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Hut 8 cryptominer expanding to central Alberta
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 1st, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Hut 8 will expand its Bitcoin mining operations in central Alberta later this year, the company has said less than two months after it said it was in talks to secure greater power while improving its environmental footprint. The cryptocurrency miner is also looking to take advantage of booming interest and prices of digital ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alexandra Middle School going online temporarily
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 30th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Grade 8 and 9 students at Alexandra Middle School are making the move to remote learning starting Friday and won’t return to in-class learning until May 10. The Medicine Hat Public School Division posted a statement on its website saying the move to online learning is due to COVID-19. “As a result of positive ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Catholic students take home tree seedlings for Forest Week
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 30th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Hundreds of trees are finding new homes in Medicine Hat this week. More than 300 Medicine Hat Catholic school students took home tree seedlings which they can plant at home. Grade 1 and 2 students from St. Francis Xavier, Mother Teresa and École St. John Paul II each took home a seedling as part ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Property tax promise would cost another $832K
By COLLIN GALLANT on April 30th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Final adjustments to keep property tax rates at 2019 levels this year will go to council for approval Monday, but the effort to maintain “a zero” may require $832,000 more than expected to be spent from reserves. That would account for what city finance officials say is the short-term effect in mid-2020 of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Construction pacing much better than last year
By Medicine Hat News on April 30th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Steady new residential construction, garages and a glut of other home improvement projects are pushing current building permit figures 50 per cent higher than in early 2020, figures released by the city’s planning department show. New spending by businesses as well bolstered permits issued last month and had a total attached value of $6.16 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police, health officials still deciding course of action with defiant business
By medicinehatnews on April 30th, 2021
Police and health officials in Medicine Hat are still considering what action to take after a “freedom rally” took place outside a local restaurant last weekend, and the main speaker was arrested in Thunder Bay on Wednesday for staging a similar event. Police in Winnipeg are also levelling two $1,300 fines against the Ontario man ... Read More »
1 responseActive case count in SW Sask. seems to be levelling off some
By Medicine Hat News on April 30th, 2021
@MedicineHatNewsTWITTER The number of active COVID cases in southwest Saskatchewan appears to have plateaued. That province’s health officials reported nine new cases combined in rural and urban areas in the quadrant of the province closest to southeast Alberta on Thursday. That, minus recoveries brings total cases to 55 in areas outside Swift Current and 36 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hat High’s Whitney Parker one of only four in Alberta to go perfect in free-throw competition
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 30th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Whitney Parker is one of four participants to sink all 20 shots from the foul line in the Alberta Schools Athletic Association’s free-throw challenge last month. The Grade 11 guard for the Medicine Hat High School’s girl’s basketball team says competing against other athletes across the province motivated her for the challenge. “It was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stolen fuel drips trail straight from crime scene to suspects
By Medicine Hat News on April 29th, 2021
A trail of stolen fuel led to the arrest of man and woman from Drayton Valley for stealing a truck in Brooks and then fuel in Bassano, Mounties said on Tuesday. Officials with the Bassano RCMP detachment say they were called to the site of a fuel theft on April 25, and tracked drops of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Medicine Hat Public School Division adds more active cases at schools to its list
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 29th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Medicine Hat Public School division announced two more positive cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday night – one at Alexandra Middle School and another at Medicine Hat Christian. There are now two active cases at MHCS after a previous case of COVID-19 was identified on Monday evening Both schools will remain open and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Retired Hatter recreating old battle, one inch at a time
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on April 29th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi Napoleon and the French army’s invasion of Russia during the Battle of Borodino is being re-created at the kitchen table of a retired Medicine Hat man. Stuart Lecrerar, 65, has already painted more than 1,500 model French and Russian infantry and cavalry for the scale model battlefield, and he says he could see the ... Read More »
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