March 29th, 2024

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Council OKs industrial park plan

By COLLIN GALLANT on March 22nd, 2022

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Clubs protesting the layout of a planned industrial park in the city’s northwest will be invited to sign leases of up to 20-years on their city-owned sites – or negotiate alternatives, including an eventual move to another site – after council approved major planning documents for the area on Monday. NW Industrial was the ... Read More »

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Former Rose Bowl winner takes prize again

By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on March 22nd, 2022

kking@medicinehatnews.com Laec Lorentzen, a 16-year-old cellist, was named the winner of the 2022 Medicine Hat Rotary Music Festival’s Rose Bowl on Sunday for the second time in the past three years. Lorentzen won the Rose Bowl in 2019. While he has taken part in the festival since then, he was ineligible to compete in the ... Read More »

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Police recover semi-auto firearm during weekend vehicle search

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on March 22nd, 2022

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Police say they recovered a loaded semi-automatic rifle after they searched a vehicle on Saturday night. A release from the Medicine Hat Police Service states officers pulled over a car with malfunctioning tail lights and observed the occupants attempting to reach under the seats. Police determined the driver was in breach of a previous ... Read More »

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SEAWA hosting World Water Day event at Connaught Pond

By Medicine Hat News on March 19th, 2022

The South East Alberta Watershed Alliance is inviting Hatters to take part in their World Water Day Volunteer Event, happening Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Connaught Pond. The event aims to provide education about water and its relation to the local environment. Participants will learn how to propagate plains cottonwood trees and ... Read More »

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Local homebuilders celebrate annual awards for first time under BILD banner

By COLLIN GALLANT on March 19th, 2022

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Local homebuilders celebrated their annual awards on Friday night for the first time under the BILD banner. Formerly known as the Canadian Homebuilders Association, the group rejoined their related provincial association this winter. That group rebranded itself with the new name after amalgamating with the Urban Design Institute in 2017, while local wing chose ... Read More »

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Flight academy students hoping to take their work to the skies with construction of plane nearing completion

By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on March 19th, 2022

kking@medicinehatnews.com Students at the Dave Rozdeba South Alberta Flight Academy are hoping to take to the skies this summer as they near competition of a plane they have began constructing in 2020. The academy, which is offered in partnership with Super T Aviation, provides students at Prairie Rose Public School’s Eagle Butte High School the ... Read More »

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Clarification to March 18 story

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on March 19th, 2022

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The article “Local webcaster charged with criminal harassment,” published March 18, includes incorrect information on a secondary point of the complex story. The subject of the article, Thomas Fougere, claims the News has miscategorized an incident that took place between him and a local firefighter on Dec. 10. That incident is not the subject ... Read More »

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Alberta, MHPS increase addiction treatment and support in Hat

By JAMES TUBB on March 19th, 2022

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Medicine Hatters now have more access to recovery-oriented services while battling the illness of addictions. Mike Ellis, Alberta’s associate minister of mental health and addictions, announced multiple approaches to help battling addiction and the opioid crisis in the city of Medicine Hat and southeastern Alberta during a press conference at the Medicine Hat police ... Read More »

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Hat man enters guilty plea in murder case

By COLLIN GALLANT on March 19th, 2022

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A Medicine Hat man has pleaded guilty to murdering his common-law wife in a vicious attack with a box-cutter last October. Timothy Faulkner, 56, had attempted to plead guilty at his first court appearance shortly after the body of Corrine Schneider was discovered by Medicine Hat police in the couple’s apartment on Third Street. ... Read More »

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Cop found not guilty in sexual assault case

By COLLIN GALLANT on March 19th, 2022

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A suspended Medicine Hat police officer was found not guilty of sexual assault which he argued was an ill-advised prank to put cannabis in waitress’s front pocket. That verdict caused members of his family to break into tears in the courtroom, while the waitress later told the News she is “extremely disappointed” and wants ... Read More »

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