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Lethbridge City Manager Bramwell Strain resigns

LETHBRIDGE, AB - After less than a year and a half in Lethbridge, City Manager Bramwell Strain has handed in his resignation "due to personal circumstances." He will remain on the job until Jan. 13, 2...

Dec 10, 2019 Lethbridge City Manager Bramwell Strain

Council votes 6-3 to ban the sale of fireworks within city limits

Medicine Hat, AB - Six months after first being brought up at city council, Medicine Hat now has a bylaw in place to ban the sale of fireworks within the city.The final reading went through Monday nig...

Dec 02, 2019 Canadian National Fireworks Association speaks to City Council on Monday (Photo by Colton McKee)

Enmax Centre posts year over year losses according to KPMG report

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There appear to be a variety of reasons why the City of Lethbridge is hoping to find a buyer for the Enmax Centre, according to information contained in the $464,000 Phase One KPMG Fi...

Nov 29, 2019 Enmax Centre

Truck downs power lines in Redcliff

Medicine Hat, AB - Electricity was cut off to 500 customers this morning after a semi-truck knocked down a couple of power poles along Broadway Avenue Thursday morning.The incident occurred just befor...

Nov 28, 2019

Councillors team up to host town hall meeting

Medicine Hat, AB - Councillor Phil Turnbull will be hosting his third annual town hall meeting this Wednesday."I've always believed that as a city, we don't communicate enough with our citizens. And I...

Nov 25, 2019 Councillors Phil Turnbull and Darren Hirsch

Taxpayer group gaining traction says founding member

Medicine Hat, AB - The president of a local taxpayer advocacy group says the organization is gaining traction in the community after forming in the last few months."People are looking for a change in ...

Nov 22, 2019 File photo - Allan Rose at the Medicine Hat Great West Home and Leisure show last month.

Former CCDA director facing child porn charges

Medicine Hat, AB - The former director of the City Centre Development Agency (CCDA) is facing child pornography charges, CHAT News has learned.Wayne Smith, 65, is facing allegations of accessing and p...

Nov 22, 2019

Mayor feels “much better” about the future of Aurora Cannabis facility after meeting

Medicine Hat, AB - Before their regular meeting on Monday night, Medicine Hat City Council met with Aurora Cannabis executives in a closed-door session.A meeting that Mayor Ted Clugston said had been ...

Nov 18, 2019 The Aurora Sun facility in Medicine Hat - Photo by Colton McKee

Western municipal leaders team up to advocate for prairie provinces

Medicine Hat, AB - Since the election, talks of western alienation have left tensions high among the prairie provinces. That's why the Federation of Canadian Municipalities has announced the "Western ...

Nov 13, 2019 Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba coat of arms.

Warm Hat crowd greets Wexit Alberta leader

Medicine Hat, AB - A crowd of about 100 showed up on a snowy Sunday to the city's first Wexit meeting, welcoming the separatist movement's leader with a warm reception. "Everything Kenney is talking a...

Nov 10, 2019 Photo courtesy of Alex McCuaig - A group of about 100 people gathered at the Medicine Hat Lodge on Sunday to attend Wexit Alberta's first public meeting in the city.