March 18th, 2025

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@@CollinGallant City Hall will likely offer tax breaks to new apartment blocks and other types of multi-family housing built in Medicine Hat, council heard Monday. Economic developer staff told council that offering graduated tax forgiveness over the first several years after a project is built could bring in out-of-town developers, would be easier to administer

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  • Deal reached for more than 4,000 striking CUPE education workers

    newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com CUPE says three deals have been reached between local unions and school divisions in Edmonton and Fort McMurray that now still need to be ratified by CUPE members. More than 3,000 educational workers representing the local union, which works with Edmonton Public Schools along with more than 1,000 workers in Fort McMurray’s public and ... Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • Public school division seeking responses for parent survey

    newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com The Medicine Hat Public School Division is asking parents with children attending one of its schools to complete a three-minute survey by March 28. Previous parent feedback was used by the division to table four universal goals used to help guide discussions within the division. “We are at a checkpoint and need your help ... Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • Medicine Hat’s Catholic schools celebrate Jubilee year

    newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Medicine Hat Catholic schools will engage in Jubilee-themed activities led by school faith leaders and administrators throughout 2025. The religiously significant year has been celebrated every 25 years by Catholics since 1300 and is used as a time of forgiveness, renewal and spiritual revival. This year is themed “Pilgrims of Hope.” During the Jubilee ... Read More »

    7 hours ago

Local Sports

  • Minor Hockey roundup: U13AA MH Hounds fall in South finals

    sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U13AA Hounds’ season came to a close Saturday in Red Deer. The Hounds suffered just their fourth loss of the season, falling 10-1 to the Wesco Chiefs, dropping the best-of-three South conference finals series 2-0. Diesel Bishop scored the Hounds’ lone goal in the loss, Blade Schreiner started the game making ... Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • SAHA U18 men’s fall in CSSHL semifinals

    sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The South Alberta Hockey Academy U18 men’s team had a heartbreak finish to their CSSHL playoffs. SAHA lost in overtime in the semifinals, falling 4-3 Saturday to eventual champion RHA Kelowna. Brayden Ryan-MacKay and Gavin Lesiuk each had a goal and an assist in the semifinals, Tyne Lafournaise scored as well. Mattias Radke made ... Read More »

    7 hours ago
  • Fly Tigers fly: Tabbies remain atop East heading into final week of season

    jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers threw back to 2003 two weekends before they begin a run they hope ends like it’s 2004 or 2007. The Tigers picked up a pair of much-needed weekend wins, coming back to win a 6-5 thriller in overtime Friday at Lethbridge over the Hurricanes before a pair of hat tricks ... Read More »

    7 hours ago


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  • City Notebook: Signs they are a changin’

    @@CollinGallant A portion of Sixth Avenue in front of the Chamber of Commerce will receive a secondary street name – “Commerce Way” – when the chambers across Alberta meet here in May. Not to worry, the non-official effort won’t result in any actual address changes. Such signs also denote the former “Toronto Street” and “Esplanade” ... Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Guest Opinion: The puck is ours – time to take the shot

    On that magical night of the Four Nations final, we were one. No East. No West. No English. No French. Just Canada-coast to coast, fists clenched, eyes locked on the screen. And when Connor McDavid buried that overtime winner, it wasn’t just a hockey game we won. It was a moment of unity. A reminder ... Read More »

    5 days ago
  • Noteworthy:Smith cuts Trump from the Christmas card list

    Hooray for Premier Danielle Smith, who stood tall last Wednesday by going to bat for Alberta and Canada in the tariff fight against U.S. President Donald Trump. Until she did that, during a press conference in Medicine Hat, Smith had been slapped with a negative label in Canada for not forcefully decrying the tariffs which, ... Read More »

    6 days ago

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