The holidays have arrived for 2024. Here is what's open and closed in Medicine Hat and area over the holiday break. - 🗑 Garbage collection There is no garbage collection in Medicine Hat on Dec. 25 and 26. On Dec. 27, collection resumes in Zone 5. Dec. 30 and 31, garbage collection returns to normal. On Jan. 1, there...

RCMP officers in are responding to multiple motor vehicle collisions on Highway 1 between Brooks and Bassano. Icy patches are leading to poor driving conditions. Motorists have been asked to avoid travel in the area. This is a developing story. Refresh for the latest.

Several locations throughout Medicine Hat will be providing their own Christmas dinners for anybody in need. - Salvation Army The Salvation Army Resource Centre is having a holiday meal on Dec. 20 at 5 p.m. The dinner will be upstairs. It is advised that the main entrance be used, at the Fifth Avenue Memorial United Ch...

It's warming up this weekend. Friday is forecast to have a few clouds and be -7 C. The high on Saturday will be 3 C, with a 60 per cent chance of freezing rain in the late evening and overnight and on Sunday 1 C, according to Environment Canada. Here is what's on in Medicine Hat and area this weekend.- 🐄 The Beef Pe...

The outdoor rink in Elkwater has officially opened for public use on Wednesday, Dec. 18.Volunteer Dave Pancoast has been putting in a lot of hours, with help from a few other volunteers to get the ice ready for the season.---A new concrete surface was also poured in the summer, over the old asphalt and painted for a ne...

Bird watchers from around Medicine Hat and Alberta will get together Dec. 22 to observe birds around the city - with some participants filing data that helps global conservation efforts.---The Interpretive Program at Police Point Park is putting on its annual Christmas bird count to collect data for conservation effort...

Medicine Hat's MLA Justin Wright was appointed to help lead Alberta's response to homelessness a day after he revealed a provincial plan already underway to move a homeless shelter out of a residential area of the city.---Wright will co-chair an expert panel charged with assessing government actions and funding while f...

A chance to view cattle and check out a number of vendors, both agriculture related and not is taking place in the Cypress Centre at the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Grounds.---The 26th annual Beef Pen Show and Cowboy Christmas Trade Show kicked off Friday afternoon, with no cost to enter the doors.Committee me...

Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner MP Glen Motz joined anchor Dan Reynish on CHAT News at Noon on Friday as the potential for an early federal election grows.

Medicine Hat's MP Glen Motz called Jagmeet Singh a "hypocritical opportunist" for saying his New Democratic Party will vote to bring down the federal Liberal government only after the holiday break started. "He's a hypocritical opportunist and why should Canadians believe him again?" Motz, the Conse...

The Medicine Hat Cubs Junior B hockey team is on Friday hosting their last game before the holiday break.The Cubs have had a strong season so far, posting 17 wins, seven losses, and two overtime losses, sitting only one point out of second spot in the Heritage Junior Hockey League's south division.---Their opponent Fri...

The City of Medicine Hat has formally applied to Alberta's regulator to build a new southwest substation that officials say is required to meet increased electrical demand from that end of the city.Map/CHAT NewsThe application to the Alberta Utilities Commission, filed on Friday, also includes a request for a transmiss...

Medicine Hat MLA Justin Wright will help lead a new effort by the Alberta government to address homelessness. His appointment as co-chair of an expert panel charged with shaping the province's long-term approach to combatting homelessness. The announcement Friday comes a day after Wright said a plan to move homeless sh...

Hidden Valley Ski Resort near Elkwater opened Thursday morning with a small group of skiers and snowboarders taking advantage of opening day.While some people were kept away by road conditions coming from Medicine Hat, school and work, there were still many skiing enthusiasts taking to the hill.The hill is expected to ...

The curator of the South Alberta Light Horse Regimental Museum has been awarded with a King Charles III Coronation Medal. Wes Krause is one of only 30,000 Canadians to earn this award. The King Charles III Coronation medal is administered and awarded by the Governor General of Canada who acts as the official representa...

Steven Pudwell, past president of the Kinsmen Club of Medicine Hat, joined anchor Dan Reynish on CHAT News at Noon on Thursday.

The Medicine Hat Public Library is offering free rentals of a thermal imaging camera that can detect heat loss in your home.-READ: Cut costs at home with energy conservation over holidays, City of Medicine says-Home inspection services can offer the assessment for a charge, but the MHPL has its own device to rent out.T...

Energy consumption in Medicine Hat has increased with the drop in temperature along with holiday traditions.Christmas lights will be flipped on, thermostats will be set high, and there will be a lot of baking in some homes.Jasmin Gross, the city's energy marketing business analyst, said that there are multiple ways to ...

HALO Air Ambulance's top executive says he is "disappointed" that Medicine Hat's elected leaders chose not to include the organization's funding request in the city's next two-year budget despite community support for the emergency helicopter service."It won't come as any as a surprise to anybody that we...

The City of Medicine Hat is warning residents about potential slippery sections of trail due to several recent freeze-thaw cycles and light snowfalls.While city crews are actively performing snow clearing and traction control measures, ice may still form in certain areas of the trail system, the city said in a news rel...

Some pet adoption centres around Medicine Hat are putting a pause on adoptions over the holidays.They say a new pet doesn't typically make the ideal gift, as they pose quite the commitment to own.A few local adoption services and pet stores discourage the purchasing of an animal at this time of year.The Medicine Hat SP...

Environment Canada has lifted the freezing rain warning for Medicine Hat and Redcliff that was in place for much of Wednesday. However, areas immediately to Medicine Hat's north, south and east remain under a snowfall warning. Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may have become icy and slippery,...

A Medicine Hat's energy official said Wednesday the federal government delaying its net-zero electricity grid goal by 15 years doesn't change the city's need to diversify its portfolio to meet incoming regulations.While the ruling Liberals have pushed back their aim to fully decarbonize electricity grids to 2050 from i...

The Redcliff RCMP is asking its town's residents as well as Medicine Hat to take part in the Stuff the Cruiser campaign. --- Donations can be brought to Redcliff Family Foods to fill the police cruiser on Dec. 18, from 12 p.m.-6 p.m. "You can bring food donations, non-perishable items, toilet paper, diapers,"...

Winter conditions have caused enough havoc this year already - and the season has yet to even begin, as fall will formally come to an end this Saturday.-READ: Medicine Hat, for now, escapes snowfall warning issued north and east of city-Hazardous driving situations concern those new to driving, new to the climate, or a...

Seniors in Medicine Hat received gifts through the Stocking Stuffers for Seniors initiative London Drugs has been doing each year since 2015.A band was playing, while residents at AgeCare Valleyview where enjoying the music as they each went up to receive gifts handed to them by the Suffield Fire Department along side ...

A Medicine Hat artist has donated calendars that include painted works of the city to the Veiner Centre to sell as part of a fundraiser. --- Thirteen original paintings fill the pages, each of them a landmark located in Medicine Hat. It's part of an effort to support the not-for-profit organization that provides for ol...

Mayor Linnsie Clark said Tuesday she can relate to Coun. Andy McGrogan's experience of being criticized by a senior City of Medicine Hat employee and was supportive of his 11th-hour effort to cut the tax increase included in the next two-year budget."He clearly was feeling a bit frustrated and he told council and ...