The Medicine Hat Police Service responded to a 50-year-old woman and a 51-year-old woman who police say were observed climbing a fence to enter a construction site compound. The two individuals are residents of Medicine Hat and have been charged with break and enter to commit theft.According to the Medicine Hat Police ...

Medicine Hat patrol officers have arrested 24-year-old Marshall Kilcup for possession of a prohibited firearm after conducting a vehicle search.According to the Medicine Hat Police Service, a GSG semi-automatic .22-calibre rifle, along with controlled substances, were found in the vehicle. Police said Kilcup was found ...

A Brooks RCMP officer helped out a Newell county resident with a snake problem this week, according to a Friday news release. The resident called the Mounties after encountering a snake at their front door on Thursday that was "very much alive, very much uninvited and in a very bad mood," police said. With no...

Brooks RCMP say an investigation is underway after the Torxen oil and gas company reported a break-in at one of its sites. An employee reported to police that the unknown suspect or suspects accessed a yard at the location before breaking into a locked building. The company representative told the Mounties that various...

Medicine Hat's organized crime team ALERT has seized fentanyl and cocaine totaling more than $250,000 in estimated street value following an investigation that lead to the arrest of three individuals.Seized by ALERT is 1,010 grams of cocaine and 800 grams of fentanyl, along with smaller amounts of methamphetamine and c...

Two cellphone videos in which a woman says she's "OK with this" and that "it was all consensual" are not evidence that she actually consented to the sexual acts that took place inside a London, Ont., hotel room, prosecutors argued Friday at the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's...

A man has been arrested after a storage facility in Medicine Hat's south end was robbed, police say. Officers patrolling the area of 10th Avenue Southwest at about 3:30 a.m. on June 2 found a cut security fence, according to a Wednesday news release. Upon further investigation inside the compound, they found several re...

A woman accusing five hockey players of sexual assault made up a false narrative because she didn't want to take responsibility for her decisions, a defence lawyer for one of the players argued as final submissions in the case began Monday. David Humphrey, who represents Michael McLeod, argued the complainant presented...

Only one driver got in trouble after the Newell Pro Rodeo over the weekend, police say. Brooks RCMP carried out several checkstops on vehicles that were returning from the rodeo event, according to a Monday news release. Out of over 300 vehicles stopped, only one driver registered a "caution" reading on a pol...

Brooks RCMP have laid charges against two men after a bar fight two months ago. A 19-year-old and a 23-year-old were charged with assault causing bodily harm, Mounties said Monday. Police in April said two men were allegedly attacked outside Red Sea Bar on April 12. Police responded to a call at about 3:19 a.m. reporti...

Defence lawyers representing five hockey players accused of sexual assault closed their case Monday, wrapping up testimony in a trial that has heard from nine witnesses over roughly six weeks, including the complainant and one of the accused. Lawyers for the defence and the Crown are set to make legal submissions next ...

A shooting at a downtown Medicine Hat apartment building early on Saturday appears to have been a "targeted incident," police say. Officers arrived at the Mayfair Manor high rise at 407 Fifth Ave. S.E. to find a male victim with multiple injuries in the parking lot of the complex.He was treated at the Medicin...

One of five hockey players accused of sexual assault testified Friday he went to a London, Ont., hotel room hoping for and expecting a sexual encounter with an unknown woman but didn't know anything about what the woman wanted when he got there. Carter Hart told the court he saw a text from teammate Michael McLeod to t...

The invitation to take part in a threesome came in a text message, followed by a phone call, one of five hockey players accused of sexual assault testified Thursday. Carter Hart told a London, Ont., courthouse he was outside a bar with two other players in the early hours of June 19, 2018, when he saw the message teamm...

The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is watching a video of an interview one of the accused gave to police months after the alleged incident. Michael McLeod spoke with the lead investigator in the case at the time, Det. Steve Newton, at his lawyer's office in November 201...

Medicine Hat police said Monday no charges were filed after receiving a report of a dispute involving a firearm. At about 10:36 p.m. last Friday, members of the Medicine Hat Police Service responded to a 13th Avenue Southeast business. It was reported that two individuals had a verbal argument, during which one of them...

Police have arrested several minors after a Medicine Hat liquor store was robbed. Four youths allegedly stole alcohol from a shop on Carry Drive Southeast on May 7. An altercation occurred when an employee confronted the individuals but the staff member wasn't harmed. Seven days later, police identified and arrested th...

An Ontario judge has rejected prosecutors' final attempt to have a text message sent by a former world junior hockey player admitted as evidence in the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates. In the text, Brett Howden describes to another then-teammate seeing one of the accused, Dillon Dube, slap the complain...

Decades after Roy Allan Sobotiak was sentenced to life for the killing of an Edmonton woman, the 61-year-old is set to walk out of prison. Alberta Court of King's Bench Justice Eric Macklin granted bail Friday to Sobotiak, who was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Susan Kaminsky. His conviction was quashed in Februar...

Editor's Note: The following story contains graphic content some readers may find disturbing. A former member of Canada's world junior hockey team briefly broke down in tears Thursday at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates as he faced questions over texts he sent a week after the encounter at the heart...

An Ontario judge has ruled there is no basis to find that a former member of Canada's world junior hockey team was being untruthful about his lack of memory while testifying at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates. Prosecutors sought to cross-examine their own witness, Brett Howden, on more than a dozen...

Police say a truck collided with a house near the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. Officers responded to a report a vehicle hit a home on the 600 block of Prospect Drive Southwest on Tuesday evening. The truck collided with the door of an attached garage, travelled through the door and struck a parked vehicle inside, po...

Members of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team discussed what to tell Hockey Canada investigators looking into their encounter with a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room, court heard Thursday in the sexual assault trial of five players. Players exchanged a series of messages roughly a week after the June 2018 encoun...

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to face more questions from prosecutors today. Defence lawyers finished cross-examining the woman Tuesday, and the Crown now has the opportunity to follow up on any topics raised in that process. This ...

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former world junior hockey players told their trial Tuesday they were men, not boys, at the time of the alleged incident. The complainant, who was 20 at the time, has referred to the players and their other teammates as men throughout her testimony, which began mor...

Police are investigating a series of vehicle graffiti incidents in Brooks. Brooks RCMP responded a report of vehicle vandalism at about 4:30 p.m. on May 8. A blue line was spray painted across the front grille of an SUV in the Shoppers Drugmart parking lot, police said in a news release. A similar occurrence was report...

Allegations laid out in a sexual-assault lawsuit against Hockey Canada and eight unnamed players cannot be used as proof of any wrongdoing in the ongoing criminal trial of five hockey players, jurors in the case heard Thursday. A woman whose identity cannot be disclosed launched a lawsuit in the spring of 2022 alleging...

Defence lawyers are expected to continue cross-examining the complainant today in the sexual assault trial of five hockey players. The woman, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, agreed under cross-examination Wednesday that she took on a "porn star persona" as a coping mechanism while in a hotel...