@@CollinGallant The plunging price of power in Alberta will likely cut into dividend forecasts for the City of Medicine Hat, at the same time administrators say there could be a cash crunch to complete projects and balance the budget. The city’s power plant boomed out a $134-million dividend in 2024, thanks largely to record high
Read More »@MedicineHatNews A 14-year-old girl was killed in a motor vehicle collision near Coaldale on Tuesday morning. RCMP say they and other emergency personnel responded to the collision at the intersection of Township Road 102 and Range Road 221 in Lethbridge County at roughly 9:40 a.m. Two vehicles were involved in the collision and the two ... Read More »
6 hours ago@@CollinGallant The plunging price of power in Alberta will likely cut into dividend forecasts for the City of Medicine Hat, at the same time administrators say there could be a cash crunch to complete projects and balance the budget. The city’s power plant boomed out a $134-million dividend in 2024, thanks largely to record high ... Read More »
6 hours ago[email protected] Opening night for Medicine Hat Firehall Theatre’s dinner theatre is fast approaching, and the cast is feeling just about ready to bring the show to life. Honky Tonk Laundry, says director Luanne Schneider, follows the story of Lana Mae and Katie Lane as their friendship develops over the course of some classic country tracks ... Read More »
6 hours ago[email protected]@ReporterTubb The Crescent Heights Vikings Sr. football team have an easy approach to the season. Head coach Anthony Anderson has kept the message simple with his team, play every game like it’s the last of the season. “You have to play as hard as you can,” Anderson said. The Vikings kicked off their season last ... Read More »
6 hours ago[email protected]@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Lawn Bowling Club handed out the top titles over the last week. On Sept. 3, the local club crowed the league pairs finals. Cave and Janette Starling won their first H. J. Cove Memorial Trophy with a 12-7 win over Wes Bresee and Jim Clegg. Mike Gilchrist and Luanne Kennedy took ... Read More »
6 hours ago[email protected]@ReporterTubb Medicine Hat Tigers practice was noticeably smaller on Tuesday. With 11 skaters with the team off to NHL rookie camps, the Tigers are working through practices and the remaining two preseason games with a few veterans, NHL draft-year skaters, rookies and prospects for the final week of the exhibition season. They’re coming off a ... Read More »
6 hours agoMotorists driving south from Costco on Box Springs Boulevard see a series of mini billboards that really don’t do much for me. Even travelling at the 50 km/h speed limit, my eyes and brain can’t read the entire message on the signs. The first one says: “This could be the day your heart stops…” and ... Read More »
6 hours agoHello readers. I am here with another update on my partner’s health, and boy have things changed since my last article. He was discharged from the Rockyview Hospital after they did a biopsy on his kidney. I was back at home working when I got the call that he was coming home. The doctor told ... Read More »
1 week agoAll I can do is add my voice to the sympathies extended to those close to former Flames’ hockey star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew, who were killed last Thursday night on the eve of their sister’s wedding in New Jersey while riding their bicycles and being run over by an alleged drunk driver. ... Read More »
1 week agoDear editor, I’ve always been proud I was born in Medicine Hat and spent my first 21 years there. Wherever I’ve travelled, I’ve kept in touch through family and friends and have been impressed by the city\’s growth and progress on my occasional visits. The endless sniping and bickering between the current mayor and council ... Read More »
1 week agoDear editor, Re: Judicial Review of City of Medicine Hat council motion to sanction Mayor Linnsie Clark, held Aug. 13, 2024) While the mayor’s legal counsel portrayed the defence in the judicial review as simple and straightforward, it is evident that there was a deeper layer of truth understood by city council that was not ... Read More »
3 weeks agoDear editor, Our provincial government is in the process of changing Mental Health and Addictions to Recovery Alberta. I have heard lately discussions of how certain serious mental disorders do not fit into Recovery. Over the last couple of years the language has changed from Mental Illness to Mental Health, and Mental Health seems to ... Read More »
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