Medicine Hat News A Medicine Hat man was killed Sunday night after a highway collision between his motorcycle and an SUV near Redcliff. RCMP in the town and the Redcliff Fire Department say they responded to the crash, east of Boundary Road at 5:13 p.m on Oct. 27. The 66-year-old operator of the motorcycle was [...] Read More »
22 hours agoasmith@medicinehatnews.com Over the past two days, business owners from Medicine Hat and beyond have been learning what sorts of possibilities lay within Alberta’s southeast corner, at the 2024 Economic Growth Forum. Put on by Community Futures Entre-Corp, the forum was a day and a half of various panel discussions from local and travelling experts, touching [...] Read More »
3 days agoasmith@medicinehatnews.com The Palliser chapter of Friends of Medicare’s Annual General Meeting in early November, will focus largely on continuing changes to the province’s health-care system. The local chapter, as well as Friends of Medicare at large, is concerned with sweeping changes to how Albertans receive medical care, something executive director Chris Gallaway intends to speak [...] Read More »
3 days agobmiller@medicinehatnews.com The inspirations behind a group of masks, part of a college art exhibition celebrating Halloween, comes in part from old Japanese folklore as well as a more recent horror movie/series classic. Art and design students at Medicine Hat College were given free reign to explore their inner dark side to create spine-tingling artwork, from [...] Read More »
3 days ago@MedicineHatNews The construction time table for a major solar field near Medicine Hat has been extended two years by regulators, who also certified the project fits under newly imposed agricultural-use and remediation guidelines. “Dunmore Solar” was first approved by the Alberta Utilities Commission in 2021, and was to be built by March 2025 near the [...] Read More »
3 days agoREGINA – The Saskatchewan Party won a majority government in Monday’s provincial election, sending Scott Moe back to the premier’s office. Here’s a look at the party leader: Scott Moe, Saskatchewan Party Age: 51. Born July 31, 1973, in Prince Albert, Sask. Early years: Grew up the oldest of five children on a grain farm [...] Read More »
7 hours agoREGINA – Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party won another majority government in the province’s general election on Monday. Here’s a look at the provincial governments over the last five decades: New Democrats, 1971-78 The NDP and leader Allan Blakeney, a former cabinet minister under Tommy Douglas, defeated Ross Thatcher’s Liberals in 1971. Blakeney and the NDP [...] Read More »
7 hours agoPremier Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party won a fifth consecutive majority government Monday, losing in the big cities but retaining its iron grip on rural areas to secure victory. Moe’s party was shut out by Carla Beck’s NDP in Regina and lost all but two seats in Saskatoon. But it found enough support everywhere [...] Read More »
7 hours agoPremier Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party won a fifth consecutive majority government Monday, losing in the big cities but retaining its iron grip on rural areas to secure victory. Moe’s party was shut out by Carla Beck’s NDP in Regina and was losing in all but one seat in Saskatoon in early returns. But [...] Read More »
8 hours agoThe Canadian Press is projecting that the Saskatchewan Party has won a majority government in the provincial election. Premier Scott Moe has won his second election as party leader. More coming[...] Read More »
8 hours agoFAUST, Alta. – Two people are dead and at least six others were injured after police say a semi truck crossed the centre line of a highway and collided with a group of motorcycles in northern Alberta. RCMP say members from the detachment in Faust, Alta., responded to a report of the crash on Highway [...] Read More »
2 months agoGRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – Police say a fire that followed a break-in at a hangar in northwestern Alberta is estimated to have caused millions of dollars worth of damage, and a man who they allege was trying to flee the scene has been charged with arson. RCMP say the blaze northwest of Grande Prairie on [...] Read More »
2 months agoWETASKIWIN, Alta. – A 15-year-old boy is dead after RCMP officers shot him during a confrontation south of Edmonton. Wetaskiwin RCMP say they received a report at about 12:30 a.m. from the boy, a resident of Samson Cree Nation, who had called 911 and said people were following him and trying to kill him. About [...] Read More »
2 months agoCALGARY – Calgarians who are watering their lawns can expect to get tickets in the coming days. The city is reporting another day of higher-than-allowed water use since rationing rules came into effect Monday. Outdoor watering is banned and residents are being urged to cut their use indoors until a major water main is fixed. [...] Read More »
2 months agoEDMONTON – Alberta’s first-quarter fiscal update shows the government expects a surplus of $2.9 billion but won’t have surplus cash in the short term and will need to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars. Finance Minister Nate Horner said it’s an accounting surplus, meaning the money is tied up, so in the meantime the province [...] Read More »
2 months agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com An Alberta Bill of Rights is among 13 pieces of legislation the provincial government will be introducing in the fall session of the Alberta legislature which begins on Monday. The province’s list of bills also addresses gender affirming actions and transgender athletes. Government House Leader and Minister of Tourism and Sport Joseph Schow [...] Read More »
3 days agoThe UCP government has been working at a frenzied pace, which some believe is causing more chaos for Albertans. This was the topic for this week’s Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs meeting Thursday in the dining room of the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization. Jason Foster, director of Parkland Institute at University of Alberta and [...] Read More »
3 days agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Members of the Lethbridge Police Service on Halloween will be busy handing treats at their second annual Trunk or Treat Event. Constable Christian Olsen, a K-9 handler with LPS, said Friday morning that the inaugural event last year attracted between 800-900 youngsters. Police, with decorated vehicles, will be at the Nicholas Sheran boat [...] Read More »
3 days agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The first master plan in the history of the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden has been completed and on Thursday the Governance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council offered council recommendations on how to address it. The SPC consists of councillors Belinda Crowson, John Middleton-Hope, Jenn Schmidt-Rempel and Acting Mayor Jeff Carlson. The [...] Read More »
3 days agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Saipoyi Community School in Standoff, welcomed their students’ family and friends on Friday to enjoy a theatre production that was in the making all week, “Living Legends of Old.” The school was divided into 10 groups, two in each grade and every group was in charge one performance where they would act [...] Read More »
3 days agoBEIJING (AP) – A bus crashed into a group of students in eastern China on Tuesday, killing or injuring at least 10, state media reported. The students were waiting at the gate of a middle school in Tai’an city in Shandong province shortly after 7 a.m., Xinhua news agency said. The bus was specially customized [...] Read More »
2 months agoCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of a disputed election. The warrant was issued at the request of authorities who accuse González, a former diplomat, of various crimes including conspiracy, falsifying [...] Read More »
2 months agoCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan authorities on Monday sought an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González, just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of a disputed election that his opponents say he lost. The prosecutor seeking the warrant in its request to a judge focused [...] Read More »
2 months agoCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan authorities on Monday sought an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González, just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of a disputed election that his opponents say he lost. The prosecutor seeking the warrant in its request to a judge focused [...] Read More »
2 months agoCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan authorities on Monday sought an arrest warrant for opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González, just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the disputed election that his opponents say he lost. The prosecutor seeking the warrant in its request cites various charges against González, a [...] Read More »
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