Infrastructure

Council preview - council to receive report on senior services funding model

Medicine Hat, AB - Medicine Hat city council will be receiving the report on possible changes to senior services at Monday's regular meeting with staff recommending a transition to a multi-service mod...

Oct 06, 2019

B.C. gets injunction against Alberta's turn-off-the-taps law

CALGARY - A Federal Court judge has granted the British Columbia government a temporary injunction against an Alberta law that could have limited oil exports to other provinces. Justice Sebastien Gram...

Sep 24, 2019 CHATNEWSTODAY FILE

Power restored after transformer fire early this morning

MEDICINE HAT - Power has been restored to about 26 hundred electric utility customers, after a transformer and power pole burned this morning.Fire crews were called to 2111 9th Avenue S.W. around 5:30...

Sep 19, 2019 CHATNEWSTODAY File photo

Gas City to abandon majority of gas wells through $90 million program

Medicine Hat, AB - The City of Medicine Hat will be spending $90 million over the next three years as it commences a program to abandon more than 2000 of its gas wells, officials announced on Wednesda...

Sep 11, 2019 Photo courtesy Bob Schneider - Brad Maynes describes the city's gas well abandonment program Wednesday at city hall.

Major construction work begins on 1 Ave SW

MEDICINE HAT, AB -- Major construction work begins Monday, September 9 in a residential area of Medicine Hat.A major water and sewer main rehabilitation project will close the road along 1 Ave SW with...

Sep 09, 2019 Courtesy: City of Medicine Hat

Canadian government invests $4.2 million into Southern Alberta’s rail infrastructure

Medicine Hat, AB - The federal government has made a significant infrastructure investment in Southern Alberta.Minister of Natural Resources Canada announced the federal government will invest $4.2 mi...

Aug 26, 2019 The Fort Mile Rail line (Photo: Forty Mile Rail Inc. at 40mr.ca)

Automated power meters coming to Cypress County

Cypress County, AB - Residents in both Cypress and Forty Mile counties are getting a power meter upgrade. According to power provider EQUS, they will be bringing automated power meters to the counties...

Aug 23, 2019

Software glitch eliminated water consumption totals for some Redcliff households

REDCLIFF - Some homeowners in Redcliff could be hit with a larger than normal bill for their water.A water consumption charge that should have been included on the most recent utility bill was missed ...

Aug 16, 2019 CHATNEWS TODAY FILE

City working with consultant and contractor to get project back on track

MEDICINE HAT - An unexpected delay has developed in the infrastructure improvements at the Kinplex.The city is working with a consultant and the contractor to find a solution.In the meantime, events s...

Aug 16, 2019 CHAT NEWS TODAY FILE

Two Southlands hotels set to open before 2020

MEDICINE HAT, AB -- Development has been thriving in Medicine Hat, with two new hotels set to open their doors before the end of 2019. Public confidence in the two structures wasn't high when they wer...

Aug 02, 2019 Courtesy: Bob Schneider