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1 more for 24: Serena Williams reaches US Open final again
NEW YORK - Serena Williams used a strong performance to return to the U.S. Open final and give herself another shot at winning a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title. Williams got past a slightly sha...
Sep 05, 2019
1 more for 24: Serena Williams reaches US Open final again
NEW YORK - Serena Williams used a strong performance to return to the U.S. Open final and give herself another shot at winning a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title. Williams got past a slightly sha...
Sep 05, 2019
Canada's Eric Lamaze wins CANA Cup aboard Chacco Kid at Spruce Meadows
CALGARY - Canada's Eric Lamaze won the CANA Cup on Thursday night aboard Chacco Kid, delivering a clear and fast time of 37.8 seconds. The duo led the jump off but no one could catch them in the 1.6-m...
Sep 05, 2019
Baby step for solar project
Medicine Hat, AB - As far as utility-grade renewable energy projects go, the granting of a development permit on a parcel of land containing an old tailings pond is a baby step in seeing such a projec...
Sep 05, 2019 closeup photo of a solar panel - Dreamstime stock image
Owner of dive boat where 34 died seeks to head off lawsuits
LOS ANGELES - The owners of the dive boat where 34 people perished in a fire off Southern California filed a lawsuit Thursday to head off potentially costly litigation. Truth Aquatics Inc., which owne...
Sep 05, 2019
Southern AB Mayors and Reeves calling on province to fund HALO
Bow Island, AB - The Mayors and Reeves of Southern Alberta have passed a motion calling on the provincial government to, "provide adequate and ongoing funding to HALO," according to a press release is...
Sep 05, 2019 Photo courtesy of Ross Lavigne.
Historic Royal Hotel reopening in September
MEDICINE HAT, AB -- A Medicine Hat Hotel established 115 years ago will soon be back open. The Royal Hotel closed earlier this year, but will reopen on September 14. "The owners were more interested i...
Sep 05, 2019 The Royal Hotel interior (Courtesy: Colton Mckee)
Manitoba Tory candidate was investigated for sharing photo of naked women
WINNIPEG - A Progressive Conservative candidate looking to keep his seat in Tuesday's Manitoba election was investigated for showing his assistant a photo on his cellphone of naked women and...
Sep 05, 2019
College examining MacKinnon Report for potential impacts
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Executives with Medicine Hat College, as well as its students' association, are currently taking a wait and see approach to recommendations made in the MacKinnon Report released thi...
Sep 05, 2019 Students walks to and from class at Medicine Hat College Thursday afternoon (Photo by Ross Lavigne)
Labour Day lives up to billing for Roughriders linebacker Moncrief
It took three seasons, but Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Derrick Moncrief finally experienced his first Labour Day clash and it lived up expectations. The six-foot-two, 220-pound Moncrief h...
Sep 05, 2019