Medicine Hat News

Man found dead in Mounties shooting case; search on for suspect

KILLAM, Alta. - RCMP confirm one man has been found dead in a rural Alberta house where two Mounties were shot.

Four-day 'lei' over has WestJet Maui customers fuming

After waiting many hours on each of four days for WestJet to provide a replacement flight from Maui, a Medicine Hat resident says the "lei over" in Maui was badly handled and the compensation WestJet offered after it was all over was an insult.

Cuts can solve tax hike: alderman

Jeremy Thompson is confident that a possible property tax hike of 4.9 per cent can be cut in half by relatively painless cuts and reorganizations in city operations. On Monday, the alderman's queries about reducing a three-year budget plan by using a zero-based budget approach was met by a long list of eye-popping suggestions for cuts.

Incident ends in body found

City police and Redcliff RCMP attended an incident on North Railway Street Tuesday evening shortly after 8 p.m. A body was reportedly found at the scene. A white SUV parked on the south side of North Railway was towed away by police.

Rare off-night for Hounds

The bantam AAA Hockey Hounds had a reality check game Saturday. The Hounds have led the Ram South Division of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League basically from wire to wire this season.

Rattlers pull a tease Men's volleyball club shows potential in split with first place team

While they are battling for the last playoff berth in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, the Rattlers pulled out a split off of the conference's first place team in the Briercrest College Clippers.

Not what the captain ordered Mayer disappointed Cubs miss post-season for second year in a row

Logan Mayer is going to have the whole off-season to think about the ones that got away. As his Medicine Hat Hockey Hounds Cubs headed into their final weekend of regular season play, they were in the driver's seat for locking down a playoff berth.

Review: Authentic Cochrane wows crowd in Hat

A hooting, whistling, cheering and completely enthusiastic crowd greeted Cochrane, who brought with him the arsenal of songs that has made him a Canadian staple for decades.

Environmental design is key, Hatters hear

"Permaculture is a design system based in science, guided by ethics, inspired by nature to design sustainable habitat," said Rob Avis with Calgary-based Verge Permaculture, who led the full-day workshop attended by 13 locals at Medicine Hat College.

Spring ski conditions in February

"It's cool because there's no snow in Medicine Hat to shovel, but there's snow out here," said 16-year-old Dylan Yeast, who spent Sunday snowboarding at Hidden Valley Ski Resort in Cypress Hills alongside his friend Ozzy Schimpf.