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Western Canada’s largest solar array in Brooks will expand 200 per cent
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 28th, 2019
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The owner of Western Canada’s largest solar panel array plans to expand the facility near Brooks by nearly 200 per cent, according to an announcement Thursday by provincial regulators. Elemental Energy, which commissioned the 15-megawatt generating facility beside the Trans-Canada Highway in 2017, has applied to build future phases on two adjoining quarter sections. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Water levels on the decline after weekend river flow advisory
By Medicine Hat News on June 26th, 2019
River levels appear to be waning upstream of Medicine Hat after a high-stream flow advisory was issued over the weekend. The warning for the Bow River basin, from Banff eastward through Calgary, was extended to the Bassano Dam on Monday as heavy weekend precipitation made its way downstream. However, forecasters with Alberta environment stated on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AHS announces routine sickle cell disease screening for newborns
By Medicine Hat News on June 22nd, 2019
Alberta Health Services will now provide routine testing on newborn babies for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease causes red blood cells to have a crescent moon or sickle shape and become trapped in blood vessels, causing pain, damage to tissue and premature breakdown of the red blood cells, AHS stated in a press release. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UCP leaving provincial climate change division as is
By GILLIAN SLADE on June 22nd, 2019
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade The UCP government says it has made no changes to the climate change office/division within the environment ministry since it was elected. In 2016 an NDP cabinet shuffle included an announcement that a new “climate change office” had been created to help implement the government’s climate leadership plan. The new office would report to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Just two cannabis-impaired charges laid thus far
By JEREMY APPEL on June 22nd, 2019
jappel@medicinehatnews.com@MHNJeremyAppel The Medicine Hat Police Service have arrested just two people for cannabis-impaired driving since legalization in October 2018. This constitutes half the drug-impaired driving charges laid in the time span, Insp. Brent Secondiak told the Medicine Hat Police Commission at its Thursday night meeting. The other two were for driving under the influence of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!YMCA forced to drop Get Active
By JEREMY APPEL on June 22nd, 2019
jappel@medicinehatnews.com@MHNJeremyAppel The YMCA’s Get Active program, which promotes physical activity among kids at four schools in lower-income neighbourhoods, is ending this fall due to a lack of funding. The program operated at Elm Street, St. Louis, I.F. Cox and Southview Schools. Sharon Hayward, the CEO of YMCA Medicine Hat, told the News the grants and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City money locked in limbo
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 22nd, 2019
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Barring an emergency ratification of the North American free trade deal, the House of Commons is done its business for the spring and likely before the October election. That means that the pre-campaign period of program and spending announcements should begin soon (indeed, some say, it’s underway). However, the lining up of elections may ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Though it never actually closed, Police Point interpretive centre hosts grand re-opening with new look
By COLLIN GALLANT on June 22nd, 2019
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant After two years of construction, the upgrades to the Police Point Park interpretive centre are complete – and if you hadn’t been paying attention, or seen the previous incarnation, you’d think it was a brand new 37-year-old building. “We chuckle that its a grand re-opening but we never closed,” said Corlaine Gardner, the park’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After ‘perfect’ proposal, Porter to start planning Medicine Hat wedding
By medicinehatnews on June 21st, 2019
cbrown@medicinehatnews.com@MHNBrown MacKenzie Porter plans to say her vows in Medicine Hat next summer. “My fiance is from South Carolina and he – like most guys – doesn’t care as much as I care where it is,” Porter said Friday. “I have such a big family and he’s got a bit of a smaller family so ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local river level sits well below average
By medicinehatnews on June 21st, 2019
Heavy showers in the foothills west of Calgary and a forecast of up to four inches of rain in some parts of the Bow River Valley have led river forecasters to expand a high stream flow advisory on the Bow River. That now extends to the Carseland Weir, west of Gleichen on the Bow, which ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hemp processor moving ahead with Edmonton-area expansions
By Medicine Hat News on June 21st, 2019
A hemp processing company with ties to Aurora Cannabis is moving ahead with the second and third expansion of its Edmonton-area facilities that will process plant mass grown in Medicine Hat. Radient Technologies extracts CBD oil out of cannabis and hemp plant material which in 2017 signed a partnership to process the lucrative byproduct for ... Read More »
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