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asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Town of Redcliff is kicking off the Holiday Season with a tree lighting and parade this Friday. In collaboration with Redcliff FCSS, the Redcliff Youth Centre and White Dragon Karate, the town will have their Santa Claus Parade and ceremony that evening. The parade will begin at 6 p.m. on Broadway Street at ... Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Last week, director Jennifer Davies told the News that she was proud of the performers for Beetlejuice Jr. She absolutely should be. The cast at Crescent Heights High School is clearly both talented and passionate about the one-hour production, which shows in every scene regardless of who is on stage. The atmosphere is overwhelmingly ... Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com To help ensure the streets stay safe this Christmas season members of the Medicine Hat Police Traffic Unit will be increasing check stops throughout December. Police say motorists can expect to see an increased officer presence this month and have plans to announce check stops publicly that are scheduled to run between Dec. 13-21. ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Breakfast is an essential start to the day but consecutive shutouts kicked off a winning road trip for SAHA’s U18 women’s team. The South Alberta Hockey Academy’s women’s team started their weekend with a pair of shutouts, the second half of four consecutive shutout wins. They blanked Balmoral Hall School 3-0 on Thursday before ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Canadian Baseball League released their schedule for the 2026 summer season. Opening Day will take place Thursday, May 28 with five games across two provinces. The Medicine Hat Mavericks will host the defending champion Regina Red Sox at Athletic Park. Other East Division season openers include the Moose Jaw Miller Express visiting ... Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb After a slow start to November, the Medicine Hat Tigers ended the year’s penultimate month with momentum. They lost the first four games of November, two defeats coming in an overtime and shootout, before rattling off a 6-0-1-1 record as they carry a four-game win streak into tonight’s contest with the Prince Albert Raiders. ... Read More »

Premier Danielle Smith’s lovefest with Prime Minister Mark Carney leading to last week’s memorandum of understanding regarding pipeline construction from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast apparently didn’t go over well with much of the party faithful at the weekend’s AGM of the United Conservative Party. As the premier talked to the crowd in Edmonton about ... Read More »

While in Toronto for a work-related conference, I attended a presentation that talked about loneliness and its impact on Canadians. According to the YMCA Connections Snapshot from August 2025, “Only 4 in 10 Canadians surveyed feel a sense of connection and belonging in their community.” They go on to say ur young people are reporting ... Read More »

We receive a lot of questions about Artificial Intelligence focused companies. Specifically, whether the U.S. stock market is in an AI bubble akin to what occurred in the late 1990’s with the dotcom bubble. Our answer is nuanced as one never knows with 100% certainty if they’re in an investment bubble until after the bubble ... Read More »

Dear editor, The Alberta Government is trying to sell us a Pig in a Poke with its “Surgical Initiatives” and “Urgent Care Centres.” Our hospitals already have underused surgical suites because of not enough medical staff. Dr. Paul Parks (previous president of the Alberta Medical Association and Medicine Hat ER Physician) has said the Medicine ... Read More »

* Submitted before Wednesday’s strike announcement Dear editor, As Alberta inches closer to another union versus government negotiation, the UCP “tactical misinformation machine” is revving up and shifting to high gear. I speak of course of the looming dispute between AUPE’s nursing care union and the Alberta government, including the erroneous statements made by Finance ... Read More »

Dear editor, Quebec has abundant hydro power (electricity) and Alberta has abundant natural gas. During a recent relatively minor snow storm, electric power was out in large areas of Quebec. Many homes and businesses lost electric power. Forty-six thousand homes were still without power a few days later. Heating, refrigerators, deep freezers, lighting etc. were ... Read More »