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Looking back to the local impact of the Spanish Influenza
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The events of COVID-19 pandemic will leave a mark in the history books as one of the biggest of our generation.That's according to Philip Pype Archivist at the Esplanade Archives.Th...
Jun 26, 2020
Food bank receives grant from CFSEA
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat & District Food Bank is receiving a funding boost from the Community Foundation of Southeastern Alberta.The grant for $37,182 comes from the emergency support f...
Jun 26, 2020
Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleads not guilty to 3 rapes
LOS ANGELES - Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth. Jeremy, 67, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, entered the pl...
Jun 26, 2020
Former Saskatchewan Highway Patrol chief fired over buying equipment like silencers
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says the former chief of the province's highway patrol was fired for buying inappropriate equipment, including firearm silencers. But Robin Lit...
Jun 26, 2020
Hat High ready to roll with final grad parade for 2020 graduates
MEDICINE HAT, AB - If it wasn't for the pandemic today would have marked the final day of the school year here in Medicine Hat. While it's not the end to their high school lives the class of 2020, the...
Jun 26, 2020
Arrest made in eight-month bank robbery spree through southern Alberta
The Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit has made an arrest in a string of robberies that stretch back to last summer and through six communities.Jesse Damond Morton, 44, of Calgary is alleged to hav...
Jun 26, 2020
Data on PS752 flight recorders to be downloaded in Paris next month
OTTAWA - The federal Transportation Safety Board says information on the flight recorders of the civilian airliner Iran shot down earlier this year will be downloaded the week of July 20 in ...
Jun 26, 2020
Man faces arson and assault charges after pair of targeted attacks
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A Medicine Hat man is facing charges of arson, assault and more in connection to a pair of incidents over the past month.In the first, a parked vehicle was lit on fire in the 600 bl...
Jun 26, 2020
Fatherhood helping Als receiver Wieneke deal with uncertainty of CFL season
Fatherhood is helping Montreal Alouettes receiver Jake Wieneke deal with the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 CFL regular season remains on hold due to the no...
Jun 26, 2020
Statisticians join criticism against Census Bureau hires
ORLANDO, Fla. - The world's largest statisticians group added to a chorus of criticism against the hiring this week of two men to top positions at the U.S. Census Bureau, saying their appointments con...
Jun 26, 2020