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Five things to watch as the Toronto Raptors resume their title defence
The defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors resume their title defence when they face the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday. Here are five things to watch: The Quiet: The Raptors boast one of the b...
Jul 31, 2020

Medicine Hat pharmacies offering asymptomatic COVID testing
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Two Medicine Hat pharmacies are currently offering asymptomatic COVID-19 testing, a pilot project the province rolled out earlier this month.Sandstone Pharmacy on Carry Drive and th...
Jul 31, 2020

Canadian fans ready to embrace return of NHL in season restart amid summer heat
EDMONTON - As the summer heat shimmers off the pavement and stationary cars double as sweltering four-door Dutch ovens, Canada's favourite winter pastime is officially back. The National Hockey L...
Jul 31, 2020

Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential bi...
Jul 31, 2020

Welcome to August, welcome to more road work
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Add a few more locations to the list of road work in Medicine Hat.Beginning on Tuesday, milling operations will be commencing at the following locations across the city:Gershaw Driv...
Jul 31, 2020

NBA champion Toronto Raptors ready to pick up where they left off
The Toronto Raptors were the hottest team in the NBA in early March, on a league-best four-game winning streak, coming off a solid west coast road swing and having just clinched a playoff sp...
Jul 31, 2020

Medicine Hat power plant cool during heatwave
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat's power plant can, in fact, stand the heatHatters have been sweating through heat warnings and temperatures in the mid-30s for close to two weeks.That's had them cranki...
Jul 31, 2020

Anne McLellan, former Liberal minister, drops out of mass shooting public inquiry
HALIFAX - One of the three people selected to lead the public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting has dropped out. Anne McLellan has informed the federal and provincial governmen...
Jul 31, 2020

Police charge man in missing Calgary woman's death; searching for remains
CALGARY - Police in Calgary have charged a man in the death of a 69-year-old woman who disappeared last week.They say Vida Smith travelled to Calgary from Chestermere, a bedroom community east of the ...
Jul 31, 2020

Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...
Jul 31, 2020