering 75 per cent of the municipal tax value of eligible provincial properties in 2025. In ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!SPC reviews reserve numbers
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Darrell Mathews, the City of Lethbridge’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, on Wednesday detailed the City of Lethbridge’s preferred figures for financial reserves to the Audit Standing Policy Committee of city council. In his presentation in council chambers, Mathews addressed proposed amendments to the City’s Financial Reserves policy CC65, that include optimal balanced targets ... Read More »
1 responseJob seekers show up to learn about employment opportunities
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Teamworks Career Centre gave hundreds of local job seekers an opportunity to interact with prospective employers during their annual job fair Wednesday at the Agri-food Hub and Trade Centre. With employers from all types of industries present, those in attendance had multiple choices and the convenience of having them all under one roof. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Homebuilders concerned about impact of tariffs
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) Lethbridge Region is seriously concerned about the tariffs imposed on Canada by the United States and considered them unjustified. Bridget Mearns, executive officer of BILD Lethbridge Region, said that even though they are concerned about the impact of the tariffs on the industry, the impact ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Task force working together to tackle tariffs
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A growing list of community partners are coming together to organize an Economic Resilience Task Force for the region to help deal with what are being referred to as “the Trump Tariffs” introduced this week. Trevor Lewington, CEO of Economic Development Lethbridge told media Wednesday that the Lethbridge Region Economic Resilience Task Force ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Symphony looking for feedback in online survey
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Lethbridge Symphony wants to know what it’s doing well and what it needs to do better to grow its audience. Under the direction of conductor Albert Rodnunsky the symphony  performed its first concert in 1961 and decades later under the  ceiling of the Southminster United Church sanctuary, it continues to  gauge new ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family’s $500K donation an investment in local health care
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Shilpa Stocker and her family know how important quality health care is. Due to family experiences, they’ve come to know that timely health care can be critical for one’s well being. In honour of their late mother, Stocker, her sister Mayuri Modgill, and their her father Champak Morzaria, recently made a $500,000 donation for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous speakers talk about the road they walk as two-spirit people
By Alexandra Noad - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on March 5th, 2025
Before settlers arrived on Turtle Island, what would later become to be known as North America, each tribe had roles for each gender. There were some members who played a part in both roles, who were considered sacred among tribes. Today they are known as two-spirit people. This identity was the belief of having both ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Terrible tariff Tuesday’ takes forefront at UCP town hall in Medicine Hat
By Brendan Miller SOUTHERN ALBERTA NEWSPAPERS bmiller@medicinehatnews.com on March 5th, 2025
Premier Danielle Smith attended a town hall discussion with Justin Wright, MLA Cypress-Medicine Hat, in front of approximately 350 residents to answer a series of eight pre-screened questions as well as taking questions live in-person from a microphone. Speaking just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Home, Garden and Leisure show will be bigger and better
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on March 5th, 2025
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The highly anticipated 2025 Home, Garden and Leisure Show is just around the corner, returning March 13-15 at the Agri-food Hub and Trade Centre with even more to offer. This year’s event is once again a partnership between the Building Industry & Land Development Association (BILD) Lethbridge Region and Meibel Consulting Ltd. Bridget ... Read More »
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