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Family Leisure Centre pool to close for maintenance later this week
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat's most well-used pool will be closing down for the next two weeks as annual maintenance gets underway.The Kinsmen Aquatic Park at the Family Leisure Centre will officia...
Aug 12, 2019 Photo courtesy of Colton McKee
Hodgins sitting T48 at Canadian Junior Championship
HARTLAND, AB - Medicine Hat's Ryan Hodgins signed off on an opening-round 72 to sit in a tie for 48th at the Canadian Junior Boys Golf Championships at Covered Bridge Golf and Country Club.At even par...
Aug 12, 2019 Ryan Hodgins hits a chip-shot at the 2019 Alberta Junior Boys Championship at Highwood Golf and Country Club in High River.
Police grant funding on hold
Medicine Hat, AB - Half the money from two provincial funding grants for Medicine Hat and Redcliff policing are on hold, at least until after the provincial budget is passed in the fall, according to ...
Aug 12, 2019
Epstein death puts renowned pathologist back in spotlight
NEW YORK - He testified for O.J. Simpson's defence, helped investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., hosted an HBO show and brought his pathology expertis...
Aug 12, 2019
Redcliff Library launches bicycle lending program
Redcliff, AB - The Redcliff Library is not just loaning books these days but bikes after launching a new lending initiative this month.Five adult and two youth bicycles - as well as helmets and locks ...
Aug 12, 2019 Photo courtesy of Bob Schneider - Library manager Tracy Weinrauch talks about Redcliff's new bicycle lending program on Monday Aug. 12, 2019.
Fire department trying to help young boy who started fire
Medicine Hat, AB - Medicine Hat Police have confirmed that an early morning fire in Crescent Heights was started by a young boy under the age of 12. Emergency crews responded to the Northlands Multi-D...
Aug 12, 2019 Damage left by fire started Saturday morning by young boy - photo by Ross Lavigne
Blue Jays bullpen comes up big in second straight win over Yankees
TORONTO - Rookie infielders Bo Bichette, Cavan Biggio and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. deserved accolades for their successful seventh-inning at-bats, pushing in a pair of runs and allowing the Toronto ...
Aug 12, 2019
Crops devastated by fourth driest July in Medicine Hat history
CYPRESS COUNTY, AB -- Many farmers and ranchers have been struggling during the summer of 2019, as a result of one of the driest July's on record. "Well, it's been a challenge, we've had an exceptiona...
Aug 12, 2019
Daniil Medvedev, Rafael Nadal set to square off in Rogers Cup final
MONTREAL - Adrenaline pumping through his veins following a gutsy quarterfinal victory, Gael Monfils was ready to head right back onto centre court and battle one of the game's greats under ...
Aug 12, 2019
Canadian 'so grateful' to be back in B.C. after eight-month detention in Syria
VANCOUVER - A Canadian man who spent eight months in Syrian prisons said he wept three times on his flight back because he was so excited to finally be coming home. Kristian Baxt...
Aug 12, 2019