Environment

City hosting river bank cleanup

Medicine Hat, AB - The South Saskatchewan River plays a major role in Medicine Hat. That's why the city is putting a focus on making sure it's shoreline stays clean. The city is teaming up with the Gr...

Aug 07, 2019

Heritage trees help tell the story of Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat, AB - Every tree represents a chapter in time. In Medicine Hat, there are several that date so far back, they've actually been named 'Heritage Trees'. As the former president of the Herit...

Aug 07, 2019 Plains cottonwoods in Police Point Park in 1889 (photo courtesy the Esplanade archives)

TSB launches investigation into Irvine train derailment

IRVINE, AB - The trains starting rolling through Irvine at 11 a.m. sharp Saturday morning, less than 24 hours following a train derailment in the hamlet located east of Medicine Hat that saw nearly 20...

Aug 03, 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.

Embracing the heat in the Hat

MEDICINE HAT, AB - It was a hot one Friday with 30-degree plus heat descending on much of the southeast portion of the province.For Quebecker Bruno Turcotte driving through the city on his way back to...

Aug 02, 2019 Photo courtesy of Ross Lavigne - Cierra Fortier digs in the sand at Echo Dale on Aug. 2, 2019.

Evacuation order over, highway open, TSB to investigate Irvine derailment.

IRVINE, AB - The Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the train derailment that saw residents within a seven kilometre radius of Irvine told to evacuate following a train derailment on th...

Aug 02, 2019 Photo courtesy Jennifer Radisic - Train cars have derailed near the town of Irvine

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

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

Curbside recycling pickup a success in Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat, AB - A year ago Medicine Hat introduced curbside pick up after they were struggling to keep recyclables out of the landfill. Now a year later, the city is seeing an increase in recycling...

Jul 15, 2019 Photo courtesy of Bob Schneider / Sorted recycling in Medicine Hat

Mercury tops out on top of the world: Alert, Nunavut, warmer than Victoria

Weather watchers are focused on the world's most northerly community which has been experiencing some record-breaking heat. Canadian Forces Station Alert recorded a temperature of 20 C on Su...

Jul 15, 2019