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Brooks and area to conduct regional policing study
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on February 13th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The City of Brooks has applied for a grant looking to evaluate the possibility of municipal policing in the city and Newell County region. The grant, the Alberta Indigenous and Municipal Police Transition Grant, is a one-time grant that would provide for a feasibility study to look into different models of policing for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!2023 Alberta 55-plus Summer Games in Brooks turns small profit
By Medicine Hat News on February 13th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews The 2023 Alberta 55-plus Summer Games in Brooks showed a $62,000 profit, that city’s council heard last week. The 15-sport games held last August saw athletes arrive from around Alberta and paid $72,000 in registration fees. That brought total revenue to $238,000 that included a $70,000 grant from the City of Brooks and County ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Our family has been through hell and back’: Emotional testimonies from Belyea’s daughters at sentencing
By Brendan Miller on February 13th, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Emotions ran high in the Court of Kings Bench on Monday as Justice Dallas Miller handed down his sentence for parole eligibility to 71-year-old Deborah Belyea, found guilty of the second-degree murder and indecency to human remains of her husband Alfred. Belyea was sentenced to life in federal prison with a possibility of parole ... Read More »
1 responseTime has come to break the silence on pelvic health, says expert
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on February 13th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com Roughly 32 per cent of women will experience pelvic floor problems in their lifetime, says physiotherapist Manali Shanbhag, and it’s time more women talk about it. Shanbhag has a strong connection to the issue, beyond her professional interest in the field, which she believes highlights the prevalence of the stigma surrounding the issue. “My ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Monday in Medicine Hat, Feb. 12
By James Tubb on February 11th, 2024
Medicine Hat News Sentencing in Belyea homicide trial today A Suffield woman convicted of killing her husband will be sentenced on Monday morning in Medicine Hat. Deborah Belyea was found guilty last month of second-degree homicide and indignity to a dead human body in the 2021 killing of her husband, Alf. The second-degree homicide charge ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dunmore Community Association hosts intergenerational classroom
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on February 10th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Dunmore Community Association is looking for individuals with different skills and knowledge, and a desire to share them with those in their community. The Intergenerational Learning Program started as an idea among the DCA members, a way to bring members of the community closer together outside the major events that the association hosts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MHC Case Club tests business savvy with Cancarb judges
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on February 10th, 2024
asmith@medicinehatnews.com Students in the Medicine Hat College Case Club enjoyed a chance to try their hand at a real-world problem and apply their budding business administration expertise. The club is designed to allow these students to apply knowledge in accounting, finance, management and marketing, to create solutions to real business problems, and this application was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Redcliff officials win defamation case in 15-year public dispute
By COLLIN GALLANT on February 10th, 2024
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Redcliff’s former mayor and two senior town staffers have won a resounding court judgment for defamation against a longtime critic who alleged criminal misconduct had taken place during her 15-year public dispute over a development project. In a Kings Bench ruling published Jan. 26, Justice Nick Devlin found Danica Prpick defamed former mayor Rob ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP investigates bomb threat turned hoax
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on February 10th, 2024
The Redcliff RCMP have deemed a bomb threat Thursday was a hoax. The local RCMP unit says they were alerted to a bomb threat made on social media regarding a Dunmore address Thursday night at 8:53 p.m. RCMP officers attended the scene and after completing their investigation, and deemed the threat was a hoax. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Last chance to catch local documentary at Monarch Theatre
By Medicine Hat News on February 10th, 2024
Tickets are still available for the final four showings of the locally produced documentary ‘Your Cinema Needs You.’ Producer Luke Fandrich, known online as Editing Luke, has partnered with the Monarch 1911 Society to offer residents one last chance to watch the documentary in the theatre it’s based on. “This is not just a history ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Regional unemployment double what it was one year ago
By Medicine Hat News on February 10th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews The jobless rate in rural southern Alberta has doubled compared to extremely low rates one year ago. Statistics Canada reported Friday that the unemployment rate for the Medicine Hat-Lethbridge region sat at 7.4 per cent in January, twice the rate of 3.7 per cent recorded in early 2023. That current rate is also the ... Read More »
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