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asmith@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat and southern Alberta as a whole were well represented this year at the ASTech Awards, held Nov. 7 in Calgary. The awards celebrate outstanding achievement in science and technology innovation in Alberta in a variety of fields, and aim to inspire ongoing innovation within the province. At the 2025 awards, three Medicine ... Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Two provincial commissioners have released findings into a wide-scale cyberattack which breached a third-party cloud platform called PowerSchool, used by the Medicine Hat Public School Division and Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education at the beginning of 2025. On Tuesday, the Alberta and Ontario privacy commissioners, who issued separate investigations under a co-ordinated memorandum ... Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Throughout 2024 and 2025 the Medicine Hat Women’s Shelter Society helped 565 adults and 185 kids impacted by family violence despite ongoing renovations to the new Phoenix Safe House, which officially reopened its doors in September. Executive director Natasha Carvalho told city councillors Monday that the MHWSS will continue to advocate for funding from ... Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Willie Desjardins will have a familiar face on the CHL’s roster for the CHL USA Prospects Challenge next week. Medicine Hat Tigers forward Liam Ruck was named to the CHL roster in place of the injured Brooks Rogowski of the Oshawa Generals. “It’s unreal, obviously something you dream of doing and I’m super excited ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U16B Mustangs returned home golden from a tournament in Lethbridge. The Mustangs finished first at the Lethbridge Bridge Battle ringette tournament, finishing a perfect 4-0. They opened the tournament with a 9-8 win against Buffalo Plains. Breanna Lanuk led the way with a hat trick and an assist while Margo Kerr ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Medicine Hat News The Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club hosted their annual Fall Invitational swim meet over the weekend. The local swim club had 50 AMAC swimmers compete at the event hosted at the Big Marble Go Centre, competing against eight visiting clubs. AMAC swimmers set multiple personal bests and club records across different age ... Read More »

Our government’s Acute Care Action Plan represents decisive action to strengthen Alberta’s health-care system. With 1,000 new hospital beds, 50,000 additional relief funding of $1.5 million, this comprehensive strategy addresses urgent pressures while building for the future. While headlines focus on new towers at Edmonton and Calgary hospitals, the real story for rural Alberta is ... Read More »

Three cheers to Zohran Mamdani for toppling a political dynasty to become the mayor-elect of New York. Mamdani’s decisive victory in the mayoral race broke records in more ways than one. For a long time, the working people of New York have been neglected politically by the wealthy and well-connected. New York voters elected a ... Read More »

The name game in Alberta politics is getting nasty. Two disgruntled former caucus members of the United Conservative Party recently joined forces with the middle-of-the-road Alberta Party and decided to call the new entity the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. Hey, said the UCP brass. You can’t do that. We still own the Progressive Conservative name. ... Read More »

Dear editor, As all of us know, (Monday was) Remembrance Day. As many of us do not know, the Government of Canada estimates veterans at risk or experiencing homelessness to be approximately 2,600. Other reports suggest the number could be up to 10,000. There are extreme data challenges in calculating these numbers, perhaps because most ... Read More »

Dear editor, I am writing to you today as a former and proud student of Webster Niblock Elementary School. Webster Niblock was vitally important in shaping the person I am today and providing the foundational education that prepared me for my life’s work. I have just celebrated my 25th year of teaching, a career path ... Read More »

Dear editor, Three important problems directly leading to the teachers’ strike are exclusively of the UCP’s own making. Firstly, they brag about attracting new people to Alberta but seem unable to comprehend that more new people means more new students. Alberta spends the least amount of money on public education in Canada, per student, thus, ... Read More »