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Fire Station No. 1 officially opens on north side

By Collin Gallant on September 7th, 2018

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant Fire trucks pulled out of the Maple Avenue Fire Station for the last time at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday — moving day for Platoon 3 to the new station located north of the South Saskatchewan River. An official grand opening of the new Fire Station No. 1 is planned for mid October, but ... Read More »

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Cypress Hills Winery finally busts through the border into Alberta

By Collin Gallant on September 7th, 2018

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant A longstanding plan to sell the fruits of the Cypress Hills Winery in Alberta has come to fruition. The winery located near Maple Creek has always planned to stock its wines across the boundary for customers in Medicine Hat and southeastern Alberta. The vineyard has now announced its products are available at South ... Read More »

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Miywasin likely to apply once again for crime reduction funding

By Jeremy Appel on September 7th, 2018

jappel@medicinehatnews.com @MHNJeremyAppel Medicine Hat’s Miywasin Friendship Centre is likely to apply for this year’s crime reduction grant, according to its youth co-ordinator. The Miywasin Centre received funds as part of last year’s grant, which lasts two years, but Carol Syrette says they will apply again so they can having funding for the next two years. ... Read More »

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Local artists look to spread awareness of suicide through semicolon tattoo event

By Mo Cranker on September 7th, 2018

mcranker@medicinehatnews.com @MHNmocranker One of Medicine Hat’s better known tattoo shops is holding a semicolon tattoo event Monday in support of World Suicide Prevention Day. Multiple artists from Monsters’ Ink will have their needles and ink ready from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to tattoo a number of small, semicolon-based tattoos for Hatters wanting to spread ... Read More »

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911 call centre: Not for everyone, but never boring

By Gillian Slade on September 7th, 2018

gslade@medicinehatnews.com  @MHNGillianSlade There is never a dull moment at the Medicine Hat 911 call centre, and they come 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Calls come in from across Medicine Hat, Cypress County and County of Forty Mile. Dispatching police could mean Medicine Hat Police Service or the RCMP, and a fire ... Read More »

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Telus warning customers of email scam

By Jeremy Appel on September 7th, 2018

jappel@medicinehatnews.com @MHNJeremyAppel Telus is warning customers to be skeptical of emails asking for personal information, while purporting to be from the company. Telus Western Canada spokesman Doug Self says the company does its best to “employ robust, state-of-the-art technologies to help identify and filter out spam, malware and other threats so they never reach our ... Read More »

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Packed Parade of Homes excites builders

By Collin Gallant on September 6th, 2018

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant The 2018 Parade of Homes is underway in Medicine Hat with those in the local homebuilding sector hoping a bigger field this year belays better times ahead for the industry. A total of 11 homes from 10 builders will be open to the public for viewing this month — double last year’s total ... Read More »

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Accused threatens to sue the Crown

By Jeremy Appel on September 6th, 2018

jappel@medicinehatnews.com @MHNJeremyAppel A man arrested in late August after a three-hour standoff with police that ended in his being pepper sprayed is threatening to pursue civil action against the Crown prosecutor for what he calls his “unlawful confinement.” David Marthaller, 40, appeared Wednesday in Medicine Hat Provincial Court via CCTV from the local remand centre. ... Read More »

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Applications open for grants taken through civil forfeiture

By Jeremy Appel on September 6th, 2018

jappel@medicinehatnews.com @MHNJeremyAppel The provincial government has opened up applications for community groups to apply for money seized through civil forfeiture. The goal of civil forfeiture — when police confiscate cash and property used for criminal activity — is intended to deter crime. “The process of civil forfeiture makes crime unprofitable and deprives offenders of the ... Read More »

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Lawyer requests an adjournment due to client not returning calls

By Jeremy Appel on September 6th, 2018

Medicine Hat News A local lawyer is having trouble getting ahold of a client accused of gun running, Medicine Hat Provincial Court heard Wednesday. Cory Rieger’s matters were set for trial but defence lawyer Lyndon Heidinger had to request another adjournment, as Rieger isn’t returning calls. Rieger faces two counts of possession for the purposes ... Read More »

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