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City committee seeks plan to tackle elder abuse as moratorium placed on victims of crime fund

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The city's senior citizens advisory committee is hoping to develop an action plan to deal with the issue of elder abuse in the community as a moratorium has been placed on one avenu...

Feb 14, 2020 LaVerne Noble, chair of the city's Senior Citizens Advisory Committee, hopes to develop an action plan to deal with the growing issue of elder abuse in Medicine Hat.

Brooks community establishes new black history in Alberta

BROOKS, AB - It was more than a century ago that one of Alberta's most famous cowboys died near his Duchess ranch after his horse stepped in a badger hole. But for John Ware, who was born into slavery...

Feb 10, 2020

Top local CHAT News stories of the week

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The search for and subsequent arrest of a man connected to what police call a "crime spree" top the news for the week of Feb. 1 to 7. An arrest of a trio on drug charges as well as ...

Feb 08, 2020

Local carver brings life to dead wood

Elkwater, Alta - Woodcarving with a chainsaw wasn`t something Marina Cole was naturally drawn to - especially since chainsaws were something which the Irvine-based artist says she was a little scared ...

Feb 02, 2020 Marina Cole demonstrates her talent during the Winter Festival in Elkwater on Saturday. (CHAT News photo)

Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco player happy with spinal surgery results

AIRDRIE, Alta. - A hockey player paralyzed in a bus crash has been working hard since undergoing spinal surgery in Thailand late last year and it's getting him closer to his dream of making the nation...

Feb 02, 2020 Photo courtesy of The Canadian Press

WATCH: Meet Brodie, the rescue pup grabbing attention globally

Red Deer, AB - Brodie, a one-year-old German shepherd, border collie cross from Red Deer, has spirit like none other.Less than two weeks after being born, Brodie's mother bit and crushed part of his s...

Feb 02, 2020 Brodie, with owners Amanda Richter and Brad Ames in Red Deer, Alta. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Mixed road conditions across southeast Alberta

Medicine Hat, AB - Road conditions across southeastern Alberta range from snow covered to bare following a several centimeters of snowfall Saturday night into Sunday morning.Alberta 511 is warning mot...

Feb 02, 2020 Junction of the Trans-Canada Highway and Hwy. 36 Sunday morning. Road conditions across southeastern Alberta are mixed following a dump of snow Saturday night, early Sunday morning. (Photo courtesy of Alberta 511)

Hatters flock to Cypress Hills for annual Winter Festival

Elkwater, AB - The mild temperatures may have melted the snow across southeastern Alberta but it was a different case in the Cypress Hills on Saturday.The park hosted its annual Winter Festival with h...

Feb 01, 2020