Southern Alberta News
Pipeline bet cost Albertans
By TIM KALINOWSKI on January 22nd, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Opposition Finance Critic and Lethbridge West MLA Shannon Phillips said Premier Jason Kenney made a risky bet on the Keystone XL pipeline that left Alberta taxpayers over-exposed, and now on the hook for billions of dollars after on his first day in office President Joe Biden, as promised throughout the last year of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Violent offender facing new charges
By Delon Shurtz on January 22nd, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 23-year-old violent offender who was convicted in 2018 of sexually assaulting a woman and cutting her throat, is facing new charges. The accused, who can’t be named because he was only 17 when he assaulted his victim, was back in Lethbridge court this week for allegedly breaching a conditional supervision order, which was granted ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Blood Tribe stepping up efforts to close drug houses
By Tim Kalinowski on January 21st, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Blood Tribe Police Service is confirming the Blood Tribe council, with the assistance of the Housing department and occasional assistance of the BTPS, has stepped up efforts to close up local drug houses as opioid overdoses have surged on the First Nation in recent months. “It is the community’s initiative in conjunction ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Return of winter putting people at risk of exposure outside
By Tim Kalinowski on January 21st, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com With winter weather expected to return next week, street advocate and Kindness to Others founder, Alvin Mills, says there has been a recent surge in people coming to Lethbridge from the Kainai Reserve who are either choosing to sleep outside due to ongoing restrictions at Alpha House or simply have no other place ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City man celebrates 100th birthday
By Dale Woodard on January 21st, 2021
When Peter Lewko arrived in Lethbridge as a teenager in 1938, things looked a little bit different. Eighty-three years later, Lewko has been around to see that change and on Wednesday afternoon he celebrated his 100th birthday with family and friend’s at Martha’s house. “This afternoon I’ve got my boy (Ian) coming down from Calgary ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Details scarce in Taber CAO contract termination
By Cole Parkinson on January 21st, 2021
Further information of town council’s decision to terminate the contract of CAO Cory Armfelt are limited. After town council voted 4-3 to terminate the contract of the CAO, Mayor Andrew Prokop spoke about the reason for lack of information as to why the CAO had been removed from his position. “Really, it’s just more of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Picture Butte mayor calls 2020 an unprecedented year
By Southern Alberta Newspapers on January 21st, 2021
Picture Butte Mayor Cathy Moore says that COVID-19 has posed a challenge we’ve never seen before. Posing the biggest challenge the Town of Picture Butte had faced in 2020, the pandemic made for an “unprecedented” year and the town had to keep up with changing restrictions, keeping their staff safe, creating contingency plans to continue ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Coal lease pause not enough, say groups
By Tim Kalinowski on January 20th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.comL Southern Alberta conservation groups and some public officials are welcoming the UCP government’s announcement that it will be putting a pause on new coal leases in the Eastern Slopes and cancelling new offerings on 11 leases with the Oldman River headwaters, but stress this gesture does little to address the many more lease ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City man hoping for conditional discharge
By Delon Shurtz on January 20th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man hopes he’ll only receive a conditional sentence for headbutting another man during a road rage incident two years ago. During a hearing last week in Lethbridge provincial court, Lethbridge lawyer Wade Hlady said he will ask for a conditional sentence order when his client, Colton Hunter Hemmaway, returns to ... Read More »
2 responsesBlack history project evolves into documentary
By Dale Woodard on January 20th, 2021
Lethbridge Herald It started as an oral history project and turned into full documentary. Thanks to the collaboration of five professors, Black History On The Prairies as part of The University of Lethbridge Anti-Racism Film Series took shape. In a Zoom conference Tuesday afternoon, Jenna Bailey — an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senator says feds late to pandemic party
By Tim Kalinowski on January 20th, 2021
LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Alberta Senator Doug Black says the federal government has been late to the party since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of public health response, and continues to be late as this crucial vaccine rollout period begins across the country. “My view is we can’t get out of this mess ... Read More »
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