Community

Local businesses get creative and colourful with fundraising

Medicine Hat, AB - When it comes to fundraising for sports teams, youth groups, and school clubs local businesses play a huge role. That's why two local businesses are getting creative in order to hel...

Aug 02, 2019 Our City in Colour books available for youth groups to sell (Photo courtesy of Bob Schneider)

Staff at Mook Fabrics aim to make 100 quilts for Ronald McDonald House

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Staff at a local fabric company have started an ambitious project this summer to help children in need.A group of 15 staff members and their family members at Mook Fabrics have been...

Aug 01, 2019 A staff member from Mook Fabrics lays out a quilt made for the Ronald McDonald House in Medicine Hat on Thursday (photo by Ross Lavigne)

Government seeking more time on public sector union arbitration discussions.

MEDICINE HAT, AB - It's legislation which affects workers for some of Medicine Hat's largest employers, including the hospital, Remand Centre, court house as well as local provincial offices for vario...

Aug 01, 2019 Photo courtesy of Ross Lavigne - Drew Barnes, Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA.

Local advocate applauds grocery for plastic bag decision

MEDICINE HAT, AB - For more than a decade, longtime Medicine Hat resident Uwe Krickhahn has been advocating Medicine Hat City Hall to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. He was shot down four times b...

Aug 01, 2019 Photo courtesy of Ross Lavigne - Uwe Krickhahn, Medicine Hat advocate for the reduction of single-use plastic bags, speaks on the issue on Aug. 1, 2019.

County continues to battle wildfires

Cypress County, AB - Cypress Country remains under a state of local emergency due to wildfires. Over the past week an estimated 17,000 hectares of land has burned between a fire in Walsh and another i...

Jul 31, 2019 Photo courtesy of Dunmore Fire Station

RCMP Musical Ride coming to Medicine Hat

MEDICINE HAT, AB -- The RCMP Musical Ride is coming to Medicine Hat Wednesday evening. 32 Mounties from across the country will be saddled up on their horses, performing multiple complex musical acts....

Jul 30, 2019 Constable Jennifer Fraser / Courtesy: Colton Mckee

Net zero home being built in Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat, AB - The construction site looks like any other. This one's special for owner Bosch Built Homes owner Joel Bosch though. Not only is it his own, but the first of it's type in Medicine Ha...

Jul 29, 2019 Bosch house is South Ridge (Courtesy Ross Lavigne)

Fire threat remains extreme

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The state of local emergency remains in place with high temperatures, low soil moisture and hotspots from fires over the last week combining for an extreme risk for flareups.The sta...

Jul 29, 2019 Photo courtesy Alex McCuaig - A fire burns near a homestead outside of Irvine, AB on July 27, 2019

Another successful Exhibition and Stampede, says GM

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Every year organizers of the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede commit to putting on the biggest and best annual show in southeastern Alberta.They rarely disappoint and this year ...

Jul 29, 2019 Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede

New farm legislation seeks to be grown from the grassroots

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The newly minted provincial agriculture minister made his first trip to southeastern Alberta in that capacity to hear from local farmers and ranchers about what should be in the new...

Jul 28, 2019 Photo courtesy of Alex McCuaig - Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen and Brooks-Medicine Hat MLA Michaela Glasgo at the Brooks Farm Freedom and Safety Act consultations at the Heritage Inn on July 27, 2019.