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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

@@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 »

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 »

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 »

Re: Letter to the editor, published Feb. 11 Dear editor, Mr. Elder has presented a very narrow and slanted view to the public regarding the proposed project on the city’s grounds by the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede. It is disheartening for the tens of thousands of Stampede volunteers over the past 130-plus years to ... Read More »

Dear editor, I am horrified but not surprised by the recent (and timely, ie – let’s show them we care, or better yet, let’s distract them from a really big issue currently in the news) announcement in regards to the plan to build two centres in the province to house those under pseudo arrest using ... Read More »

Dear editor, The line in the sand of truth and consequences has been drawn between the free world and the U.S. thanks to the current president. That president has sided with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Haiti and 10 more countries in voting against a U.N. resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... Read More »