Contemporary Issues
City Council chose the Box Springs Business Park site in August 2008 for the new events centre, however in July of 2012, announced that the decision to locate the facility in Box Springs would be reviewed. Currently the city is working to secure funding.
The City of Medicine Hat, the Town of Redcliff and Cypress County are together working on a plan that will govern the location and intensity of growth around the city for the next 50 years.
Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation is currently negotiating with landowners south of the city to secure land for the future Trans-Canada Highway freeway bypass. The bypass is expected to be constructed in the next 10–20 years.
The average home price has climbed to $239,000 in May 2007.
Long-serving MP Monte Solberg revealed in September 2008 that he would not be running in the next election. LaVar Payne won election as MP for Medicine Hat in the subsequent election in October, 2008, and again in 2011. Both Solberg and Payne are members of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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