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asmith@medicinehatnews.com With spring weather seemingly finally here to stay comes a variety of plant life to the city’s green spaces, and the Medicine Hat Interpretive Program would like to invite residents to learn how to recognize them. May 1 will host the Budding Botanists Plant ID Walk, a free event available to the public. “We’re [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Friday saw Cypress County businesses, residents and representatives at the county office for the third annual Connections Luncheon. “The Cypress County Connections Luncheon is just a new one-hour event that’s for Cypress County and region, businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs to come in network,” said Beth Cash, economic development officer with Cypress County. Attendees were [...] Read More »

@@CollinGallant Municipal leaders in the province say there are more questions than answers one day after the provincial government moved to take a stronger hand in dealing with municipalities, allow political parties to act in major centre elections in 2025 and change other aspects of the Municipal Government Act. Mayors of Lethbridge, Calgary and Edmonton [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com The MH Interpretive Program invites residents to begin taking their first steps into the world of citizen science and become a scientist for a day with a free event in Police Point Park. The May 8 program will be an introduction to how everyday people can use the technology in our their pockets to [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation is launching this year’s Wildlife Baby Shower fundraiser on Sunday to coincide with the arrival of its first kit of the season. The animal in question, an orphaned red fox kit, found alone in Medicine Hat on Wednesday, marks the first of what AIWC says will be a [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Corporate boardrooms. Military barracks. Federal government offices. They’re not locales with a reputation for fostering diversity. Anita Anand has been trying to change that. Ensuring people of all backgrounds feel accepted and heard no matter the venue is a mission that has followed her at every stage in her life and career, she [...] Read More »

Montreal says public transit trips were up between 15 and 20 per cent among people age 65 and over in the six months after it made the service free for local seniors. The program, which took effect on July 1 of last year, offers residents who are 65 or older free fare for transit trips [...] Read More »

Montreal’s port authority says a man has died after an apparent accident at one of its wharves. Port of Montreal spokesperson Renée Larouche says the authority was notified of an accident involving a truck driver at the Viau shipping terminal northeast of downtown at around 2 p.m. on Friday. Police and emergency services were called [...] Read More »

LACHUTE, Que. – Quebec provincial police say a 51-year-old woman has died after a head-on collision in the town of Lachute, roughly 50 kilometres west of Montreal, early this morning. Police spokesperson Frédéric Deshaies says preliminary information suggests a vehicle heading west on Quebec highway 50 entered the oncoming traffic lane and hit the car [...] Read More »

CALGARY – The lawyer for a residential school survivor leading a proposed class-action defamation lawsuit against the Catholic Church over residential schools says the court action is a last resort. Maxime Faille, the lawyer for Sphenia Jones, says the goal is understanding – not money. “Sphenia is 80 years-old. She doesn’t care about money for [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Alberta’s government says a new draft social studies curriculum for elementary schools is ready to be tested in classrooms this fall. But the union representing teachers says the curriculum is a fail and the rollout needs to be delayed. The United Conservative Party government first tried three years ago to update the province’s [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Recent research suggested a truly horrifying thought – that T. Rex, perhaps the most fearsome predator to walk the earth, was also smart enough to use tools, hunt in packs and pass down knowledge. But a new paper throws cold water on those dinosaur fever dreams. A year ago, an American researcher published [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – Former Calgary mayor and current NDP leadership candidate Naheed Nenshi says the Alberta government is operating out of spite with new legislation that would grant it sweeping powers over municipalities, including the right to fire councillors, overturn bylaws and postpone elections. The proposed law would also allow political parties to run on [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – The first debate in the Alberta NDP leadership race was mostly a civil affair Thursday but it wasn’t all smooth sailing for former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi. Close to 500 people turned out at the Yates Theatre in Lethbridge to hear Nenshi, three current NDP members of the legislature: Calgary’s Kathleen Ganley [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – The Alberta government announced Thursday a new payment model that would allow nurse practitioners to make 80 per cent of what family doctors are paid. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said nurses eligible for the payment plan must commit to caring for 900 patients and operate their clinics on weekends, evenings and holidays. They [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Representatives of Alberta’s mid-sized municipalities will be meeting at City Hall next week to discuss common issues with crime, homelessness and other matters. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss challenges faced by communities in Alberta. The workshop, which is not open to the public, will be staged on May 2 from [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge West MLA Shannon Phillips and the Alberta NDP have come up with a plan to help Albertans tell Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party to keep their hands off the Canada Pension Plan. After engaging with thousands of Albertans through a multitude of town hall meetings across the province about [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man accused in connection to a three-year-old human trafficking case will likely resolve his charges when the matter returns to court next week. Calgary lawyer Leanndria Halcro said Friday in Lethbridge court of justice that her client, Chtewi Fadi, will resolve numerous sex-related charges with a peace bond during a court [...] Read More »

With spring upon us community members are excitingly rolling out their bicycles to get some outdoor exercise. However,with bike theft being high in Lethbridge Aaron Brown at Bert and Mac’s Source for Sports has some tips to deter bicycle thieves. “We want the (thieves) to realize that they want to move on to another bike [...] Read More »

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has taken over administration of the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award which was named after a Lethbridge teacher/librarian and awarded every year to a Canadian children’s title written for an elementary school-aged audience. The award comes with a $2,500 cash prize and goes to a work that exemplifies Chase’s “guiding [...] Read More »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Mayor Trent Staggs of Riverton, Utah, was selected Saturday as the state Republican Party’s nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. While the endorsement carried Staggs, 49, through the convention, his party support may not translate to [...] Read More »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – State Rep. Phil Lyman was selected as the Utah Republican Party’s gubernatorial nominee Saturday, though political observers say incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox remains the likely favorite in the upcoming primary. Lyman, a former county commissioner turned legislator, is best known for organizing an illegal ATV ride in 2014 in protest [...] Read More »

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet says 20 soldiers have been killed and several others injured in an ammunition explosion at a base in the west of the country on Saturday afternoon. Hun Manet said in a Facebook post that he was “deeply shocked” when he received the news of the [...] Read More »

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Injuries were reported but it wasn’t yet clear if anyone was killed in the storm. Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the [...] Read More »

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) – A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests. Jeremy Cooper faced up to three years in prison. He administered a dose of the sedative ketamine [...] Read More »