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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald After being closed for over a decade, St. Patrick’s Church re-opened in March 2023 to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and almost 600 people filled its pews.  Although, the church has been opened with limited usage, many have hoped one day the church will re-open for weekly Sunday mass and the ... Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald If agriculture feeds the world, who feeds agriculture? That question framed discussions at the Farming Smarter 2026 Conference and Trade Show, where producers, agronomists and industry leaders gathered to examine what the future of farming requires — and who will help shape it. For speaker Ashley Nicholls who gave the ... Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  New West Theatre brings sharp humour, romance, and thin-wall farce to the Sterndale Bennett Theatre, just in time for Valentine’s Week. If you thought “the birds and the bees” was an awkward conversation best left to health class, think again. Just in time for Valentine’s Week, New West Theatre is ... Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald If there’s one word to describe Jadynn Morden as a hockey player, it would be fearless. The Lethbridge product is in her fifth and final season with the University of Alberta Pandas women’s hockey team. In 123 career games, Morden has registered 39 goals, 31 assists along with 180 penalty minutes. ... Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald For a young team like the Lethbridge Hurricanes, leadership has proven to be  especially important. Since arriving in Lethbridge, Kayden Longley has provided a calming presence for the Hurricanes both on the ice and in the dressing room. Longley was acquired via trade from the Kelowna Rockets in November in a ... Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald The house that was once full of boisterous energy has now gone eerily silent. 18-year-old Cameron Casorso, 18-year-old JJ Wright and 17-year-old Caden Fine were the three players for the Southern Alberta Mustangs who lost their lives in a car accident near Stavely last week. Casorso and Wright are from Kamloops, ... Read More »

From The Hill- MP Racheal Thomas   Half an hour.  That’s how long it took for Skye Atoa, a high-risk sex offender, to violate his release conditions after walking out of custody in Lethbridge. On January 13, Atoa was released on bail after being charged for human trafficking of minors and other sex-related offences. He ... Read More »

Next week marks four years since the University of Lethbridge began its Seinfeld job action. Seinfeld, as in the long-running television show that was famously about nothing. The job action was long-running as well: six weeks — among the longest work stoppages in Canadian post-secondary education. It was also extremely damaging. The U of L’s Canadian ... Read More »

Ken Moore For the Herald The current UCP government is not one which could be headed by Peter Lougheed. Their policies are anything but progressive. To understand the depth of the current identity crisis in Alberta politics, one must look back at the “Progressive” half of the Progressive Conservative dynasty that Lougheed built. For Lougheed, ... Read More »

Editor: Public Education has spent a lot of time in the spotlight here in Alberta over the past while.  All of us have memories of our own school years.  For some, these are pleasant memories; for others, they are times we would sooner forget.  My reality suggests that years of being a student is only ... Read More »

Editor, The University of Lethbridge had a controversial figure show up unannounced and uninvited on Wednesday with the express intent of causing a scene to post to her followers on social media. She spouted hateful, racist rhetoric under the guise of free speech. Students gathered in protest, utilizing their own free speech to drown out ... Read More »

Editor, Dear Alberta and America,  Another sleepless night, one more lonely adventure in contemplation. Searching for clarity through deep fog and challenging times. A couple of weeks ago Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech at Davos’ World Economic Forum. The speech has been heralded around the world as a chapter break in humanities anthology. ... Read More »