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GILLIAN SLADE This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Twitter: GillianNews 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 ... (more)

SANDRA M. STANWAY Brooks Bulletin Another phase in the construction of the Cassils to Bowmanton transmission line in the Brooks area began last Tuesday along Highway 36.

Irvine, a tiny community east of Medicine Hat on the Trans-Canada Highway, was among a number of areas hit hard by massive floods in June 2010.

Patrick LeBlanc, theatre manager and his staff are planning a Gala Anniversary event on February 18 to celebrate 20 years of great entertainment in the 600-seat theatre.

Having arrived in Medicine Hat and Alberta less than a month ago, I don't feel qualified to jump in and pontificate on most topics.

The cash flow crunch caused by the mad cow crisis is taking its toll on Alberta businesses as producers are unable to pay some of their most basic bills.

A Medicine Hat family is closely watching the last-ditch efforts to help save a Manitoba-based international adoption agency from going under.

On Tuesday evening, city council reconvenes in the ongoing saga of budget deliberations.

For four days, Tim Elliott of Medicine Hat, Alta., had almost $25 million hidden in the corner of his wallet and he didn't even know it.

Alberta and Ottawa have announced a joint $50 million a year monitoring strategy for Alberta's oilsands that will greatly increase the area and amount of testing of land, air and water as well as... Bob Barker is the retired game show host who refuses to quit.

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A couple from southeastern Alberta who won nearly $25 million in Lotto 6-49 say they plan to help family and friends - and retire to the Okanagan valley in British Columbia.

I recently arranged a meeting with Kim Laing, St. John Ambulance director of regional development for southern Alberta, to find out more about the organization and in particular its move to a new, larger building this year.

This being my first column in 2012, gives me cause to look at this February and reflect on how it compared to 2011.

Chinook Energy Inc. is selling oil-producing assets in the Mannyberries area of southeastern Alberta to the City of Medicine Hat for about $36.2 million.

Members of the Biker Enforcement Unit rip the Outlaws sign off the wall of the London, Ont.

Ticked Off At a local overpaid minor hockey official who is publicly campaigning for the next municipal election while rarely being seen at minor hockey functions.

The City of Medicine Hat has approved a $48.6 million deal to buy oil producing properties from Chinook Energy .

On Wednesday, RCMP pulled a vehicle over on the Trans-Canada Highway near Redcliff and found a cocaine stash inside.

Darren Hirsch thanks PC members at Higdon Hall after capturing the Tory nomination for the Medicine Hat riding on Saturday.--NEWS PHOTO ALEX MCCUAIG Says party is united ALEX McCUAIG This e-mail address is being protected from spambots.

It's odd days indeed to be a voter in Alberta as the closer the election gets the harder it's becoming to nail down which direction the PCs are heading.