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@@CollinGallant The City of Medicine Hat could be hampered in a quest to lure artificial intelligence hubs by limited natural gas supply, city energy officials told the News, as well as the scope of projects that would dwarf the city’s current electrical plant. That might be counterintuitive for the “Gas City” but has been increasingly [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com To help support the City of Brooks and its growing population of newcomers, the province is investing $150,000 to the Global Village Centre’s John Ware Youth Empowerment Program. Last year, Brooks had the fourth highest percentage of newcomers in Alberta, welcoming 925 new permanent residents. As they adjust to life in a new place, [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com One of the only spots of colour in the dead of winter, the Medicine Hat Interpretive Program is inviting residents to take a closer look at the exciting world of evergreens. “We will be talking about evergreen trees and shrubs. What makes them special, what role they play in our environment, their introduction to [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Young adults looking for kinship and support with their neurodivergence are encouraged to make their way to the Medicine Hat Public Library on Saturday morning. Run by peers who also have autistic, ADHD and other neurodivergences, and with the support of members of the Medicine Hat Autism Society, these meetings are a safe place [...] Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com A full house of Hatters reached deep into their wallets Thursday night at DayzOff Pub during the 33rd annual Medicine Hat News Santa Claus Fund Charity Auction. Numbers were still being counted throughout the day Friday, however SCF executive director Deanna Doerksen says more than $40,000 was raised for the charity through live and [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER – BC Hydro says it is making progress by restoring power for about 170,000 customers on the West Coast as high winds batter the province. Environment Canada warned Saturday morning that the Metro Vancouver area could be hit with 70-kilometre-per-hour winds and gusts of up to 100 kilometres per hour as a low-pressure system [...] Read More »

SQUAMISH, B.C. – The Sea to Sky Highway linking Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., has been closed in both directions after a mudslide near Lions Bay brought down trees and debris to block the road. The RCMP in Squamish, B.C., says the road is not expected to reopen until midnight and no detours are available. It [...] Read More »

MONTREAL – One of the world’s smallest and most endangered turtle species was found on the shores Quebec’s Magdalen Islands last week ““ a first in the province. Veterinarian Jean-Simon Richard says he was contacted last Saturday after someone found a beached Kemp’s ridley sea turtle on the archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. [...] Read More »

CFB SUFFIELD, ALBERTA – A sprawling military training base more than twice the size of New York City in southeastern Alberta appears to be a shadow of its former self while its future use remains up in the air. Canadian Forces Base Suffield, 260 kilometres east of Calgary, is the largest training area in Canada [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – The RCMP’s police dog training centre has been plagued by staffing shortages, low morale and rundown facilities that pose health risks to officers and canines, an internal review says. The evaluation of RCMP police dog services reveals numerous challenges for the program that supplies and trains four-legged helpers to protect VIPs, support emergency [...] Read More »

FAUST, 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 »

GRANDE 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 »

WETASKIWIN, 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 »

CALGARY – 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 »

EDMONTON – 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 »

Teachers Kevin McBeath of Winston Churchill High School, Danielle Gareau of Lethbridge Collegiate Institute (LCI), and Derek Resler of Wilson Middle School, spoke at Thursday’s session of the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs on how to get public education on track. Alberta spends the least on public education out of any other province in [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Various organizations gathered at Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre this week to visit their annual Sock Mountain and take what they needed for their clients. After collecting socks for the last month though Sock It To ‘Em with the help of schools and by donations dropped off at the centre, Nord-Bridge opened its doors Thursday [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Holiday Smile cookie campaign will be putting grins on a lot of faces. The week-long campaign that ran from Nov. 18-24 raised $37,827.92. Half of that money will go to support Tim Hortons Foundations Camps while the other half is going to support Green Shirt Day, the Logan Boulet Endowment Fund at [...] Read More »

Downtown Lawlessness Reduction Task Force Committee members met at City Hall on Thursday morning and discussed a Governance Standing Policy Committee recommendation to have it disbanded. In attendance were city council members, Downtown BRZ members, a representative of The Lethbridge Police Service, a representative of The Lethbridge Fire and EMS Service, The Director of Community [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Canada Post strike is taking a significant financial toll on the Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation in Coaldale. Typically, 75 per cent of the Foundation’s annual donations arrive by mail between late November and Dec. 31. But with more than half of the critical Christmas donation period already over, contributions have plummeted [...] Read More »

BEIJING (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 »

CARACAS, 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 »

CARACAS, 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 »

CARACAS, 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 »

CARACAS, 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 »