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Kenney makes final unity push in the Hat
gslade@medicinehatnews.com @MHNGillianSlade At the 11th hour to purchase a membership and vote to — or not to — unite the right, Jason Kenney attracted more than 125 people at a meeting in Medicine Hat on Tuesday. Today alone the PC party sold 2,314 memberships, with a cutoff of midnight on Wednesday in order to ... Read More »
Child killed in highway crash near Taber
Medicine Hat News One child is dead following a two vehicle collision Monday on Highway 36, north of Taber. A Volkswagen Jetta was travelling north on Hwy 36, while a Ford F-150 was travelling westbound on Range Road 110, failing to stop at a stop sign. The truck entered the highway and collided with the ... Read More »
Irrigation repairs at South Ridge Community Park causing some unkemptness in the area
Medicine Hat News Repairs to the irrigation system and water supply at South Ridge Community Park on Stratton Way are taking place and are expected to be complete by July 14. When pond levels are considered suitable, watering of the park will recommence. During these repairs there has been decreased mowing and fertilizing. This has ... Read More »
Pipeline company holding training exercises Thursday
Medicine Hat News TransCanada Pipelines will be holding field training exercises at Echo Dale Regional Park on Thursday. The boat launch area will be used for access to the South Saskatchewan River and the parking area used for equipment. Activities will commence around 8 a.m. with boats and boom deployment boats, while the afternoon session ... Read More »
Manitoban gets four months for her part in possession of stolen car
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell One of three Manitobans arrested in early June in relation to stolen property was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail. Elizabethe Racette appeared before the Medicine Hat courthouse by CCTV from the remand centre, entering guilty pleas to two counts of possessing stolen property, and breaching her probation. Due to time served, ... Read More »
Smaller companies pushing their way past the big guys
When the dinosaurs died, frogs began to thrive. According to a study released by the National Academy of Sciences this week, the reason for this, they surmise, “is that while the extinction event was devastating to forests, frogs are incredibly adaptable and able to exist in smaller microhabitats.” These findings may be about natural history, ... Read More »
Uproar about Halifax Canada Day protest is ‘gobbledygook’
The five Canadian Armed Forces members, Proud Boys, are being investigated, but they are now suspended for alleged racism against the protesters at the statue of General Cornwallis in Halifax on Canada Day. The so-called Mi’kmaq protestors did not include any Aboriginals. Chief Mama Grizzly is no aboriginal chief, she is some person from British ... Read More »
Guest Column: Western Canadian silence will hurt our trade opportunities, again
CALGARY That Western Canada has not been well served by the country’s trade agenda under the previous and current governments is not just a criticism of Ottawa; it’s a damming critique of how little westerners seem to care or how ineffective they’ve been in shaping national trade priorities. What we in the West have done ... Read More »
Local award winners honoured at Stampede
tkalinowski@medicinehatnews.com @MHNTimKal The Calgary Stampede honoured Monday night local BMO Family Farm Award winners A and B Acres and L. Gill Ventures. Andrew and Bev Dykstra are the owners of A and B Acres near Burdett. Andrew says his family was greatly honoured to have been chosen for this award. “I think it’s good company ... Read More »
Local couple praising rebate program after solar panel buy
mcranker@medicinehatnews.com @MHNmocranker Though he may not get to see the long-standing benefits, longtime Hatter Neville Palmer has decided to go green. Last month the government of Alberta launched the Residential and Commercial Solar Program, which offers rebates to homeowners, businesses and non-profits that install solar photovoltaic systems. Neville has lived in his Crescent Heights home ... Read More »
Everyone believed safe after Lethbridge seniors’ residence damaged by fire
Tijana Martin & Nick Kuhl Lethbridge Herald LETHBRIDGE All 140 residents of a westside seniors complex are believed to have been safely evacuated, and no major injuries were reported after a fire tore through part of the building Tuesday afternoon. About 35 Lethbridge firefighters responded to a fire at The Gardens complex on Garry Drive ... Read More »
