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 agoANNA 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 agocgallant@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@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 agoasmith@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 agoTELUS 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 agoHere 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 agoVICTORIA – 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 agoOTTAWA – 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 agoThe 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 agoCALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Alex Ovechkin scored twice and became the third player in NHL history to have at least 20 goals in 19 consecutive seasons as the Washington Capitals beat the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Monday night. The 38-year-old Ovechkin had two power-play goals in the second period as Washington won its third straight [...] Read More »
11 hours agoCALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Alex Ovechkin scored twice and became the third player in NHL history to have at least 20 goals in 19 consecutive seasons as the Washington Capitals beat the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Monday night. The 38-year-old Ovechkin had two power-play goals in the second period as Washington won its third straight [...] Read More »
11 hours agoAlberta’s health minister says proper procedures were followed when a stroke patient who, for his long-term recovery, was shipped to a motel where his wheelchair didn’t fit and he was fed fast food. “I was very concerned when I heard about this situation and I did talk to Alberta Health Services,” Adriana LaGrange told the [...] Read More »
16 hours agoEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) – Artturi Lehkonen scored with one second remaining in overtime and the Colorado Avalanche battled their way to their sixth straight win, 3-2 over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. Nathan MacKinnon sent the puck across to a hard-charging Lehkonen, who scored his 12th of the season. With the assist, MacKinnon extended [...] Read More »
2 days agoCALGARY – Some residents of an east Calgary neighbourhood who had to stay away for more than 24 hours because of an armed standoff have been allowed to return home. Police said late Friday that there was “no longer a threat to public safety” in Penbrooke Meadows, though officers would be remaining in the area [...] Read More »
3 days agoLETHBRIDGE 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 agoLETHBRIDGE 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 agoLETHBRIDGE 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 agoCommunity 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 agoLETHBRIDGE 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 agoAn attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C. Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her for disseminating confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems, the [...] Read More »
14 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is expected to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate [...] Read More »
17 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Monday extended its block on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. Opponents have called the law, known as Senate Bill 4, the most dramatic attempt [...] Read More »
18 hours agoCLEVELAND (AP) – An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of parole. Kristel Candelario, 32, had pleaded guilty last month to aggravated murder and child endangerment as [...] Read More »
18 hours agoALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – An Afghan refugee was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed faces life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, 2022. He also will stand trial in the coming months in [...] Read More »
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