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A busy Third Street SE intersection was reopened Thursday after a summer of construction. The intersection of Third Street and Fifth Avenue reopened in the evening as the Third Street downtown utility and surface upgrades project remains on schedule and nears the next stage, the city says. Traffic on the 400 block of Third Street [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com The “magic money” system used by West Coast Amusements during its visit to the city as part of the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede has been met with a mixed reception. The system replaces the handling of cash at all games and food stands that come with WCA. While debit and credit cards are [...] Read More »

@@CollinGallant The worsening wildfire situation that forced the evacuation of Jasper caused Premier Danielle Smith to cancel a number of appearances Thursday at the Medicine Hat Stampede. The Brooks-Medicine Hat MLA was scheduled to be the honorary parade marshal in Thursday morning’s Medicine Hat Stampede parade, give an address to the Stampede president’s lunch on [...] Read More »

@MedicineHatNews The Hat was the hottest spot in the province Wednesday as temperatures climbed to 38.3C at 6 p.m. that day, and not far behind was Irvine (38C) and Seven Persons (38.1C), according to Environment Canada. Medicine Hat just missed setting a new record for July 24, set in 2023 at 38.9C. Heavy heat blanketed [...] Read More »

news@medicinehatnews.com Gas prices in Medicine Hat are climbing as some stations are charging more than $1.64 per litre. According to GasBuddy.com the cheapest place to fill up in the city is $1.49.9 per litre at the pumps of Costco, but only for members. Gas King, located at 642 Kingsway Ave., is three cents higher at [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER – Fisheries and Oceans Canada says it has successfully untangled fishing gear on a humpback whale off British Columbia’s coast that was first spotted by a ferry passenger. Paul Cottrell, the department’s marine mammal co-ordinator, says a rescue team found the whale off Texada Island after the ferry passenger called it in on Thursday, [...] Read More »

In Wells, B.C., there’s relief as residents return to the community after a nearby wildfire forced its evacuation last weekend, the district’s mayor said. But Ed Coleman said it’s tempered by a “sense of caution” that the reprieve may only be temporary as crews continue to battle the nearby 142-square-kilometre Antler Creek blaze in the [...] Read More »

The lawyer for a former judge whose claims to be Cree were questioned in a CBC investigation says his client is not considering legal action against the broadcaster after the Law Society of British Columbia this week backed her claims of Indigenous heritage. Instead, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond wants to “get on with her life,” lawyer [...] Read More »

HINTON, ALBERTA, CANADA – One-third of all structures in the townsite of Jasper are gone, burned to the ground in this week’s wildfire, officials confirmed Friday. Premier Danielle Smith says there are 1,113 structures in the picturesque Rocky Mountain resort community. She said Wednesday night’s wildfire destroyed 358 of them and damaged seven more. The [...] Read More »

HINTON, ALBERTA, CANADA – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says updated numbers show one-third of all structures in the Jasper townsite were burned or destroyed in this week’s wildfire. The structures were homes and businesses. Parks Canada says out of more than 1,100 structures in the town, 358 were hit by the fires. Smith says critical [...] Read More »

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Lauren Coughlin shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday in chilly and windy conditions to take the first-round lead in the CPKC Women’s Open. Fellow American Jennifer Kupcho was a stroke back with Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand and Australians Minjee Lee and Hannah Green. Coughlin opened the round that began on No. [...] Read More »

CALGARY – Alice Varshavska didn’t expect this to happen again. Two years ago, she fled war-torn Ukraine seeking a better life. She found it in Jasper, Alta. But the 26-year-old restaurant server was forced to flee the picturesque Rocky Mountain tourist town as wildfires encroached on Monday night. On Thursday, she found herself registering at [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – In a heated courtroom exchange, a man accused of conspiring to murder police at the 2022 Coutts, Alta., blockade rejected accusations he and others brought weapons and body armour to the barricade to start a war. “Coutts to you was going to be a launchpad for a revolution,” prosecutor Steven Johnston said [...] Read More »

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) – The Edmonton Oilers hired Stan Bowman as general manager and executive vice president of hockey operations on Wednesday, making him the first former Chicago Blackhawks executive re-hired by an NHL team since the team’s 2010 sexual assault scandal came to light in recent years. The league reinstated Bowman, coach Joel Quenneville [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – One of two men charged with conspiring to murder RCMP officers at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade two years ago will return to the witness stand for a third straight day. Under cross-examination by the Crown yesterday, Chris Carbert said that he paid $5,000 for the Panther A-15 rifle found under his [...] Read More »

Residents of Lethbridge can view the beautiful city at new heights with a hot air balloon experience from Kiss the Sky Balloons. Hot air ballooning has around since 1783, longer than both cars and planes. Brant Leatherdale, owner of Kiss the Sky Balloons, says the experience of Ballooning is unlike any other. “It’s unlike any [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge judge has refused to release from custody a 34-year-old man charged in relation to a stabbing in the city last month. Christopher David Smith had hoped to make bail last week, but following a bail hearing Friday in Lethbridge court of justice, Justice Erin Olsen adjourned her decision for several days. [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Governance Standing Policy Committee of city council on Thursday was provided with an update on the City’s physician shortage action plan. It was asked to recommend council direct administration to report back on the activities and outcomes of the plan to the SPC in the first quarter of 2025. The SPC consists [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com City council on Tuesday voted to approve the updated municipal housing strategy as a guiding document. On July 11, a motion to have council support it was defeated by a 4-4 at the meeting of the Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee, which consists of all council members. Deputy mayor Jeff Carlson was [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com This week marked National Drowning Prevention Week (NDPW) and July 25 was designated as World Drowning Prevention Day by the World Health Organization. The Cor Van Raay YMCA of Lethbridge hosted their inaugural Swim for [Y]our Safety swim-a-thon to bring awareness to drowning prevention. Jillian Johnston, aquatic manager for the YMCA of Lethbridge, [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI said former President Donald Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet during an assassination attempt on July 13, as the agency moved Friday to clarify what happened after nearly two weeks of confusion and conflicting accounts. In a statement issued Friday evening, the FBI said “what struck former [...] Read More »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah officials denied clemency Friday to a man who is set to be executed for the stabbing death of his girlfriend’s mother in 1998. Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 8. During a two-day commutation hearing, Honie asked the state parole board to commute his [...] Read More »

A tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading across several Western states has been found, and the pilot on board is dead, authorities said Friday. A Grant County Search and Rescue team located the aircraft Friday morning and confirmed the death, said Lisa Clark, a Bureau of [...] Read More »

A single-pilot tanker plane disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading across several Western states, and the search has come up empty so far, authorities said Friday. The plane went missing Thursday while fighting the Falls Fire, near the town of Seneca on the edge of the Malheur National Forest. [...] Read More »

More than 130 structures have been destroyed and thousands more remain threatened by California’s largest active wildfire days after a man was seen ditching a burning car, authorities said. The Park Fire started Wednesday when a man pushed a burning car into a gully in Chico and then calmly blended in with others fleeing the [...] Read More »