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Crescent Heights theatre students set to perform Broadway hit ‘Mean Girls’
By Brendan Miller on January 23rd, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com After months of hard work, studying performances and dances as well as learning lines and cues, Crescent Heights High School theatre arts students are almost ready to take the stage in their adaptation of a 2004 hit movie. Mean Girls was written by Tina Fey and adapted into a Broadway musical in 2018 and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP seeking information in locating a missing teenager near Lethbridge
By Medicine Hat News on January 23rd, 2024
Fort Macleod RCMP is seeking public assistance in locating 16-year-old Carter Bradley Smith, who was last seen in Fort Macleod on Dec. 31. RCMP say Smith may be in the Lethbridge area and is described as standing 5-foot-10, approximately 140 pounds with black hair and hazel eyes. Smith was last seen wearing a green and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AHS hosting free workshops to help manage stress
By Medicine Hat News on January 23rd, 2024
Alberta Health Services will host a two-hour free online workshop on Thursday aimed to help Albertans identify and manage stress. It will be the first of six free online workshops AHS will host this year to help Albertans manage their stress. The interactive workshop is called ‘D-Stress’ and includes discussion around stress and when it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Building permits in Redcliff way down, though value of work did rise
By Medicine Hat News on January 23rd, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Only one new home was built in Redcliff last year, figures from the town’s planning commission show, as the number of building projects slowed in 2023, though the estimate value of work did rise. Two residential structures were permitted in the 12 previous month, town council was told Monday night, including the reconstruction of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What to expect from the State of the City address
By COLLIN GALLANT on January 23rd, 2024
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The first event of the political calendar is marked down for this afternoon as Mayor Linnsie Clark provides the “State of the City” address at a noon-hour luncheon. “I’m going over the highlights from last year and looking forward to some of the challenges that we’ll face as a city in 2024,” Clark told ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Juno-nominated artist kicks off Tongue on the Post
By Brendan Miller on January 23rd, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Suzie Vinnick, winner of 11 Maple Blues Awards, a Canadian Folk Music Award and three Juno nominations, kicked off the Tongue on the Post Folk Music Festival with a performance at Mauro’s Italian Cafe & Bar on Monday evening. Tongue on the Post is known as Western Canada’s first winter folk music festival and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CASA Classroom will offer additional mental health support to students
By Brendan Miller on January 20th, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com The Medicine Hat Public School Division is welcoming the addition of a CASA Mental Health Classroom that will support students with complex mental health issues. The province is expanding in-school support for students by spending $10 million this year to open three new mental health support classrooms, including one at Southview Community School. A ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CFB Suffield hosting another ‘sandbox’ for drone, counter-drone tech showcase
By COLLIN GALLANT on January 20th, 2024
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Fifteen defence contractors, including aerospace giant Boeing, will show off new drone and counter-drone technology at CFB Suffield this spring aiming to win development agreements with Canadian Armed Forces. It is the second straight year the Canadian Department of National Defence has hosted a “Sandbox” event, which allows industry officials to use the airspace ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Concern raised over availability of firefighters in Walsh
By Anna Smith Southern Alberta Newspapers on January 20th, 2024
A letter was sent by a Walsh resident to Cypress County in regards to potential first-responder response times in the event anything were to happen in the hamlet. Geoff Shoesmith included in his letter that he recently noticed there were a number of volunteers on the Cypress fire team who had left, which drew him ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP Briefs: B.C. man due in the Hat for work missing since New Year’s Eve in Dawson Creek
By Medicine Hat News on January 20th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Mounties in B.C. are looking for a man who was supposed to arrive in Medicine Hat earlier this month but hasn’t been seen since a New Year’s Eve party in Dawson Creek. Cole Hosack, 29, is described as a white male, standing 5-foot-9 and weighing 150 pounds with brown hair and eyes. He was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Plans required by municipalities in case drought persists
By Medicine Hat News on January 20th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Municipalities in Alberta have been told to draw up contingency plans in case of worsening drought conditions in the spring, evaluate how low river levels may affect intake pumps at water plants and develop protocols to implement water conservation measures. Letters to municipal councils from Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz were received this week, telling ... Read More »
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