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Wrestling tour announces additional star power for Medicine Hat stop
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 15th, 2024
news@medicinehatnews.com Eighteen-year pro wrestling veteran “The Cowboy” Bryn Watts has battled the likes of WWE alumni The Bollywood Boyz and Tyler Breeze, and has a reputation as one of the hardest hitters in all of Canadian wrestling. Canadian Wrestling Elite has announced Watts will be joining the likes of WWF legend D-Lo Brown for its ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!College receives funding for flexible learning lab
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 15th, 2024
news@medicinehatnews.com A new flexible learning lab at Medicine Hat College will provide students more options on how they choose to access their courses, and will be funded with support from a nonprofit known for providing awards and scholarships to business schools and accounting students across the province. The CPA Education Foundation Flexible Learning Lab will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Correction on food waste survey article
By Medicine Hat News on June 15th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Several points of information were incorrect in an article this week regarding a community survey on a food waste pilot program in Medicine Hat published June 13. The number of households taking part number 4,000, not 400 as stated. A survey showed 64 per cent on Hatters who answered would be “very likely” to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Southeast Alberta regions listed among those which could receive tax deferrals on cattle sales
By Medicine Hat News on June 15th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Cypress County and the counties of Forty Mile and Newell, as well as Special Areas, are again on an initial list of regions where tax deferrals on cattle sales could be available due to drought. The federal program allows livestock producers to report unexpected income when selling head to avoid high feed costs to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP leadership hopeful Nenshi will speak in the Hat next week
By Collin Gallant on June 15th, 2024
@@CollinGallant Collin Gallant cgallant@medicinehatnews.com Twitter: CollinGallant Naheed Nenshi will appear at an event in Medicine Hat next Wednesday, just days before the leadership contest of the Alberta New Democrats concludes. Campaign staff for the former Calgary mayor say he will speak from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Monarch Theatre downtown. The results of the contest to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Suffield, Ralston among listed communities for broadband expansion
By Medicine Hat News on June 15th, 2024
@MedicineHatNews Suffield and Ralston are among communities listed as benefitting from new joint federal and provincial funding to expand broadband access, announced Friday, along with Taber and some small locales along the Highway 3 corridor. They were among 120 communities, with an estimated total population of 14,400, in relatively remote areas that will see $150 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ancestors Reburial Project continues work toward autumn reburial
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 15th, 2024
news@medicinehatnews.com A partnership actively working to rebury the remains and associated burial artifacts of three ancestors held in public trust at the University of Alberta provided an update on recent community engagement efforts as they work toward final reburial in their original resting place. Representatives with the Medicine Hat Ancestors Reburial Project say they have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Avenue Living buys up more rental units in the Hat
By Collin Gallant on June 15th, 2024
@@CollinGallant Medicine Hat’s largest landlord is acquiring two more apartment complexes. Avenue Living will assume ownership of Corbitt Arms and Parkland Townhome apartment blocks later this month, tenants of the MacLab Properties building were informed this week. Calls to Edmonton-based MacLab Developments, the owner of Rent Midwest Property Management and the two local apartment blocks, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!2024 Medicine Hat College graduates honoured at highest attended convocation ceremony
By BRENDAN MILLER on June 15th, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com More than 480 Medicine Hat College graduates walked the stage at Co-op Place in front of family and friends Friday afternoon, the largest single convocation ceremony the college has held since moving to Co-op Place three years ago. Students arrived to their seats to the sounds of cheers from supporters and bagpipes roaring. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Traditional large horse competition returns to Dunmore this weekend
By BRENDAN MILLER on June 14th, 2024
bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Before cars and the time of mail carriers like FedEx and Purolator, it was the job of the local draymen and their horses to pick up packages and mail from the train station and deliver them to businesses throughout small communities. To revive that tradition the Dunmore Equestrian Society is hosting a Chore Team ... Read More »
1 responseTwo men charged with several mail theft and fraud related charges
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on June 14th, 2024
news@medicinehatnews.com Two Medicine Hat men have been charged with several offences relating to mail theft and fraud after police responded to a report of shoplifting from a local business Tuesday. Forty-one-year-old Kelly Fisher and 29-year-old Rainey Barker were apprehended near the scene in one of the suspect’s vehicles and after further investigation by police located ... Read More »
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