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Playing on the porch: First PorchFest Medicine Hat set for Saturday
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Twelve porches on the Southeast Hill will become concert venues tomorrow for the first PorchFest Medicine Hat. The last Saturday in August is International Play Music on the Porch D...
Aug 27, 2021

RCMP renew efforts to find woman last seen on Siksika First Nation 10 years ago
RCMP have released an aged composite sketch showing the current likeness of a woman last seen 10 years ago today on Siksika First Nation west of Medicine Hat.It's part of a renewed effort to find Desi...
Aug 27, 2021

Out on the hustings, Trudeau confronted by father of victim from flight PS752
RICHMOND HILL, Ont. - Merzhad Zarei moved swiftly through a crowd of people waiting to meet Justin Trudeau at an outdoor food-truck festival north of Toronto, hoping to get the Liberal leader's attent...
Aug 27, 2021

Coroner releases report into 2020 death of six snowmobilers in Lac-St-Jean, Que.
MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner has found that a lack of signage and an ill-fated decision to take an unfamiliar shortcut contributed to the deaths of five French snowmobilers and their guide in the Lac-S...
Aug 27, 2021

High-risk stop on Trans-Canada Highway
REDCLIFF, AB - Officers from Medicine Hat Police Service and Redcliff RCMP were involved in a high-risk call on Wednesday afternoon.According to MHPS, officers stopped a vehicle on the Trans-Canada Hi...
Aug 27, 2021

Executive director of local food bank moving onto new role in the community
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat and District Food Bank has announced that executive director Celina Symmonds is leaving the organization.Symmonds has been the executive director for six years. The...
Aug 27, 2021

Prolonged drought and smoke impacted district crops this year
CYPRESS COUNTY, AB - The harvest is underway in our region, but it remains to be seem how much damage was done by heat, another year of drought and the encroachment of grasshoppers to the west. Area f...
Aug 27, 2021

'Everything was just waiting list, waiting list': Parents out of luck for swim registration
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Some Medicine Hat parents were recently in a competitive race on behalf of their children. Not for a new gaming system, concert tickets or to get them into a new school. But to regi...
Aug 27, 2021

Ida aims to hit New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina anniversary
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell wants everyone who lives or works outside the city's levee protection system to evacuate well ahead of an expected hit by Hurricane Ida on Sunday. ...
Aug 27, 2021

Federal government posts $12.7B deficit for June, spending down and revenue up
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a deficit of $12.7 billion for June compared with a deficit of $33.6 billion in June 2020. The drop in the deficit came as spending dropped compared with a year ...
Aug 27, 2021