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HALO among first responders in Highway 9 crash

Medicine Hat, AB - Tuesday's multi-vehicle crash on Highway 9 required a massive response from first responders. Multiple RCMP detachments, including Redcliff, Hanna, and Coronation were involved in m...

Aug 21, 2019 Photo courtesy of Ross Lavigne

RCMP say Highway 9 crash investigation will take several weeks

CEREAL, AB - RCMP say that the investigation following the multi-vehicle collision near Cereal Tuesday afternoon will take several weeks. Corporal Laurel Scott, media relations officer with the RCMP, ...

Aug 21, 2019

Provincial review of SCS splits opinions in community

Medicine Hat, AB - Work was about to start converting a former restaurant on South Railway Street to a supervised consumption site in Medicine Hat. All of that stopped when the United Conservative Par...

Aug 20, 2019

Motion to limit SCS funding and needle distribution defeated as protesters supporting and rejecting resolution pack council chambers

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Monday afternoon began at Lethbridge City Hall with hundreds if not more than a thousand or so members of the public - many carrying signs - either supporting Lethbridge's Supervised ...

Aug 20, 2019 A packed Lethbridge council chambers Monday afternoon

Irvine residents give feedback on evacuation

Cypress County, AB - Members of the Irvine community met Monday night with Cypress County officials to give their feedback on the evacuation of the Hamlet after a train derailed on August 2nd. "I thin...

Aug 19, 2019 Residents of Irvine meet with county officials to give feedback on evacuation (Photo by Colton McKee)

Cypress County looking for feedback on Irvine evacuation

Cypress County, AB - Just over two weeks after the train derailment in Irvine, Cypress County is asking the residents who were evacuated for their feedback. The county is hosting an "information night...

Aug 19, 2019 Photo courtesy of Alex McCuaig - Train cars lay at the side of the tracks at the scene of a train derailment in Irvine, Alberta.

The sky is the limit to souping up your hotrod at Cars and Guitars

Medicine Hat, AB - The gates are open at the Canalta Centre's Cars and Guitars with a blinding array of chrome-laden, Detroit steel made cars, station wagons, vans and trucks on display looking to wow...

Aug 17, 2019 Photo by Alex McCuaig - A '68 Ford Falcon on display at the Cars and Guitars show at the Canalta Centre.

New bookstore set to open in support of APARC

Medicine Hat, AB - This fall, a new bookstore will open its doors in downtown Medicine Hat. And it will be supporting the Alberta Pound and Rescue Centre. "I've always had a love and passion for books...

Aug 16, 2019 Photo by Bob Schneider

Moose Recreation Centre to open early with Kinplex construction delayed

Medicine Hat, AB - All summer long the Kinplex has been under construction, expected to be opened by August 31.With construction on the kin one side sitting hitting a delay, they won't be opening the ...

Aug 16, 2019 Concrete slab curing at the Kinplex (photo by Bob Schneider)

Windfarm powering local economy

Bow Island, AB - It's a beehive of activity at the site of the Whitla Windfarm south of Bow Island as the 56 turbine project begins taking shape amongst the canola, lentil and wheat fields.Gravel road...

Aug 16, 2019