Construction on Medicine Hat’s Southwest Substation project will begin in June 2026.

The City of Medicine Hat received approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission for the construction and operation of the facility on April 25, 2025.

The substation, known as MHS-11, is located west of Gershaw Drive and Highway 3, just north of Saamis Prairie View Cemetery.

In early June, the City says you will see increased on-site activity, with crews bringing in machinery and starting the groundwork to prepare for construction.

The City says the project is part of its long-term planning to support growth and maintain reliable electric service for customers across the community.

"Usually we open the last Friday of April, but we decided to try opening earlier and just see if we get any campers in. We're practically booked to full capacity for most of the season, so it's actually tough to increase bookings year over year.

If you drove past the Gas City Campground this morning, you might have noticed something unusual for early April: trailers are already unhooking and campfires are starting to crackle.

In a major shift for local tourism, Medicine Hat has officially moved its camping season up by nearly six weeks. Traditionally, the gates at Gas City didn't swing open until the final Friday of April. This year, the city pulled the trigger on an April 6 opening, and the reason is a mix of changing climate and local demand..."

"Less than four months after a Zamboni explosion destroyed their arena, the southern Alberta town of Taber has won the 2026 Kraft Hockeyville competition, securing $250,000 for repairs and the chance to host an NHL pre-season game..."

The Medicine Hat Health Foundation (MHHF) is giving a financial boost to students pursuing an education in health and community services at Medicine Hat College (MHC).

The health foundation is doubling its support for students in the Yuill School of Health & Community Services.

Funds will be distributed through bursaries, with the awarded value per student, between $1,000 and $2,000, according to a news release from MHC.

After three deaths were reported in one day in the emergency room of Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, physicians are calling from action from the province.

In addition to the widely publicized death of 44-year-old Edmonton father Prashant Sreekumar after waiting in the ER for eight hours on Dec. 22, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday that two others also died while receiving active care in the same ER that day.

Since then, physicians across the province have been sounding the alarm about a crisis in Alberta hospitals.

Medicine Hat city council started the process to fire City Manager Ann Mitchell during Monday’s council meeting.

About two hours into the meeting, Councillor Alison Van Dyke made a motion that council accepted the investigative report as presented in closed session.

That was approved unanimously.

Fourteen-year old Echo Moreton said black roof shingles absorb the sun’s energy to help melt snow off a roof in winter.

In the summer months that heat absorption isn’t beneficial, which is why she created shingles that change colour to white when reaching 26 degrees celsius.

Beginning next week, there will be a bring your own games night at the Kiwanis center (the old Elizabeth Street School). It will be every first and third Friday of the month for now, with hopes to make it every Friday eventually.

Entry is $5, and there will be cans of pop and small bags of chips for $1 each. Cash only.

This is run 100% by volunteers and all money collected is going directly to the Kiwanis center to help with operations costs. The center provides space for many community groups at an affordable rent. Things like Wellspring cancer support group, women's self defense, the medicine hat chess club, and the medicine hat rock and lapidary club all use this space.

The local discord server has a spot set up for people to use to organize games if they want to as well. It can be found here: https://discord.gg/emnYEySc

Games will not be provided at this point. Any tabletop game is welcome whether it's board games, cards, or D&D. I hope to see some of you there to have fun and support a great community resource!

Edit: This is a direct copy of the post by /u/beesdisaster on /r/medicinehat. All credit goes to them!

A directive from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) requires that all federal institutions carry out what it calls a privacy impact assessment (PIA) prior to any activity that involves the collection or handling of personal information, with the goal of identifying privacy risks and ways of mitigating or eliminating them.

According to the directive, which took effect in 2002 and was revised in 2010, federal departments must then provide a copy of their PIA to the TBS and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Radio-Canada asked each of the federal institutions using the spyware if they had first conducted privacy impact assessments. According to their written responses, none did. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said it intends to do so.