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Brooks mayor says majority of businesses ready to reopen
BROOKS, AB - After a week's delay, Premier Jason Kenney announced Friday morning that businesses in Brooks and Calgary can now participate in phase one of the province's relaunch plan starting on Mond...
May 22, 2020
Two new COVID-19 cases in Medicine Hat and Brooks
Medicine Hat and Brooks have each recorded two more cases of COVID-19. Medicine Hat now has 38 cases, eight active and 30 recovered. Brooks has 1,092 cases, 52 active and 1,033 recovered. The number o...
May 22, 2020
Southeast CMHA working to offer online recovery college
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The southeast region of the Canadian Mental Health Association has been working behind the scenes to open a recovery college in Medicine Hat.Executive Director Cori Fischer says a r...
May 22, 2020
HALO Challenge is taking flight
Southern Albertans seem determined to step in and do what the provincial government won't -- keep HALO flying and saving lives. On May 14 the air ambulance service announced it is weeks away from bein...
May 22, 2020
Reverse job-killing oilpatch monitoring suspensions: Alberta Opposition leader
EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition leader says Premier Jason Kenney should step in to reverse a decision by the province's energy regulator to suspend environmental monitoring. Rachel Notley says th...
May 22, 2020
Toronto FC rookie forward Achara thinking of family back home in Nigeria
TORONTO - You could forgive Toronto FC rookie Ifunanyachi Achara if he thought "Why me?" When the 16-year-old Achara came to the U.S. from Nigeria in 2014 to attend Berkshire High School in Massachuse...
May 22, 2020
Federal parties tap wage subsidy program to avoid layoffs as donations dry up
OTTAWA - Federal political parties are tapping into the emergency wage subsidy program to avoid laying off their staff as donations dry up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Liberal...
May 22, 2020
Leaving hand sanitizer in hot vehicles a fire risk: Alberta doctors
EDMONTON - Doctors at Alberta Health Services say people using hand sanitizer when they are out shouldn't leave it in their cars for too long because it could lead to a fire. The advice...
May 22, 2020
California's April jobless rate higher than Great Recession
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's unemployment rate nearly tripled to 15.5% in April as the nation's most populous state lost more jobs in one month from the coronavirus than it did during the Great R...
May 22, 2020
Lack of singing and togetherness can take a toll, says MHC choral director
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Some of the city's most beautiful voices have been missing over the past two months with choirs and ensembles silenced due to COVID-19.New provincial health guidelines on group gath...
May 22, 2020