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Terry Fox’s brother in Hat ahead of annual run

By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 13th, 2023

reporter@medicinehatnews.com Fred Fox, brother to Terry Fox, was in Medicine Hat on Monday, and the News caught up with him just prior to a sit-down dinner with the local Terry Fox Run organizing committee at McNally’s Tap House. Starting out from Regina at 8 a.m., Fox visited two schools in Swift Current before continuing on ... Read More »

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‘Very low’ river level doesn’t concern officials yet

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 13th, 2023

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews River levels in Medicine Hat are very low, but they’ve been lower without the need for mandatory conservation measures, according to officials at the city’s water treatment plant. On Tuesday the South Saskatchewan River fell to levels about two thirds below the typical low range for any given year at this time. Large sandbars ... Read More »

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Attempted murder charges for suspect in Brooks stabbing

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 13th, 2023

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Brooks RCMP has named the suspect in a stabbing that occurred Monday morning and charged him with attempted murder. Police responded to a residence in that city just before 10 a.m. on Sept. 11 and found a 61-year-old man had been stabbed multiple times. He was transported to hospital were he was in stable ... Read More »

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Redcliff business given thanks for unique help with Rotary Club initiative

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 13th, 2023

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A Rotary Club effort to send used firetrucks to developing nations is thanking a Redcliff business for helping out with the program. Project “Los Amigos” has sent 60 decommissioned fire trucks, ambulances and buses to areas of Mexico where limited emergency response equipment is available. Recently, a firetruck that had been donated after it ... Read More »

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HALO bringing back its Schools Day after four-year hiatus

By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 13th, 2023

reporter@medicinehatnews.com A HALO school event that hasn’t taken place since 2019 is returning to the Hat. “It’s affectionately referred to as the HALO Emergency Services Schools Day,” said CEO of HALO Paul Carolan. “We have static displays from Medicine Hat Police (Services), Medicine Hat Fire, Southeastern Alberta Search and Rescue, the fixed wing air ambulance ... Read More »

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About 1,000 bikers run toys for Santa Claus Fund

By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 12th, 2023

reporter@medicinehatnews.com The 37th annual Medicine Hat News Santa Claus Fund Toy Run took place this past Saturday. The run started in Irvine, where motorcycle enthusiasts fill the hamlet for the kickoff pancake breakfast, before riding to the city and ending outside the grandstand at the Medicine Hat Stampede & Exhibition grounds. The News caught up ... Read More »

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Brooks man in custody for allegedly stabbing 61-year-old

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 12th, 2023

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews RCMP in Brooks say that a 61-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in a house in that city and a 31-year-old Brooks resident is in custody. Police say they were called to the scene at 9:41 a.m. Monday morning and arrested the suspect at the site. The injured man was transported to hospital where ... Read More »

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Energy pause to cost parties fighting over local solar play

By COLLIN GALLANT on September 12th, 2023

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Lawyers for groups proposing and opposing the construction of the Saamis Solar Park in Medicine Hat are in dispute about next steps during a province-wide pause on renewable energy projects, but both agree their costs could mount. The 1,600-acre solar power facility that would be built on vacant industrial land and grassland in northern ... Read More »

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Company fined $70K for 2021 worker injury near Gull Lake

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 12th, 2023

https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A road building company in Saskatchewan has been fined $70,000 after a worker fell out of a scraper buggy near Gull Lake in June 2021 and was seriously injured. KMS Construction pled guilty Aug. 23 to contravening unspecified portions of rules regarding training and safe operations of equipment, according to a release from the ... Read More »

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Women in Business Expo returns to the Hat on Sept. 16

By Medicine Hat News on September 12th, 2023

After a successful inaugural run in 2022, the Women in Business Expo is returning to Medicine Hat Sept. 16, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.. The free event is a vendor market and trade show in the Auditorium at the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede grounds which aims to showcase the city’s women-led businesses. More than ... Read More »

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Honeycomb House teen space opens at MHPL

By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on September 12th, 2023

reporter@medicinehatnews.com A collection of teens and community members were witness to the grand opening of The Honeycomb House at the Medicine Hat Public Library this past Saturday. Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Justin Wright, Mayor Linnsie Clark, Couns. Ramona Robins and Alison Van Dyke, as well as Chamber of Commerce executive director Lisa Kowalchuk, all spoke at ... Read More »

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