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bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Local students who dream of saving lives and enriching their community through public service will soon be able to enrol in a school academy that will provide them the necessary tools to become a police officer or firefighter. Next school year, the Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education is opening an unique First Responder ... Read More »

@@CollinGallant Eight residential units can be built on five formerly single-family home lots in Saamis Heights after city council endorsed a zoning change on Monday. That means duplexes, according to the developer, not apartment buildings could also be built on the land now designated for medium-residential development. Approved 9-0, councillors said the duplex plans – ... Read More »

@@CollinGallant Crews cleared snow and broke down ruts on Sixth Street on Wednesday morning, the day after a city bus slid into a tree on the main route across the Southeast Hill. There, graders knocked down ruts measuring four-to-five inches deep as a priority, though municipal works officials say clearing busy, though non-arterial roads across ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Boxing Club packed the Medicine Hat Lodge with a weekend of boxing action. The local boxing club held the 20th annual Nieman/Page memorial Alberta Silver Gloves over the weekend. It was the largest tournament in Alberta, with 87 bouts across Saturday and Sunday. Locally, Zak Czember (30 kg. Jr. A) lost ... Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers are firing at all cylinders to start 2025. The Tigers picked up a seventh straight win in large fashion Tuesday night, thumping the visiting Regina Pats 10-4 to extend their season-high win streak. Eight Tigers picked up multi-point nights with five recording three or more points. Hunter St. Martin had ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Squash Association is hosting the Gas City pro-am starting today at the YMCA. The local squash association will have five days of squash action on display with both professional and amateur players showcasing their skills. The professional event starts today at noon and runs until Sunday at 2 p.m. Today’s professional ... Read More »

Have you ever wondered what exactly Human Resource departments do for organizations and why it is extremely important for those organizations to have an in-house HR department? I would like to share with you the value this has for organizations and the opportunities they are missing by having their HR people live in different cities ... Read More »

Interesting to read that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce rolled out its ‘State of American business’ program the other day and it had three key items for the Trump government to consider. One of them was of special interest to Canada, whose business leaders are shaking in their boots awaiting the 25-per-cent tariffs threatened by ... Read More »

@@CollinGallant No offence to Bob Wanner, Rob Renner, or any of the other Medicine Hat area MLA’s from over the years, but its been a while since a representative of Gas City voters was involved in international intrigue. Jim Horsman’s helping hands on NAFTA was probably the last time one was so close to the ... Read More »

Dear editor, I have lived in Medicine Hat for two centuries – well, from 1958 to 2025! The Medicine Hat News has been delivered to my door in all of that time, in the 50s to my parents’ house and ever since 1963 when I’ve had my own house (with my husband, Bert). In the ... Read More »

Dear editor, A quick quiz: Ladies and gentlemen, who among you can name the person responsible, from May 1, 2024 onwards several decades into the future, for an additional $15 billion/year ($1.25 billion/month) earned by Alberta’s oil industry? This person took a chance, several years ago, and spent $34 billion of our public money to ... Read More »

Dear editor, My heart sank yet again when I read the story in the Thursday, Dec. 12 News that four people were killed in a crash on Highway 3 east of Grassy Lake on the Tuesday morning. The story says an RCMP collision reconstructionist is investigating the cause of the collision, so it’s hard and ... Read More »