Lethbridge Herald Newspaper Canada is the leading daily newspaper in greater Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It is owned by Alta Newspaper Group and also publishes and distributes two weekly newspapers, the Lethbridge Journal and Lethbridge Sun Times.On 8 November 1905, Fred E. Simpson and A.S. Bennett — both from Cranbrook, British Columbia — published the first issue of the Lethbridge Weekly Herald. The paper started in a building on what is now Fifth Street South.[2]
Shortly after the launch of the Weekly Herald, William Ashbury Buchanan bought a half interest in the paper, and by the end of 1906 was its sole owner. Buchanan came from a newspaper career in Ontario and managed a staff of six and circulation of 300 within the first year. On 11 December 1907, he had introduced a daily paper titled the Lethbridge Daily Herald. The weekly continued as a separate paper until 1950.