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City bullying bylaw could be used to cool off disputes about mask bylaw

MEDICINE HAT, AB - When city council passed its mask bylaw earlier this week it also heard of the little utilized bylaw passed a decade ago as a way to quell disputes for those on both sides of the de...

Dec 04, 2020

Police to trim budget as city $27 million budget gap looms large

MEDICINE HAT, AB - With Mayor Ted Clugston's warning residents to brace for the steepest cuts in Medicine Hat's history earlier this week as the city tries to plug a $27 million hole in its budget, th...

Nov 19, 2020

City services, utility rates going up

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The cost of doing business will be going up in Medicine Hat - along with just about everything else requiring a permit, licence, inspection or approval from City Hall as council app...

Nov 16, 2020

Council discusses mask bylaw amid record COVID cases in Hat

MEDICINE HAT, AB - A surge in local active cases of COVID-19 had Medicine Hat's director of emergency management providing a grim situational update with councillors hinting it will bring in a mask by...

Nov 16, 2020

New sheriff in town as city names new police chief

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The 22nd Medicine Hat Police Service's chief was announced Monday at the city council meeting as MHPS Chief Andy McGrogan gets ready to close out a four-decade tour with the local l...

Nov 16, 2020

Irrigation upgrades to Norwood green spaces starting this week

MEDICINE HAT, AB - A trio of cul-de-sac park areas in the Norwood neighbourhood are getting upgrades starting this week and lasting as long as the weather holds out in the 2020 construction season, ac...

Nov 03, 2020

Council accepts new policy for pay

MEDICINE HAT, AB - City council has a new remuneration policy that will see councillors and the mayor's pay indexed to inflation with base pay calculated through an average of councillor's in similar-...

Nov 02, 2020

Tax penalty bylaw sent back to drawing board as doubling rate too much to stomach for council

MEDICINE HAT, AB - A bylaw that would see the city's municipal tax penalties reach parity with other jurisdictions landed with a thud Monday night as what some councillors and staff called an "invisib...

Nov 02, 2020

City solar thermal project demolished, scrapped

MEDICINE HAT, AB - There was no shortage of fanfare during the opening of the Medicine Hat solar thermal project when it opened in 2014 but there was no brass band playing as crews demolished the proj...

Oct 23, 2020

Council pay up for discussion at city committee meeting

MEDICINE HAT, AB - How much municipal elected officials get paid is often a contentious issue but a city committee will be looking at the issue - but behind closed doors for now.The topic will be disc...

Sep 21, 2020