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newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com New energy-efficient lighting upgrades have recently been completed at the Medalta Potteries and the South Ridge YMCA Recreation Centre as energy conservation work around Medicine Hat continues. On Tuesday the city reported crews upgraded a total of 312 fixtures and retrofitted 408 fluorescent tubes with LED technology at both locations, expected to reduce electricity [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com In 2025 Medicine Hat Fire and Emergency Services identified the city’s top five collision-prone intersections and provided motorists with simple tips to stay safe on the roadways. Of the five top collision intersections, four connect to the Trans-Canada Highway – 13th Avenue SE, College Avenue, 16th Street SW and Dunmore Road. The intersection at [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat Tigers fans came together and raised more than $4,700 for this year’s annual rooftop campout in support of Muscular Dystrophy Canada during the final home game against the Red Deer Rebels. Each year firefighters brave the outdoor elements and camp out on the roof of Station No. 2 to support Muscular Dystrophy [...] Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com As part of this year’s emergency management plan the city will conduct several training programs and exercises for staff to ensure proper functioning systems and processes that allow collaboration between departments and community partners during large-scale emergencies. On Tuesday, members of the emergency advisory committee were provided a detailed presentation of work the department [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Cypress County has elected not to return to a monthly viewing of accounts payable by council. The motion was brought forward at a previous council meeting by deputy mayor Shane Hok as a notice of motion, with intent to be debated Tuesday. The motion posited that it would allow for greater transparency and accountability [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada spent $63.4 billion on national defence in 2025, meeting its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence for the first time, the alliance’s annual report said Thursday. Speaking at an event in Halifax, N.S., on Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney called it the “single largest year-on-year increase in [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday have returned to Canada. Pilots carried the casket of Jazz Aviation first officer Mackenzie Gunther off a plane at the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday afternoon. Capt. Antoine Forest’s body was then [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — An MP who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals is casting doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, asking an expert during a parliamentary committee today whether she’d seen forced labour with her own eyes. Michael Ma crossed the floor to the Liberals in December and joined Prime [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs from northern Ontario demanded answers Thursday from Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty after they linked the death of a three-year-old boy to a lack of federal funding for fire services in their communities. On Monday, a house fire in a northwestern Ontario community took the life of Chief Donny Morris’s [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Legal proceedings have been settled out of court between Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon and Quebec media personalities Pénélope McQuade and Julie Snyder. In 2020, Rozon filed a $450,000 defamation lawsuit against the two women over remarks they had made during a television show hosted by Snyder. Rozon alleged that false statements [...] Read More »

Over 200 Blood Tribe members took part in The Blood Tribe Resource Fair Thursday in Standoff. The event was the first of its kind, says Levi Little Moustache, Director of Blood Tribe Employment and Skills Training (BTEST). “The event today was a collaboration of all the HR departments (including) all the departments under Blood Tribe, [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Misconduct allegations from more than five years ago finally culminated in a disciplinary hearing for Lethbridge Police Service Chief Shahin Mehdizadeh this week. The Lethbridge Police Commission held the hearing Thursday at City Hall to address misconduct allegations against Mehdizadeh regarding an incident that took place in March 2021. The allegations were made [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDjmanio@lethbridgeherald.com A perpetual challenge for not-for-profit organizations is funding for their charitable work. In support of its continuing mission, Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is hosting an inaugural gala called “Spring to Light” on April 25 at the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Center, featuring Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author Rick Mercer. “This [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A new temporary exhibit has opened at the Galt Museum and Archives that highlights different ways community members and organizations have taken action to create social change in southern Alberta. “Taking Action: People Making a Difference” is now on display until Oct. 5, 2025, and Camina Weasel Moccasin, indigenous curator at the Galt [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDjmanio@lethbridgeherald.com After a long and storied career as a familiar face reporting the weather on CTV Lethbridge, Dory Rossiter retired on April 1st and it was no April Fool’s joke. Retirement, however, merely means clearing her schedule to make room for her passions: the military, music and community service. Rossiter has been an honorary [...] Read More »