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Analog Books has announced a local student as the winner of its inaugural Analog Prize. In celebration of excellent short stories fiction writing at secondary school level in southern Alberta, Analog Books presented the top prize of $500 sponsored by the University of Lethbridge chancellor Terry Whitehead to Stevie Sander a student at Catholic Central ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com A report will be presented to the Assets and Infrastructure Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council this afternoon on bicycle lanes. The presentation will be made by transportation engineer Adam St. Amant. The SPC consists of chair and acting mayor Mark Campbell, vice-chair Nick Paladino, deputy mayor Jeff Carlson and Ryan Parker. ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 27-year-old Fort Macleod man being investigated for driving a stolen truck managed to throw police off the scent, but not for very long. Police were called to the Chinook Regional Hospital in March where an employee told them Robert Harry Taggart was visiting his father. She said Taggart had told her on ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Rocky Mountain Turf Club will open the gates to a new horse racing season on Saturday. RMTC held a press conference on Wednesday to give some details on what the season will look like. “We’re really enthused,” said Max Gibb, RMTC CEO. “We open on Kentucky Derby day, we’re ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Tanner McLachlan’s dream of playing professional football  became reality at the NFL draft over the weekend. The local tight end was picked in the sixth round at 194th overall  out of the University of Arizona by the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday. “Super special,” said McLachlan, during an interview prior to ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Raymond Comets varsity girls rugby head coach, Dan Bikman’s, focus every year is to help the kids experience life lessons in sport and that is no different this spring. “We teach them to work, we teach them to work together as a team, we teach them to kind of deal ... Read More »

AT THE LEGISLATURE Shannon Phillips – NDP MLA for Lethbridge West In May I will celebrate nine years since my first election as the MLA for Lethbridge-West.  This work has been an honour like no other. I have met so many Lethbridgeans and feel like I have watched your children grow and your flower gardens ... Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – managing editor Eight months from tomorrow I’ll be working my last shift in journalism after 44.5 years. It seems just like yesterday I loaded up my portable typewriter, clothes and a set of weights into the trunk of a two-door Chevy Caprice and pulled away from my dad’s ... Read More »

Al Beeber Managing Editor How important are volunteers to a community? In Lethbridge, more than half of residents do volunteer work and the average is 90 hours per year, contributing $135 million annually to the local economy. That information comes from Amanda Jensen, executive director of Volunteer Lethbridge who spoke to The Herald’s Alejandra Pulido-Guzman ... Read More »

Editor: We must do something about cats to effectively stop the killing of wild birds. Their numbers are dropping at an alarming rate. Domestic cats in North America killed two billion wild birds in 2023, several of which were in my garden.  I find it ironic that dogs must be licensed, leashed, and picked up ... Read More »

Editor: The Canadian Press demonstrated either its ignorance or its bias in the news story headlined “Premier stands by pick of ‘contrarian’ chair to lead COVID data review” in the April 24 edition of the Lethbridge Herald. The story’s second-last paragraph states: “Smith questioned the mainstream science approach to the pandemic and endorsed debunked COVID-19 ... Read More »

Editor: A month or so ago, I just finished reading a book, “The Oldman River Dam Building a future for southern Alberta.” Ken Kowalsky, Alberta’s previous Public Works minister said at the time of the dam’s completion “that all our water problems will be solved now with the completion of this dam.” I would like ... Read More »