Brooks RCMP have laid charges against two men after a bar fight two months ago. A 19-year-old and a 23-year-old were charged with assault causing bodily harm, Mounties said Monday. Police in April said two men were allegedly attacked outside Red Sea Bar on April 12. Police responded to a call at about 3:19 a.m. reporti...

Defence lawyers representing five hockey players accused of sexual assault closed their case Monday, wrapping up testimony in a trial that has heard from nine witnesses over roughly six weeks, including the complainant and one of the accused. Lawyers for the defence and the Crown are set to make legal submissions next ...

A shooting at a downtown Medicine Hat apartment building early on Saturday appears to have been a "targeted incident," police say. Officers arrived at the Mayfair Manor high rise at 407 Fifth Ave. S.E. to find a male victim with multiple injuries in the parking lot of the complex.He was treated at the Medicin...

One of five hockey players accused of sexual assault testified Friday he went to a London, Ont., hotel room hoping for and expecting a sexual encounter with an unknown woman but didn't know anything about what the woman wanted when he got there. Carter Hart told the court he saw a text from teammate Michael McLeod to t...

The invitation to take part in a threesome came in a text message, followed by a phone call, one of five hockey players accused of sexual assault testified Thursday. Carter Hart told a London, Ont., courthouse he was outside a bar with two other players in the early hours of June 19, 2018, when he saw the message teamm...

The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is watching a video of an interview one of the accused gave to police months after the alleged incident. Michael McLeod spoke with the lead investigator in the case at the time, Det. Steve Newton, at his lawyer's office in November 201...

Medicine Hat police said Monday no charges were filed after receiving a report of a dispute involving a firearm. At about 10:36 p.m. last Friday, members of the Medicine Hat Police Service responded to a 13th Avenue Southeast business. It was reported that two individuals had a verbal argument, during which one of them...

Police have arrested several minors after a Medicine Hat liquor store was robbed. Four youths allegedly stole alcohol from a shop on Carry Drive Southeast on May 7. An altercation occurred when an employee confronted the individuals but the staff member wasn't harmed. Seven days later, police identified and arrested th...

An Ontario judge has rejected prosecutors' final attempt to have a text message sent by a former world junior hockey player admitted as evidence in the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates. In the text, Brett Howden describes to another then-teammate seeing one of the accused, Dillon Dube, slap the complain...

Decades after Roy Allan Sobotiak was sentenced to life for the killing of an Edmonton woman, the 61-year-old is set to walk out of prison. Alberta Court of King's Bench Justice Eric Macklin granted bail Friday to Sobotiak, who was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Susan Kaminsky. His conviction was quashed in Februar...

Editor's Note: The following story contains graphic content some readers may find disturbing. A former member of Canada's world junior hockey team briefly broke down in tears Thursday at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates as he faced questions over texts he sent a week after the encounter at the heart...

An Ontario judge has ruled there is no basis to find that a former member of Canada's world junior hockey team was being untruthful about his lack of memory while testifying at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates. Prosecutors sought to cross-examine their own witness, Brett Howden, on more than a dozen...

Police say a truck collided with a house near the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. Officers responded to a report a vehicle hit a home on the 600 block of Prospect Drive Southwest on Tuesday evening. The truck collided with the door of an attached garage, travelled through the door and struck a parked vehicle inside, po...

Members of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team discussed what to tell Hockey Canada investigators looking into their encounter with a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room, court heard Thursday in the sexual assault trial of five players. Players exchanged a series of messages roughly a week after the June 2018 encoun...

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to face more questions from prosecutors today. Defence lawyers finished cross-examining the woman Tuesday, and the Crown now has the opportunity to follow up on any topics raised in that process. This ...

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former world junior hockey players told their trial Tuesday they were men, not boys, at the time of the alleged incident. The complainant, who was 20 at the time, has referred to the players and their other teammates as men throughout her testimony, which began mor...

Police are investigating a series of vehicle graffiti incidents in Brooks. Brooks RCMP responded a report of vehicle vandalism at about 4:30 p.m. on May 8. A blue line was spray painted across the front grille of an SUV in the Shoppers Drugmart parking lot, police said in a news release. A similar occurrence was report...

Allegations laid out in a sexual-assault lawsuit against Hockey Canada and eight unnamed players cannot be used as proof of any wrongdoing in the ongoing criminal trial of five hockey players, jurors in the case heard Thursday. A woman whose identity cannot be disclosed launched a lawsuit in the spring of 2022 alleging...

Defence lawyers are expected to continue cross-examining the complainant today in the sexual assault trial of five hockey players. The woman, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, agreed under cross-examination Wednesday that she took on a "porn star persona" as a coping mechanism while in a hotel...

A defence lawyer for one of five ex-world junior hockey teammates on trial for sexual assault is suggesting a woman made allegations against them because she thought her boyfriend would leave her if she told him she'd had "group sex with a bunch of hockey players." Megan Savard, one of the lawyers representin...

Defence lawyers for one of five hockey players accused of sexual assault suggested Tuesday that the complainant was the one to bring up calling other players into a hotel room in June 2018 because she wanted to have a "wild night." David Humphrey, who represents Michael McLeod, suggested during cross-examinat...

A Brooks man was arrested by Mounties in a residential garage last week, police say. Brooks RCMP say they received reports of a disturbance in the area of Meadowbrook Green East at about 9 a.m. on April 29. Officers found a 54-year-old man with facial injuries, according to a news release. An investigation revealed he ...

A woman told the sexual assault trial of five hockey players Monday that she felt "numb and on autopilot" going through sexual acts with a group of men she didn't know in a hotel room seven years ago. The woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, told the court she was naked, drunk and scared w...

A woman is telling the sexual assault trial of five hockey players she was drunk and not fully aware of her surroundings as she navigated a "chaotic" dance floor at the bar where she first encountered some of the accused. The woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, says she had at least eight...

The sex assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to hear more testimony today from Taylor Raddysh, an NHL player who was also on the 2018 world junior team. Raddysh, who plays for the Washington Capitals, took the stand remotely from Arlington, Va., on Wednesday afternoon. M...

The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is set to continue today in London, Ont. Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have all pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in connection with an encounter at a hotel room in the city in 2018. McLeo...

Medicine Hat police say they seized a modified weapon after making a pair of arrests earlier this week. Patrol officers at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area of Valleyview Drive Southwest, police say. Interactions with the occupants of that vehicle led to the arrest of o...

Prosecutors are laying out the evidence they expect to present as the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team begins in London, Ont., today. Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote, and Alex Formenton have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault. McLeod has also pleaded...