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Local home construction off to blazing start
By Medicine Hat News on May 29th, 2021
Residential construction in Medicine Hat is off to its best start in five years, according to figures posted this week by the city’s planning department. Over all categories, the department issued permits for 81 projects in April attached to estimated budgets of $16.9 million. For the first four months of the year the grand total ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rain, snow brings precipitation levels back up to spring norms
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 29th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Heavy rain last week landed where it was most needed and brings the total precipitation in southern Alberta back to normal levels this spring, according to the province’s latest crop report. Most to the south received about 50 millimetres (two inches) of combined rain and snow between May 17 and 19. It arrived just ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!COVID-19 cases falling fast in SW Sask.
By Medicine Hat News on May 29th, 2021
Active cases of COVID-19 in southwest Saskatchewan have fallen by two-thirds over two weeks following a steep increase in mid-April. The Saskatchewan Health Authority reported one new case in the region including Swift Current, Maple Creek and the area closest to the Alberta boundary. The total number of active cases sat at 31 on Friday, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stewart Optical comes ‘back to the future’ after 25 years
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on May 29th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi An optical shop from the ’90s made its return to Medicine Hat on April 12 when Jim Stewart re-opened Stewart Optical – this time with his 23-year-old son Tyler. “I was Stewart Optical from 1991 to about mid ’96 and then I teamed up with someone else and was there for 25 years,” said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City goes to Plan B for gas supply
By COLLIN GALLANT on May 28th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant TC Energy has cancelled a substantial pipeline that would have brought jobs to the region and more natural gas to Medicine Hat for a power plant expansion, but the city utility department says an alternative deal to supply gas for the new unit is in place. The Nova Gas Medicine Hat Looping Project would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hatters have varied opinions about pace of reopening
By ALEX McCUAIG Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 28th, 2021
amccuaig@medicinehatnews.com If the provincial three-stage reopening plan announced Wednesday seems to be moving at a lighting pace, that’s because it is with the benchmark to trigger Stage Two, possible to be hit as soon as today. And Stage One won’t be in effect until next week at the earliest. But even if Stage Two benchmarks ... Read More »
1 responseFederal well cleanup money getting direction
By Medicine Hat News on May 28th, 2021
More than half a billion dollars from a federal fund to abandon and reclaim aging oil and gas wells has been allocated in Alberta and Saskatchewan, figures from those province’s energy ministries show. In a one-year update Thursday, Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Resources Bronwyn Eyre announced $184 million in that province’s $400-million Accelerated Site ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stampede decision expected soon, officials hopeful
By ALEX McCUAIG Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 28th, 2021
amccuaig@medicinehatnews.com The details of if and how the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede will roll out this year are still unclear but the general manager of city’s largest celebration is hopeful it will happen. Last year saw the MHE&S cancelled for the first time in nearly 75 years but Kara Brake says a decision is ... Read More »
1 responseLocal MLAs back plan for reopening
By ALEX McCUAIG Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 27th, 2021
amccuaig@medicinehatnews.com The city and region’s two MLAs are backing the government’s three-stage reopening plan that could see the Hat return to a near back-to-normal situation for the first time in over a year. “The best thing that could happen is that all Albertans can enjoy this summer,” said Brooks-Medicine Hat MLA Michaela Glasgo. But that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Snow probably helped most crops, and high precipitation was most welcome
By LAUREN THOMSON Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 27th, 2021
lthomson@medicinehatnews.com Several inches of snow and rain fell over May long weekend in the Medicine Hat area, and while it may have left individuals scrambling to protect backyard flowers, local farmer Nicole Neubauer believes it is good for farmers in the area. Neubauer Farms has a series of farms throughout the Cypress County, on which ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Catholic schools predict $355K deficit for next year
By LAUREN THOMSON Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on May 27th, 2021
lthomson@medicinehatnews.com The Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education will start the 2021-2022 school year with an expected deficit of more than $300,000. “Everyone wants to know, ‘What’s the meat?’ Well, the meat is that we have a deficit budget,” said secretary treasurer Greg MacPherson during a live-streamed budget meeting on Wednesday. “The good news is ... Read More »
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