Community
1995 Canada Winter Games 30th anniversary
February 19 marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1995 Canada Winter Games in Grande Prairie.The South Peace Regional Archives says on its website that the theme for the event was "Capture the Vision."The archives also say it featured over 2500 athletes in 21 sports, more than 600 coaches and 8000 vo...
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GPRTA
Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association inviting community stakeholders to join in Destination Professionals Day celebrations
The Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association is celebrating Destination Professionals Day today (February 19).The day honours people and organizations that drive tourism, economic growth and community vitality worldwide.The GPRTA says its work in our region includes creating the annual visitor guide, initiatives to ...
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Peace Region
Community
1995 Canada Winter Games 30th anniversary
February 19 marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1995 Canada Winter Games in Grande Prairie.The South Peace Regional Archives says on its website that the theme for the event was "Capture the Vision."The archives also say it featured over 2500 athletes in 21 sports, more than 600 coaches and 8000 vo...
12h ago
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GPRTA
Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association inviting community stakeholders to join in Destination Professionals Day celebrations
The Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association is celebrating Destination Professionals Day today (February 19).The day honours people and organizations that drive tourism, economic growth and community vitality worldwide.The GPRTA says its work in our region includes creating the annual visitor guide, initiatives to ...
15h ago
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GPRSC
Sports Connection surveying financial hurdles in northern Alberta youth sport
To ensure every kid in Northern Alberta has the same opportunities in youth sports, the Grande Prairie Regional and Wood Buffalo (Fort McMurray) Sports Connection have released two surveys.The survey will ask questions regarding the "financial burdens" that come with participating in youth sports, as families...
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MD of Fairview
MD of Fairview appoints new CAO
The Municipal District of Fairview is welcoming their new Chief Administrative officer.Tim Schindel has been appointed to the role of CAO for the MD after serving as a member of the Town of Fairview Council for over 14 years.Having grown up in Saskatchewan and attended the University of Regina, Schindel had 34 years of...
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Court
Preliminary hearing scheduled for pair charged in public safety alert near Mayerthorpe
Two people charged following a public safety alert issued last fall are scheduled to find out this spring if their case has enough evidence to go to trial. Dakota Jace Patterson, 28, of Whitecourt, and Santiago Nickolus Arthur, 30, of Grande Prairie, are scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Mayerthorpe Court of Justi...
Feb 18, 2025
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RCMP
Mayerthorpe RCMP investigate fire hall B&E
While responding to a vehicle collision over the long weekend, Firefighters in Sangudo found the Lac Ste. Anne County Fire Hall #4 had been robbed. Mayerthorpe RCMP is currently investigating, and they are asking local residents to review any surveillance footage they may have between 5:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on Saturd...
Feb 18, 2025
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Local Sports
Grande Prairie Storm
Tuesday night home loss for the Storm
The Storm lost 4-1 to visiting Lloydminster Tuesday night. Tomas Marinkovic had the lone Storm goal. Second place Grande Prairie is now eight points behind first place Whitecourt with a game in hand. The Storm start a three game road trip Friday in Camrose. Grande Prairie will also visit Drumheller Saturday and Sunday.
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Community
1995 Canada Winter Games 30th anniversary
February 19 marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1995 Canada Winter Games in Grande Prairie.The South Peace Regional Archives says on its website that the theme for the event was "Capture the Vision."The archives also say it featured over 2500 athletes in 21 sports, more than 600 coaches and 8000 vo...
12h ago
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GPRSC
Sports Connection surveying financial hurdles in northern Alberta youth sport
To ensure every kid in Northern Alberta has the same opportunities in youth sports, the Grande Prairie Regional and Wood Buffalo (Fort McMurray) Sports Connection have released two surveys.The survey will ask questions regarding the "financial burdens" that come with participating in youth sports, as families...
20h ago
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Agriculture
Agriculture
Local ag. society wins provincial award
The Grande Prairie Regional Agricultural and Exhibition Society has earned a provincial award.They are one of four winners of the Alberta Agricultural Societies Innovation Awards.The Grande Prairie organization, along with the Lloydminster Agricultural Exhibition, are being saluted for putting together the annual Indig...
Feb 14, 2025
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Agriculture
New farm crisis line now available
The National Farmer Wellness Network Crisis Line is now available to producers who may be struggling with their mental health.The initiative from the Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing officially started on February 4.It is being called in a news release "a transformative initiative designed to address the...
Feb 12, 2025
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Agriculture
Forks up for Canada's Agriculture Day February 11
February 11 is Canada's Agriculture Day.People are being asked to "raise your forks and make some noise" for the ones that work so we can all have good food and for the contributions agriculture makes to the prosperity and well-being of the country.People are also being asked to mark the day by cooking an all...
Feb 11, 2025
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Alberta
MARCH 19 DEADLINE
Submissions open for RCMP's Name the Puppy Contest
The RCMP is pleased to announce the return of its annual "Name the Puppy Contest," for the German shepherd puppies born at the Police Dog Service Training Centre (PDSTC) in Innisfail. Each year, PDSTC asks children ages four to 14 from across Canada to send in names for the RCMP's future police dogs. This yea...
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premier: "i was not involved"
Premier Smith, Minister LaGrange stand by denials of wrongdoing in AHS corruption case
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is removing her government's deputy health minister but bucking calls for a public inquiry into allegations of government interference in lucrative medical contracts. Smith says Andre Tremblay is to be replaced, but will continue as head of Alberta Health Services (AHS). The former head o...
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Courts
'Freedom Convoy' organizer Pat King given 3-month conditional sentence
'Freedom Convoy' organizer Pat King was sentenced to three months of house arrest in an Ottawa court this morning.The sentence includes 100 hours of community service at a food bank or men's shelter.It comes on top of nine months he spent in custody both before and during his trial.King was found guilty on five of nine...
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OPEN LETTER TO MINISTER
Students' Association for Red Deer Polytechnic joins call to province for increased funding
Post-secondary students across Alberta have made a collective call to the Government of Alberta to increase base funding, including the Students' Association of Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), whose institution is facing a $10 million deficit for the upcoming school year. On Feb. 11, more than a dozen students' association...
Feb 19, 2025
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Canada
New poll says 27% of Canadians view the United States as an 'enemy' country
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests that more than a quarter of Canadians - 27 per cent - now see the United States as an "enemy" country, while another 30 per cent still say they consider the U.S. an ally. Another 27 per cent of respondents to the Leger survey said they consider the United States to be a "neut...
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In the news today: Canadians perception of U.S. changing, as new lumber tariffs loom
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Poll says 27% of Canadians see U.S. as an 'enemy' A new poll suggests that more than a quarter of Canadians - 27 per cent - now see the United States as an "enemy" country, while another 30 per cent still say they consid...
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Politics and sports set to collide as Canada, U.S. meet in 4 Nations final
BOSTON - Sports and politics will collide tonight in Boston as archrivals Canada and the United States compete in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off. What might have been initially conceived as an exhibition international hockey tournament in advance of the NHL's return to Olympic competition in 2026 has turned into a...
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After Chinese company divested from Calgary lithium firm, mystery firm stepped in
The federal government is going to court to force a Toronto company to sell a $34-million stake in a Calgary-based lithium firm that it bought off a Chinese company. The government had already deemed the previous Chinese owner's investment in Lithium Chile Inc. to be harmful to national security, and it says in a Feder...
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Crashed Delta plane cleared from Toronto airport runway
The wreck of a crashed Delta Air Lines jet has been cleared from a runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. The airline says removing the wreckage took several hours on Wednesday. Delta says it could be weeks before bags from the plane are returned to their owners because of the inspection and cleaning proces...
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Ontario election 2025: Advance voting opens today as campaigning continues
Advance voting in the Ontario election opens today as party leaders continue to make campaign stops in the Greater Toronto Area and Kitchener. Elections Ontario says advance polls will be open until Saturday and those who haven't received their voter cards in the mail yet can still cast a ballot if they bring a piece o...
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World
Teenager detained after 2 killed in a knife attack at shopping center in Czech Republic
PRAGUE (AP) - Two women have died in a knife attack on Thursday at a shopping center in the Czech Republic, officials said. Police say they detained a teenage suspect in connection with the stabbings in a store in the city of Hradec Kralove, some 100 east of Prague. Reports initially said the victims had been injured, ...
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Red Cross vehicles arrive at Gaza site where Hamas is to hand over remains of 4 hostages
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - Red Cross vehicles have arrived at a site in the Gaza Strip where Hamas is to hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages. Thursday's handover is part of a ceasefire that took hold last month, pausing over 15 months of war. Hundreds of masked militants and onlookers gathered at the site...
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The white man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Black teen who rang a wrong doorbell dies
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An 86-year-old Kansas City man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man's doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester was charged with first-degree assault and armed crimin...
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