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"I think that this is a positive step forward," said Grade 12 student Rachel Brown, who, with classmate Katie Van der Sloot have garnered local and national science fair awards and international attention for their research into triclosan — a chemical used as an anti-bacterial agent that can be found in a wide range of household products.

The teen convicted of the triple murder of a Medicine Hat family in 2006 is "settling in" to the final stage of her 10-year sentence by working part-time and continuing post-secondary courses.

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith expects upgrades to the Medicine Hat Hospital will be high up on the ladder of priorities if her party is elected and they revamp how infrastructure projects are funded.

Court hears there is a low probability "of further acts of violence."

Len Mitzel will "absolutely" return the pay he received for sitting on a committee that has not met since 2008.

The general opinion appears to be good riddance to the penny as it gets set to make its departure from the nation's financial landscape, a victim of inflation. Thursday's federal budget stated the Royal Canadian Mint will strike the last of the little coins this fall.

It might have been the toughest night in MLA Len Mitzel's political career as he engaged a room full of landowners who were unrelenting in their criticism of the PC's land-use legislation on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old woman who was convicted for killing three members of the Richardson family when she was 12 is scheduled for her twice-annual sentence review Friday in Medicine Hat.

Ten people addressed topics ranging from industrial buffer-zones and protecting agricultural land, to how to best redevelop downtown and older communities at Wednesday's Municipal Planning Commission Meeting.