March 19th, 2024

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Local News

  • Monday in Medicine Hat, March 18

    Medicine Hat News Tigers spilt weekend with shorthanded lineup The Medicine Hat Tigers found success against the Swift Current Broncos with a depleted lineup. After an 8-4 loss Friday in Swift Current, the Tigers bounced back with a 4-2 win Saturday at Co-op Place in front of 4,528 fans. Both games they had only 15 [...] Read More »

    1 day ago
  • Medicine Hat Fire ready to brave elements for yearly fundraiser

    ANNA SMITH asmith@medicinehatnews.com Local Journalism Initiative reporter Medicine Hat Firefighters are preparing for their annual rooftop campout as they are ready to fill some boots and show their support for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. From March 22 to 24, five firefighters will spend the weekend on the roof of Fire Station 2, all as part of [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Several approved projects not included in provincial renewables map

    cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A new map of zones where wind and solar proposals would face a “visual impact review” covers wide portions of Southeast Alberta, but captures very few proposed projects that aren’t already approved to be built. That includes an additional 100 turbine towers north of the Cypress Hills, whole sections of solar panel arrays south [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Upgrades complete on local national weather radar system

    @MedicineHatNews Upgrades to the national weather radar system, including a station near Medicine Hat, are complete, the federal Environment and Climate Change ministry announced Friday. The last of 33 stations was brought online recently on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia after the entire $83-million program was announced in 2017 to expand coverage, produce better [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • NCC seeks to purchase intact grasslands to help save sage grouse

    asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Nature Conservancy of Canada has started a new initiative to purchase a 635-hectare property southeast of Medicine Hat, to preserve habitat for the endangered sage grouse. The property, known as Sagebrush Flats, is located near Manyberries, and is known to have grouse residing there, said communications coordinator Sean Feagan. “It’s probably one of [...] Read More »

    3 days ago

National News

  • Young Canadian workers feel isolated and lonely, TELUS Health finds

    TELUS Health has released its Mental Health Index today, with reports that examine the mental health of employed people in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. The report reveals that young Canadian workers under 40 are increasingly feeling isolated and lonely compared to their older colleagues. Forty-five per [...] Read More »

    6 hours ago
  • In the news today: Public tribute to Mulroney in Ottawa, February inflation report

    Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… Public to pay tribute to Mulroney in Ottawa Members of the public who wish to pay tribute to Brian Mulroney can visit his casket in Ottawa starting this afternoon. The former [...] Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • B.C. auditor to release reports on overdose prevention, safer-supply programs

    VICTORIA – British Columbia’s auditor general is expected to release two independent audits on government programs aimed at curbing the death toll from the toxic drug crisis. Michael Pickup’s office has conducted reports on the government’s overdose prevention and supervised consumption services and the first phase of the prescribed safer-supply implementation. The safer-supply program has [...] Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • As former prime minister Mulroney lies in state, public tributes in Ottawa begin

    OTTAWA – Members of the public who wish to pay tribute to Brian Mulroney can visit his casket in Ottawa starting this afternoon. The former prime minister’s casket is being brought to the Sir John A. Macdonald building opposite Parliament Hill this morning. Dignitaries including the Governor General and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are set [...] Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • ‘The lost season’: Winter comes to a close as Canada’s warmest on record

    The warmest winter on record could have far-reaching effects on everything from wildfire season to erosion, climatologists say, while offering a preview of what the season could resemble in the not-so-distant future unless steps are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Winter comes to a close on Tuesday night ““ early Wednesday on Canada’s East [...] Read More »

    7 hours ago

Provincial News

Southern Alberta News

  • Police launch enforcement operation downtown

    LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge Police Service enforcement project downtown has resulted in the arrests of 13 people, the execution of 37 warrants and the seizure of 350 street doses of fentanyl. Police also caught an apprehended an impaired driver and issued nine violation tickets – all on the first day of the operation that will [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Union caught off-guard by police plan

    LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The union representing Alberta Sheriffs was caught blind-sided by the announcement on Wednesday that the Alberta government was creating a new policing agency. Bobbi-Jo Borodey, vice president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, says the union doesn’t know what kind of impact it will have on the Sheriffs, including on their roles, [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Man stabbed after allegedly propositioning woman

    LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A man who may have propositioned a woman downtown late last year, got more than he bargained for. Police received a report about 7 p.m. on Dec. 11 that two people with knives were chasing a man on 6 Street near 3 Avenue South. Police found the man suffering from a minor stab [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • City shelter dogs given more room to romp

    Community Animal Services has opened a new fenced dog run at its animal shelter in north Lethbridge. When city councillor John Middleton-Hope – who until April 1 serves in capacity as acting mayor – and his granddaughter Ambreah Kelly got involved in volunteering to walk dogs at the shelter, upon visiting it they noticed a [...] Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Blood Reserve man sent to prison for violent home invasion and robbery

    LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com One of several masked and armed men who burst into a motel room in a home-invasion-style robbery late last year has been sent to a federal penitentiary. Charles William Good Striker, 37, was sentenced to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty Friday in Lethbridge court of justice to a single charge [...] Read More »

    3 days ago

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