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Cypress Farm & Ranch Show coming to the Hat in June
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on January 7th, 2025
asmith@medicinehatnews.com A new event coming to southeast Alberta this spring aims to make itself a part of summers here for years to come. Held alongside the World Professional Chuckwagon Association races at the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, the Cypress Farm & Ranch Show will provide a platform for farmers, ranchers and exhibitors to network, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Upcoming nature walk will focus on the wonders of the South Saskatchewan
By ANNA SMITH Local Journalism Initiative on January 7th, 2025
asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Medicine Hat Interpretive Program is heading down to the river for the latest of its guided walks. Residents are invited to meet out front of the Nature Centre on Jan. 15 at 11 a.m. to walk along the South Saskatchewan River for an hour, learn more about the aquatic species that live there ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sharps asks council to detail remaining sanction on Clark
By Collin Gallant on January 7th, 2025
@@CollinGallant The new year could begin with council dealing with lingering issues from a court-ordered review of its sanctions of Mayor Linnsie Clark last year. Medicine Hat’s elected officials spent about four hours in closed sessions interviewing potential integrity commissioners on Monday night. That occurred before and after an open session that ended with Coun. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New deputy police chief joins MHPS on Monday
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on January 4th, 2025
news@medicinehatnews.com On Monday the Medicine Hat Police Service will welcome Rajnish Saini as the new deputy chief of police, joining the service following a 25-year career in policing with the Brantford Police Service and Nelson Police Department. Police chief Alan Murphy explains the service has used different categorized structures for its high-ranking officers responsible for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nomination period officially open for fall municipal election
By Collin Gallant on January 4th, 2025
@@CollinGallant The lead-up to the 2025 city election has officially begun, though few potential candidates were out of the gate when the nomination period opened Thursday morning. Only Calvin Isaac Maltin, the owner of Issac’s Barbershop on S. Railway Street, stated in a social media post on New Year’s Day that he would run for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!YEAR IN REVIEW: Chief of police says tensions were high in 24, hopes for unity in 25
By BRENDAN MILLER on January 4th, 2025
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com As the Medicine Hat Police Service celebrated its 125th anniversary throughout 2024, members responded to an increased number of firearm related calls, conducted several significant drug busts and assisted first responders through a deadly summer on local roads. Local officers also conducted more than 300 visits to encampments located throughout downtown and the Flats ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Business Briefs: Ranching couple from Bindloss inducted into Alberta Herefords Association hall of fame
By Medicine Hat News on January 4th, 2025
@MedicineHatNews Bindloss ranching couple Peggy and Bill Herman have been honoured by the Alberta Herefords Association with an induction into the breed group’s hall of fame. The couple began ranching in the 1960s and built up a purebred herd that sent bulls to the sale in Medicine Hat from 1982 to 2007, the year after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Province to work with city to move homeless shelter out of residential neighbourhood
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on January 4th, 2025
newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com A joint statement released by the province and City of Medicine Hat on Friday states that the city’s two current Mustard Seed locations are “not ideal” homeless shelters and will collectively search for a new permanent location. Local MLA Justin Wright told a city committee Dec. 19 that a provincial plan to move the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Evergreens take centre stage at upcoming nature walk
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on January 4th, 2025
news@medicinehatnews.com Local conifer trees will be the main subject during an upcoming nature walk held by the Medicine Hat Interpretive Program later this month. During the hour-long walk visitors will learn about evergreen trees and how they play a vital role in the local ecosystem as well as their introduction to the prairies. “It will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Redcliff man faces commercial break and enter charges
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on January 3rd, 2025
newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Utilizing a drone as well as a K9 team, Medicine Hat police on Jan. 1 arrested a 38-year-old man from Redcliff following a report of a break and enter at a commercial property. Police responded to a robbery in progress call shortly after 11 p.m. in the 1500 block of Brier Park Road and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Utility cost drops as payback fee expires
By Medicine Hat News on January 3rd, 2025
@MedicineHatNews The power price in Medicine Hat will remain at a floor price of 7 cents per kilowatt hour in January but still decrease, as a charge to recover provincial deferral program costs from 2023 are eliminated. The city brought in blanket pricing based on Alberta market wholesale pricing in late 2023, but the switch ... Read More »
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