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Saskatchewan records first COVID-19 case as the JUNO Awards cancelled

REGINA - Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health says the province has its first presumptive case of COVID-19.The province's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, says the person recently travelle...

Mar 12, 2020 (Dreamtime photo)

City considers sale of Kiwanis Centre

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The city is considering selling a South Flats building housing a number of community groups, CHAT News has learned.Donovan Hoggan, president of the Gas City Kiwanis Society which ru...

Mar 11, 2020

Tim Hortons is scrapping Roll Up The Rim cups due to the coronavirus

TORONTO - Tim Hortons says it is getting rid of Roll Up The Rim cups due to the novel coronavirus and is moving much of the annual contest to its app. The coffee-and-doughnut chain is removing al...

Mar 08, 2020

Radon gas: A deadly but misunderstood issue for Albertans

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Radon is an odourless, colourless, radioactive gas with Canadians having some of the highest levels of exposure to on the planet and the prairies some of the most in the country.It'...

Mar 06, 2020 Medicine Hat resident Linda Cleveland is trying to raise awareness of radon gas exposure on the prairies. (CHAT News photo)

Future of Echo Dale regional park the focus of an online survey

MEDICINE HAT - A survey on the future of Echo Dale Regional Park is now available online.The city of Medicine Hat and a consultant are working together to develop the concept plan, which will guide op...

Mar 06, 2020 City of Medicine Hat image

Regional flood mitigation program taking small step to realization

DUNMORE, AB - A nearly $170 million flood mitigation project for southeastern Alberta is nearing the start of its first phase with Cypress County councillors voting Tuesday to support funding for the ...

Mar 04, 2020 One of dozens of farms and ranchers left under water following flash flooding in Cypress County in the spring of 2010. (CHAT News file photo)

Otter Quest an adventure but aquatic mammal remains elusive

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Despite no confirmed sightings of a trio of otters which captured the imagination of Hatters in the last two weeks, the Grasslands Naturalists hosted it's Otter Quest Sunday afterno...

Mar 01, 2020 Some of the two dozen or so otter spotters who turned up to the Grasslands Naturalist's Otter Quest on Sunday. (CHAT News photo)

Protesters rally against government cuts at city hall

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Around 200 Hatters turned out on blustery Saturday to protest the provincial government's cuts to services, joining thousands of others across southern Alberta.The group made up pri...

Feb 29, 2020

Top local CHAT News stories for the week of Feb. 22 - 28

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The top stories this week include a fatal accident on the Trans-Canada Highway in the city while a tweet from a Hollywood star, a city record store and two separate arrests by city ...

Feb 29, 2020

Local boy wins stick from Oilers ace with a "paper bomb"

MEDICINE HAT, AB - A local family of loyal Edmonton Oilers fans had that connection cemented late last week after the team's top goal scorer handed over an autographed stick of his following a game of...

Feb 24, 2020 From left to right: Nicole, Noah, 8, David and Liam, 5, hold up the stick won in a Rock Paper Scissors contest against Leon Draisaitl. (CHAT News)