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Video: A Grade 6 student has taken on the role of Fire Chief for the Day of the Medicine Hat Fire and Emergency Service
As part of Fire Prevention Week in October 2025, a Grade 6 student, Foster Sissons of cole Connaught School, took on the role of Fire Chief for the Day with Medicine Hat Fire and Emergency Service.Sis...
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George Davidson School has cancelled its Christmas Concert due to a respiratory illness outbreak
A statement from Alberta Health Services says a respiratory illness outbreak has been declared, causing the Christmas Concert at George Davidson School to be cancelled. George Davidson School is not t...
Dec 12, 2025
Ottawa, Alberta agree to extend $15-a-day child-care fees to 2027
Alberta's early-learning and child-care fees will remain at $15-a-day through to 2027 as it works with Ottawa to firm up a more permanent deal.The two jointly announced an extension on the current dea...
Dec 12, 2025
Alberta RCMP remove 50 impaired drivers for National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day
Alberta RCMP removed 50 impaired drivers from the roads on Saturday, Dec. 6 as part of their role in National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day.Of the 50 drivers, 28 received Immediate Roadside Sanctio...
Dec 12, 2025
Podcast & Story: Young Farmer Summit unites 200+ agrarians in Red Deer
The shifting economics of agriculture, mental health among farmers, and the landscape in which younger agrarians are set to take over the sector... Those topics and more made up the agenda at the 2025...
Dec 12, 2025
Alberta's teachers accusing province of bad faith bargaining over recent strike
Alberta's teachers are accusing the province of bad faith bargaining over the recent strike.Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers' Association, says they have filed a complaint with the Al...
Dec 12, 2025
Elections Alberta gets extra $6.7M to handle outburst of recall petitions
Elections Alberta is getting $6.7 million in extra funding to handle the sudden outburst of recall petitions against legislature members.A legislature committee unanimously granted the funding at a me...
Dec 12, 2025
CPKC Holiday Train tours southwest Alberta this weekend, southeast Alberta next weekend
Canada's most festively decorated train is making its return to the region.Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Rail has announced the schedule for its 2025 Holiday Train.The first batch of stops, runn...
Dec 12, 2025
Snowfall warning for Medicine Hat area
Environment Canada issued a yellow warning for snowfall for Medicine Hat and the area at 4:19 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025.Several areas of southeast Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan are under the ...
Dec 12, 2025
Vauxhall resident dies in motor vehicle collision near Scandia
A 66-year-old Vauxhall resident has died after a motor vehicle collision on Thursday afternoon near Scandia.Brooks RCMP received a call about a collision between a semi-truck and an SUV on Highway 36 ...
Dec 12, 2025