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Part of Southview Drive to be closed for up to six weeks
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Beginning next week a small portion of Southview Drive SE between Dunmore Road and 13th Avenue will be closed for crews to replace a low-pressure gas line in the Norwood area.The cl...
Sep 03, 2022
Crews battling wildfire north of Jasper
JASPER, ALTA., Sept. 3, 2 p.m. -- Officials with Jasper National Park say specialized crews have begun creating fire control lines to protect a utility line that supplies electricity to the Jasper tow...
Sep 03, 2022
Canada's Jourdain, Makdessi lose by decision as UFC holds first fight card in France
PARIS - Canadian featherweight Charles (Air) Jourdain lost a unanimous decision to England's Nathaniel (The Prospect) Wood on a UFC Fight Night card Saturday. The judges scored it for 30-27, 30-27, 29...
Sep 03, 2022
Quebec election: CAQ proposes two private medical centres to ease hospital strain
MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Qubec promised Saturday to build a pair of private medical centres that would provide services that would be free to Quebecers and reimbursed by medicare in an attempt ...
Sep 03, 2022
Canadian astronaut Saint-Jacques says Artemis 1 delay disappointing, but right call
MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says today's decision to scrub the launch of NASA's new moon rocket is disappointing but necessary due to another leak found ahead of the planned test...
Sep 03, 2022
City firefighters to star in documentary series Alberta Alert
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat firefighters have been chosen to star in a documentary series being produced by a German multimedia company.The company, Fabiola, began filming for the eight-part serie...
Sep 03, 2022
Reeves: Plane threatening to crash in Mississippi lands
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a plane that was circling over northern Mississippi and whose pilot had threatened to crash it into the ground has landed safely. Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Twi...
Sep 03, 2022
Fuel leak ruins NASA's second shot at launching moon rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with...
Sep 03, 2022
Grass fire in Carstairs, AB, forced evacuations before being brought under control
CARSTAIRS, AB - Authorities say a number of homes in a Central Alberta community were being evacuated before a large grassfire burning near the community was brought under control.All of the affected ...
Sep 03, 2022
'Beautiful, one-of-a-kind cities are under water:' Floods in Pakistan worry Canadians
Hours after returning to Canada from Pakistan, a Calgary businessman said he got word floodwaters hit the same area where he had been helping people with disabilities move out of the way of the impend...
Sep 03, 2022