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Police release name of suspect wanted in domestic assault, stolen truck
By Medicine Hat News on March 24th, 2021
Police are searching for a Medicine Hat man with a history of violent behaviour and fleeing from cops. Gerald Mohr has been named the suspect in an alleged domestic violence incident on March 18, at which point a truck was stolen and driven off by a man. Anyone with information about his whereabouts should contact ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Reasonable doubt, says Hoefman’s counsel
By Alex McCuaig Special to the News on March 24th, 2021
Medicine Hat’s chief Crown prosecutor put the pieces of the puzzle of who killed James Satre together during closing arguments Monday, painting a picture for the jury of Robert Hoefman’s guilt. Hoefman’s DNA on a pair of glasses linked to him that were splattered with the blood of Satre found at the scene of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta unveils overdose response app
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on March 24th, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The Alberta government will be testing a new Digital Overdose Response System (DORS) mobile app in Calgary this summer in hopes of preventing overdose deaths in the province. In 2020, 1,128 people died in Alberta from opioid overdose, and the province’s substance use surveillance data shows COVID-19 continues to have a large impact on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cops search for Hat man with violent history
By Collin Gallant on March 23rd, 2021
Medicine Hat News Police are searching for a Medicine Hat man with a history of fleeing from police and violent behaviour. Gerald Mohr has been named as the suspect in an alleged domestic violence incident on March 18 at which point a truck was stolen and driven off by a man. A picture of Mohr ... Read More »
1 responseWhitla’s third phase OK’d, will be built concurrently with phase two
By Medicine Hat News on March 23rd, 2021
Capital Power has received the OK from regulators to proceed with its second expansion project for the Whitla Wind Farm, and now construction is set to begin this spring in southeastern Alberta. The Edmonton-based power producer completed “Whitla 1” – a 202-megawatt wind farm located south of Bow Island – in late 2019, and immediately ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Community Vibrancy Board to take on big role
By COLLIN GALLANT on March 23rd, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant City council will begin next month the process of collapsing a group of advisory boards into one “Community Vibrancy Board.” The mandate for such a board, approved in concept last fall, is still to be determined, but the nine-member board of council appointees would take on special projects and also determine grant outlays. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cougar sighting at Elkwater prompts urge for public caution
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on March 23rd, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi There was a cougar sighting at Elkwater Townsite last Monday, according to Zach Doan, conservation officer with the environmental enforcement branch, Medicine Hat district. “We have a healthy population of cougars and we have sightings every year in Elkwater, especially in the winter when it’s a lot quieter over here,” he said. “This cougar ... Read More »
1 responseClosing arguments coming today in Hoefman trial
By Alex McCuaig Special to the News on March 23rd, 2021
Testimony in the first-degree murder and extortion trial of a 59-year-old Medicine Hat man ended Monday with prosecutors resting their case and the defence calling no witnesses. Robert Hoefman is accused of killing James Satre, 63, in 2017 as part of a $1-million extortion plot of another individual who can’t be identified under a publication ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rotary’s Rose Bowl winner shines in a virtual event
By KELLEN TANIGUCHI on March 23rd, 2021
ktaniguchi@medicinehatnews.com@@kellentaniguchi The show must go on. The 66th annual Rotary Music Festival wrapped up Sunday, and Josie Hoffarth, 17, was crowned the Rose Bowl champion for her piano performances. “I was super excited when I found out,” said the Crescent Heights High School senior. “I was kind of shocked and overwhelmed. Just the experience of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lynn Macwilliam, local political hopeful, dies at the age of 68
By Medicine Hat News on March 20th, 2021
Lynn Macwilliam, who ran to represent the Brooks-Medicine Hat constituency in 2019, has died. Macwilliam also sought to win the federal riding of Bow River that year and had been a Town of Bassano councillor. An obituary for (Kathryn) Lynn Macwilliam states she died on Feb. 24 at age 68, according to Thom’s Funeral and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After 50 years, Faichuk says goodbye to the News
By Medicine Hat News on March 20th, 2021
If you didn’t get a paper his morning, don’t call Larry Faichuk… unless he’s your neighbour. The News’s long-serving circulation district manager, who’s taken calls, managed routes and delivery accounts for the last 50 years, retired on Friday. Faichuk will still handle his own delivery route – his own block came open a few years ... Read More »
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