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Aug 21, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Aug 21, 2024 | 4:10 PM Residents of Medicine Hat have recently expressed concerns on social media about the bugs in their backyard gardens. While some of those bugs may have adverse effects, master gardener Genevieve Mathieu said that most are actually a major benefit. She also recommends planting companion plants that have a strong odour attract predatory insects or trap plants, one that is more appealing to pests.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Aug 20, 2024 | 4:39 PM While Alberta is celebrating a minor housing boom, homelessness remains a substantial issue. Extreme weather conditions are just as dangerous in the summer as they are in the winter, according to The Mustard Seed director of community and volunteer engagement David Cameron. “Whether it’s extremely cold or extremely hot, they both have a huge impact and a huge influence on our health,” Cameron said.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Aug 19, 2024 | 5:40 PM Medicine Hat and other southeastern Alberta municipalities are issuing more building permits as they face the same housing shortage challenges that nearly every city and town across Canada is dealing with. The Alberta government has seen some success trying to tackle the issue head on, with over 4,300 housing permits being issued last month alone.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Eli Ridder |Adrian St.Onge
“She still refused, she’s refused at least four attempts.” Those various attempts came before and after the power-limiting sanctions were placed on mayor Clark in March, according to Sharps. Coun. Cassi Hider said the tense exchange between Clark and City Manager Ann Mitchell at an August 2023 meeting that led to council’s charge of misconduct and various limitations on her power was not an isolated incident.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Aug 16, 2024 | 5:09 PM Medicine Hat city council will have until Oct. 31’s Halloween celebrations to either opt-in or opt-out of a proposed Alberta program to control municipal recycling that could save taxpayers money. The policy change would require packaging businesses to bear the responsibility of managing packaging products to the end of their life cycle.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
“The thing is though is that these two units, the South Alberta Light Horse, perpetuates these units, which means we honour their history, we preserve their history and the work that they did for our country.”Krause said that the 175th battallion was known as the “Medicine Hat Battalion” and saw action in Europe. A substantial amount of soldiers returning to the hat worked at the old IXL brick plant and according to Krause, was the biggest volunteer contributor to the monument.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Aug 12, 2024 | 4:23 PM Monday and Tuesday nights will be the best for stargazing as the Perseid meteor shower will be the most visible. The meteor shower has been occurring for the last few weeks, and will last for a few weeks more. Eagle Butte Observatory astronomer Rod Devries said that the next two evenings will give the best show. “Some people think meteor shower, meteor storm, it’s going to be like just raining, right?
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By SMILE SUNDAY Aug 11, 2024 | 8:30 AM The Medicine Hat Major AAA U12 Mavs season ended a few runs short of going to the Little League World Series. Head coach Steve Russell said that the defeat leaves a bitter taste in their mouthes, but still takes a lot of pride in putting Medicine Hat junior baseball back on the map. “You know, at the beginning of the year, we knew we had a good team going into it..
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Aug 9, 2024 | 3:22 PM The Medicine Hat Alberta Pound and Rescue Center is hosting a canine adoption event Saturday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.Working alongside the True North K9 Compound, five of the 15 dogs will be made available to visit with and hopefully go to a good home. It’s more than just adoption, according to APARC coordinator Bethany Rann.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
chatnewstoday.ca | Adrian St.Onge
By Jul 30, 2024 | 5:14 PM Calls by a business owner to the Medicine Hat downtown police unit have gone unanswered in recent weeks amid a rise in construction. Pete Rose, owner of Round Again Records, said he doesn’t see the patrol unit as much as he did before construction projects kicked off downtown in July. “I get it, they can’t be everywhere, but sometimes I feel like they’re nowhere,” Rose told CHAT News on Tuesday.
