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Lordco Auto Parts Is Open in Medicine Hat at 64 Carry Drive SE: Hours, What Is in the Store and the September 12 Grand Opening
Medicine Hat Pays 7 Cents a Kilowatt-Hour While the Rest of Alberta Pays 12. Here Is Why, and What Changes October 1
Medicine Hat Stampede 2026: Schedule, Tickets, Gate Prices and Everything Still to Come This Week
Southern Alberta Fire Danger Is Climbing as the Heat Peaks: Where Fire Bans Are in Effect Right Now
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Lordco Auto Parts Is Open in Medicine Hat at 64 Carry Drive SE: Hours, What Is in the Store and the September 12 Grand Opening
Lordco Auto Parts has opened in the old Peavey Mart building at 64 Carry Drive SE, its seventh Alberta store and the 87th in a Western Canada network. Eighteen people work there, 17 of them hired locally, under a manager who transferred from Revelstoke. It is open seven days a week, and the public grand opening is Saturday, September 12. Here are the hours, what the store actually carries, and what it means that a big box empty since the Peavey Mart collapse has a tenant again.
Medicine Hat Pays 7 Cents a Kilowatt-Hour While the Rest of Alberta Pays 12. Here Is Why, and What Changes October 1
Medicine Hat households pay 7.000 cents a kilowatt-hour. The default rate in Calgary and Edmonton is 12.01. The City's own calculation for this quarter came in at 4.47 cents — below the 7-cent floor written into its rate bylaw, so residents pay the floor, and the margin helps fund a multi-million-dollar dividend back to the City. Here is how the only municipally owned generation, distribution and retail utility in Alberta sets your rate, what it saved you in 2025, what the October 1 reset does, and why December 31 matters more.
Medicine Hat Stampede 2026: Schedule, Tickets, Gate Prices and Everything Still to Come This Week
The Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede is on now through Saturday, July 25, with the Summer Pro Rodeo, the West Coast Amusements midway, and Johnny Reid closing out the night shows. Gate admission is $12, kids are $6, and Friday afternoon is a Double Toonie window. Here's everything still ahead, what tickets actually include, and the midway math worth knowing.
Southern Alberta Fire Danger Is Climbing as the Heat Peaks: Where Fire Bans Are in Effect Right Now
Southern Alberta is in the hottest, driest stretch of summer, and fire risk is climbing with it. Lethbridge's River Valley is under a full fire ban, Cypress County around Medicine Hat has had one of its worst fire seasons in years, and a dry-lightning threat is forecast to push toward the Alberta border this week. But the status is patchy, banned in some places, clear in others. Here's where things stand and how to check your own area.
Planet Fitness Is Opening a 16,000-Square-Foot Gym Inside the Medicine Hat Walmart
A 16,000-square-foot Planet Fitness is under construction inside the Walmart at 2075 Strachan Road SE in Medicine Hat, with an opening planned for fall 2026. It's the chain's latest Canadian location, built around low-cost memberships and, for Black Card members, extras like massage loungers. Here's what's coming and what it means for the city.
Medicine Hat Approves Affordable Seniors Housing for Indigenous Elders on Spencer Street: What's Being Built and When
Medicine Hat city council has unanimously approved donating a surplus parcel at 301 Spencer Street SE to the Miywasin Friendship Centre, along with a $412,000 transfer from capital reserves, to build affordable housing for Indigenous Elders. The project will bring 16 to 20 independent-living units to a piece of city land that has sat empty since the 1970s. Here is what's planned, how it's funded, and the timeline.
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