Home and Garden Show
Grande Prairie Home and Garden Show taking place at Evergreen Park April 19-21
The largest home show in the Peace Country is happening at Evergreen Park this weekend.The Grande Prairie Home and Garden Show, sponsored by the County of Grande Prairie, will be running at the TARA Centre, with over 250 booths showcasing various garden ideas, home design and landscaping examples, renovation inspiratio...
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ED Closure
Beaverlodge ED without an onsite physician for 24 hours
The Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital Emergency Department will be without an onsite physician for 24 hours starting at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 18.During the closures, nursing staff will remain on-site to perform urgent triage, assessments and referrals to neighbouring facilities. Any residents experiencing a medical em...
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Peace Region
GPPS
Grande Prairie Police Service unveil new vehicles and uniforms
The Grande Prairie Police Service has unveiled its new vehicles.(Photo Credit: Everything GP Staff/ Nathaniel Leigh)Two new police cars were put on display for a media event in front of Centre 2000 on Wednesday, to show off the cars as well as the new police uniforms.(Photo Credit: Everything GP Staff/ Nathaniel Leigh)...
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Home and Garden Show
Grande Prairie Home and Garden Show taking place at Evergreen Park April 19-21
The largest home show in the Peace Country is happening at Evergreen Park this weekend.The Grande Prairie Home and Garden Show, sponsored by the County of Grande Prairie, will be running at the TARA Centre, with over 250 booths showcasing various garden ideas, home design and landscaping examples, renovation inspiratio...
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ED Closure
Beaverlodge ED without an onsite physician for 24 hours
The Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital Emergency Department will be without an onsite physician for 24 hours starting at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 18.During the closures, nursing staff will remain on-site to perform urgent triage, assessments and referrals to neighbouring facilities. Any residents experiencing a medical em...
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Spring Thaw
County of Grande Prairie implements gravel road bans
The County of Grande Priaire will be implementing road bans on all gravel roads, starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 19.During the ban, all gravel roads will be at 75 per cent axle weight, with anyone wanting to operate overweight on any of the affected gravel roads requiring a permit. The county issues these road ban...
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Applications being accepted
City of Grande Prairie Clean Energy Improvement Program open for 2024
Applications are now being accepted for the city's 2024 Clean Energy Improvement Program.Introduced to the community last year, this program is returning "to support residents in reducing their energy consumption, benefiting from cost savings, improving property values and to help achieve the community's sustainab...
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Dawson Creek
Dawson Creek asking residents to help in making future plans for the city
City Hall in Dawson Creek is asking residents to help update the Official Community Plan.A release says this document "sets a vision for the next 20 years and outlines priorities and policies for the city to work toward."The plan outlines policies and spending plans in areas like transportation, housing, land...
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Local Sports
Volleyball
Grande Prairie born player headed to Volleyball Canada Hall of Fame
A Grande Prairie-born, Saskatoon-raised player is going into the Volleyball Canada Hall of Fame.Gavin Schmidt played for the national team from 2007 to 2016 after playing in the ACAC and at the university level.He won a bronze medal with Team Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto and represented our country in the...
Apr 16, 2024
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2024 Northwest Alberta Sports Excellence award recipients
The winners of the Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection's 2024 Northwest Alberta Sport Excellence awards were announced at a ceremony at Clarkson Hall on Friday, April 12.Two new categories were added this year, the Junior Official of the Year award, and the Spirit of Sport award.Thirteen athletes, community member...
Apr 15, 2024
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Chuckwagons
Top bid of $160,000 for drivers from the Peace at the Rangeland Derby tarp auction
Chanse Vigen and Dayton Sutherland tied for the top bid among drivers from the Peace at Thursday's tarp auction for the Calgary Stampede's Rangeland Derby.The tarps on their wagons sold for $160,000.00 each. They were third overall behind Kris Molle's $210,000.00 and Kurt Bensmiller's $175,000.00. Molle drew the top bi...
Apr 12, 2024
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Agriculture
Spring Thaw
County of Grande Prairie implements gravel road bans
The County of Grande Priaire will be implementing road bans on all gravel roads, starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 19.During the ban, all gravel roads will be at 75 per cent axle weight, with anyone wanting to operate overweight on any of the affected gravel roads requiring a permit. The county issues these road ban...
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4-H
Grande Prairie 4-H member wins provincial competition
A 16-year-old from Grande Prairie won the recent 4-H Alberta Provincial Communications Competition.Waylon K. - his last name was not released because of his age - finished first among 28 competitors with a speech about "defying expectations and being yourself," according to a release from competition sponsor ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Agriculture
April 30 the deadline to become an Open Farm Days host
April 30 is the deadline for interested operations to sign up to be host farms for Alberta Open Farm Days.CEO Tim Carson says 110 places had signed up to be hosts as of last Thursday.He says worries about drought and wildfires have not kept any interested places from taking part."We had to have some alterations ov...
Apr 16, 2024
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Alberta
Health
Health Minister LaGrange reveals plan with AMA for new compensation model for rural and family doctors
The provincial government has unveiled plans with the Alberta Medical Association on a new compensation model for rural generalist practicians and family physicians. Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange says the province has heard the worries from Albertans of not being able to find a family doctor, or trouble getting i...
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DEVELOPING
Alberta's Bill 18 increases federal funding odds for Medicine Hat, says minister
Medicine Hat is more likely to receive federal cash through proposed legislation that requires approval from the Alberta government for deals with Ottawa, municipal affairs minister Ric McIver said Tuesday."There is upcoming no money flowing to Medicine Hat, and there's the problem," McIver told CHAT News.&qu...
Apr 16, 2024
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Fire
TC Energy responding to pipeline incident near Edson
TC Energy Corp. says it is actively responding to an incident involving its NGTL natural gas pipeline system in west-central Alberta.The Calgary-based pipeline company did not provide further details about the nature of the incident, which it said took place approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Edson, Alta. in Yell...
Apr 16, 2024
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Kingpins or go-betweens? Jurors hear closing arguments in Coutts blockade trial
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A Crown prosecutor making the case against three men charged with mischief at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade told jurors Tuesday they don't have to determine the accused were protest kingpins to find them guilty. Lawyers for the defence, though, argue their clients were moderates who played a sm...
Apr 16, 2024
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Canada
In the news today: Foreign aid increasing, housing and labour shortages linked
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Liberals buck global trend in raising foreign aid Foreign aid groups are hailing the federal Liberal government's return to a policy of increasing humanitarian and development spending each year whil...
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Liberals buck global trend in 'doubling down' on foreign aid, as sector urges G7 push
OTTAWA - Foreign aid groups are hailing the federal Liberal government's return to a policy of increasing humanitarian and development spending each year, while asking for a plan to push allies to reverse a global decline in aid. "It was a good moment for Canada to step up and show global leadership by making this...
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Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility
MONTREAL - On warm days, Montreal's Lachine Canal can attract thousands of picnickers, cyclists and pedestrians. But since Parks Canada recently removed around 30 trash bins from the paths along the historic waterway, Ariana Ranjbar says she has begun to notice a new phenomenon at one popular lawn. "I started not...
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It's the biggest election in history. Here's why few Indians in Canada will take part
OTTAWA - Parmod Chhabra is deeply invested in the Indian general election that gets underway on Friday, with almost a billion people eligible to vote, but he won't be casting a ballot. Nor will the vast majority of the overseas Indian community in Canada. The reasons are simple. India requires overseas citizens to trav...
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'Off the rails': Schoenborn hearing adjourned, lawyer refuses to appear before board
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A hearing for AllanSchoenborn, who killed his three children in 2008, has ended with an abrupt adjournment after his lawyer told the British Columbia Review Board he would no longer appear in front of its current panel. Lawyer Rishi Gill says he continues to represent Schoenborn, who was found not cri...
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Here's more about Ottawa's plan to turn post offices, historic armouries into housing
OTTAWA - A 1970s Canada Post building in Alberta and stone Quebec City army barracks dating back to 1856 are just some of the public lands the Liberal government plans to turn into homes. The idea, outlined in the federal budget released Tuesday, is to use federally owned sites across the country to help ease the Canad...
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World
Judge in Trump hush money trial orders journalists not to report on prospective jurors' jobs
NEW YORK (AP) - The judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered journalists in court not to report prospective jurors' answers to questions about their current and former employers. The answers also will be redacted from court transcripts. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows belo...
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The Latest | Jury selection enters a pivotal stretch as Trump's hush money trial resumes
NEW YORK (AP) - Jury selection in Donald Trump 's hush money trial enters a pivotal phase as the former president returns to court. Attorneys will need to pick 12 more jurors to serve on the panel that will decide the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. commander-in-chief after a previously seated juror was ...
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US and UK issue new sanctions on Iran in response to Tehran's weekend attack on Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. and U.K. on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran as concern grows that Tehran's unprecedented attack on Israel could fuel a wider war in the Middle East. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the dr...
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