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Dwight Luscombe and Ray Lambert are two seniors who navigate around Medicine Hat on their mobility scooters, which have a range of between 40-45 km/h on a single charge. Lambert

Residential area street sweeping begins Monday downtown Poll Yes A City of Medicine Hat worker drives a street sweeper down Carry Drive in this 2019 file photo. The annual residential street-sweep program begins Monday.--NEWS FILE PHOTO No-parking signs will be going up on side streets starting Monday as the annual residential road street sweeping program begins. Cleaning up high volume and priority routes have been ongoing this spring, and this week cleaners begin moving in to 17 zones to pick up gravel and debris. This year’s program begins in the downtown then moves to Norwood, as zones ...

Hatter wins $100K on Lotto Max Poll Yes Kieron Burgess won $100,000 on the Feb. 26 Lotto Max EXTRA draw.--SUBMITTED PHOTO A local man is $100,000 richer after taking home the cash in a Feb. 26 Lotto Max EXTRA draw. The day after the draw, Kieron Burgess checked his ticket on a smartphone app and was more than a little surprised to see it come up a winner. “I checked my ticket the day after the draw on the Lotto Spot! app,” he said. “When I saw $100,000 on the screen I was shocked and so happy.” Burgess’s winning ticket was bought at the Fas Gas Plus location at the Dunmore Road and...

Well known crabapple scheduled to come down Poll Were you surprised the UCP government went back to stage one of its reopening plan on Tuesday? Yes The crabapple tree on the traffic island near the intersection of Third Street and Division Avenue is set to come down as work crews prepare to complete sewer work in the area and realign the busy intersection.--NEWS PHOTO COLLIN GALLANT A busy intersection leading in and out of downtown will see work this summer as a revamp of nearby water mains is completed. The crabapple tree at the intersection of Third Street and Division Ave. will be chopped...

Grants add $11 million to city summer construction Poll Were you surprised the UCP government went back to stage one of its reopening plan on Tuesday? Yes The Linden Lot, across from city hall in downtown Medicine Hat, is set to become additional office space as the building on the site will be expanded thanks to a federal government grant to move construction projects forward as economic stimulus coming out of the COVID pandemic. The city owned building, which was once rented to Canada Post's downtown branch, currently houses the city's health safety and environment offices.--NEWS FILE PHOTO...