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Peace Region News

City Hall
Bear Creek Reservoir will not fill in 2024, may not until 2026
More work is needed on the spillway in Muskoseepi Park.That means the Bear Creek Reservoir will not fill this year and may not fill again until 2026.The city's Brian Glavin says an engineering inspection found something called armouring is needed."When we did our studies on the dam, there were numerous upgrades th...
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Census
County of Grande Prairie Census opens in April
The County of Grande Prairie's Census will launch on April 3.According to the county, this is being done because since 2021, the county has taken responsibility for the dissolved Village of Hythe and the provincial government requires them to review their number of councillors and election boundaries before the 2025 el...
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RCMP
Grande Prairie RCMP ask for public help locating stolen RCMP quads and trailer
Grande Prairie RCMP is asking for the public's help in locating two marked RCMP quads and an RCMP flat-deck trailer. On Tuesday, March 26, Mounties were made aware their Grande Prairie County Community and Enforcement Services locked compound in Clairmont, was broken into on Monday, March 25, with the thieves making aw...
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Women's Shelters
Peace River Women's Shelter back to full operations next week
Work is nearly complete at the Peace River Regional Women's Shelter after the discovery of black mould late last year while doing renovations to their facility. The mould was uncovered during a small project involving windows and siding, which spiraled into extensive reclamation work to safely get rid of the toxic fung...
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Alberta

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Parkland Corp. selling 157 gas and convenience store locations
Fuel retailer Parkland Corp. has put 157 of its gas and convenience store locations across six provinces up for sale.The Calgary-based company said Tuesday it is partnering with NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC and Colliers Canada to find buyers.The assets up for sale include locations under the Chevron, Ultramar,...
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Alberta government requesting more control over provincial immigration system
Premier Danielle Smith has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau related to Alberta's immigration system. The Smith government is asking Trudeau to re-evaluate Ottawa's decision limiting the number of allocations for Alberta's provincial nominee program in 2024. Last week, the federal government told the pr...
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Alberta introduces 'apprenticeship-style model' for Class 1 drivers
There will soon be a new way for Albertans to become commercial truck drivers.The Government of Alberta says it is improving Class 1 licensing and training with a new, made-in-Alberta learning pathway.Described as an "apprenticeship-style model," it aims to offer an opportunity for Albertans to develop the sk...
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Alberta records largest population growth since StatCan tracking started in 1972
Alberta saw a substantial increase to its population last year as people from other parts of the country and from elsewhere in the world flocked to the prairies.Statistics Canada has released its final population update for 2023.A total of 4,800,768 people called Alberta home at the end of the year. In just 12 months, ...
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Funding announced to conduct 'more surgeries this year than ever before' in Alberta
The Government of Alberta looks to continue its efforts to catch up on the surgical backlog in the province.The 2024 provincial budget includes $305 million for Alberta Health Services (AHS) to perform 310,000 surgical procedures this year, an increase of nearly six per cent from 2022-23.Between 60,000 and 65,000 of th...
Mar 26, 2024
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Pancholi drops out of Alberta NDP leadership race
One person who was looking to lead the Alberta NDP is instead taking things in a different direction.Rakhi Pancholi has announced that she is dropping out of the party's leadership race.The MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud says she entered the contest in early February in hopes of broadening the NDP's appeal and membership, a...
Mar 26, 2024
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Canada

In the news today: Foreign interference inquiry continues, Ontario opens comms centre
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Foreign interference inquiry to hear from chief electoral officer Canada's chief electoral officer, Stéphane Perrault, is slated to testify this morning at a commission of inquiry into foreign...
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Foreign interference inquiry slated to hear from chief electoral officer
OTTAWA - Canada's chief electoral officer, Stéphane Perrault, is slated to testify this morning at a commission of inquiry into foreign meddling allegations and how the government responded to them. The hearings are delving into possible foreign interference by China, India, Russia and others in the last two gen...
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Killer whale rescue tactics could involve plan to lift orca calf out of lagoon
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Experts are reconsidering their options on a rescue plan for the young killer whale trapped by the tide in a remote lagoon off Northern Vancouver Island. Paul Cottrell, the marine mammal co-ordinator at the Fisheries Department, says they are thinking about changing tactics in efforts to convince the ...
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Ottawa signs $3.7B health deal with Quebec, final province to sign onto health accord
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland signed a $3.7-billion health pact with Quebec today, which means all 13 provinces and territories have now signed on to Ottawa's new health accord. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first pitched a new health-funding deal to provinces more than a year ago to increase federal health tra...
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Suspects plead not guilty in human smuggling case involving family's death at border
ST. PAUL, MINN. - A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who prosecutors say went by the alias "Dirty...
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Measles cases in Canada are increasing, Canada's chief public health officer warns
Canada's chief public health officer says the number of measles cases in the country continues to rise. Dr. Theresa Tam says in a statement the Public Health Agency of Canada is aware of 40 measles cases in Canada so far this year. That's more than three times the number of cases reported in all of 2023. Tam says sh...
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World News

Philippine leader warns of countermeasures in response to Chinese aggression at sea
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine president said Thursday that his government would take action against what he called dangerous attacks by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships in the disputed South China Sea, saying "Filipinos do not yield." Ferdinand Marcos Jr. did not provide details...
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Ukraine's soccer victory provides welcome distraction from tragedy of war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainians have expressed pride and gratitude toward their men's national soccer team for qualifying for the European Championship, a rare bit of good news and a welcome distraction from the war with Russia. Though celebrations after Ukraine's 2-1 win over Iceland were muted as Russian missiles kep...
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Bob Uecker, 90, expected to broadcast Brewers' home opener, workload the rest of season uncertain
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Bob Uecker will be back behind the microphone when the Milwaukee Brewers play their home opener Tuesday against the Minnesota Twins. How heavy a broadcasting workload the 90-year-old Uecker will have the rest of the season remains uncertain. "Bob Uecker calling the first pitch of the Brewers home ...
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Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should lose state law license for efforts to overturn election, judge says
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election. Eastman, a former law school dean, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his developmen...
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4 people killed and 5 wounded in stabbings in northern Illinois, with a suspect in custody
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Four people were killed and five were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said. A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned Wednesday afternoon, according to Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical c...
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Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats' VP pick in 2000, dead at 82
NEW YORK (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by his family. Lieberman died in ...
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