Beach Volleyball
Community effort leads to doubling the number of beach volleyball courts at South Bear
The number of beach volleyball courts at a Grande Prairie facility has doubled.A recent expansion at the beach volleyball facility at South Bear added four new courts. Grande Prairie Beach Volleyball league volunteer Patrick Bueckert says the city contributed $200,000 a year ago; which is half of the cost. The league h...
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Wildfires
Fire restriction downgrades to advisory in County of Grande Prairie
Officials with the County of Grande Prairie's Regional Fire Service say effective Friday June 5, at 3:00 p.m., the current fire restriction will be downgraded to an advisory thanks to recent rainfall. This also includes the towns of Sexsmith, Beaverlodge, and Wembley. Under the fire advisory, fire permits may be restri...
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Peace Region
Wildfires
Fire restriction downgrades to advisory in County of Grande Prairie
Officials with the County of Grande Prairie's Regional Fire Service say effective Friday June 5, at 3:00 p.m., the current fire restriction will be downgraded to an advisory thanks to recent rainfall. This also includes the towns of Sexsmith, Beaverlodge, and Wembley. Under the fire advisory, fire permits may be restri...
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Northwestern Alberta Foundation
NAF inaugural 7 Over 70 Awards taking place June 6
Northwestern Alberta Foundation's new event to honour exceptional seniors arrives Saturday, June 6.The 7 over 70 Celebration will present awards to seven seniors at a ceremony Saturday night at the Pomeroy Hotel & Conference Centre.NAF says these seniors have left a lasting mark on Northwestern Alberta through thei...
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Missing Person
Missing man in Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie RCMP and Grande Prairie Police Service are seeking public assistance in locating missing 37-year-old Chase Howkins, of no fixed address, who is normally in the Grande Prairie area. He was last seen on May 15, 2026, in Grande Prairie. RCMP and GPPS are worried for his wellbeing and would like to speak wit...
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GP RCMP
Arson arrest made in connection with Wednesday's house fire
Wednesday's (June 3) row house fire in the City has been deemed an arson.The Grande Prairie Fire Department says 21 firefighters and 5 apparatus responded at 8:17 p.m. to a row house with a blaze coming from the common attic space.Crews "began immediate life-safety and incident control actions" and worked to ...
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GPFD
Over 20 firefighters respond to row house blaze
No one was injured, but several residents have been displaced after an evening house fire on Wednesday, June 3. The Grande Prairie Fire Department says 21 firefighters and 5 apparatus responded at 8:17 p.m. to a row house with a fire coming from the common attic space. Crews "began immediate life-safety and incide...
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Outdoor Pool
Aquatera Outdoor Pool invites residents to splash into summer
The Aquatera Outdoor Pool is officially open for the season. Residents are invited to take part in public swimming from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 pm during weekdays, and 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekends, until June 23. New this year, the pool is now offering gazebo rentals to provide a "dedicated space for gatherings and c...
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Local Sports
Beach Volleyball
Community effort leads to doubling the number of beach volleyball courts at South Bear
The number of beach volleyball courts at a Grande Prairie facility has doubled.A recent expansion at the beach volleyball facility at South Bear added four new courts. Grande Prairie Beach Volleyball league volunteer Patrick Bueckert says the city contributed $200,000 a year ago; which is half of the cost. The league h...
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Chuckwagons
Bensmiller opens Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship on top
After a successful season opener at the Grande Prairie Stompede, the World Professional Chuckwagon Association resumed Thursday for first evening of races in the 2026 Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship. Following plentiful rainfall in recent weeks, organizers with the event worked tirelessly to make sure track and grou...
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Football
Kettyle makes Elks, Ljuden released
Grovedale's Carter Kettyle has earned a roster spot with the Edmonton Elks. He is one of four Canadian receivers on the Elks roster. Kettyle played high school football with St. Joe's and is one of two former Celtics picked by the Elks in this year's CFL draft. The other one, offensive lineman Matthew Ljuden, was rele...
Jun 02, 2026
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Agriculture
Agriculture
May 26 crop report released
The May 26 crop report from the province says just under 52 per cent of the crop in the Peace had been seeded as of that date. That compares to 32.6 per cent the week before. The five-year average is 76.6 per cent, the 10-year average is 70.3 per cent. Crop emergence in the Peace was at 9 per cent as of May 26. The re...
Jun 03, 2026
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Seeding
Almost half the crop seeded in Saddle Hills County
The ag. fieldman for Saddle Hills County estimates seeding is 40-50 per cent complete in the area. Kathrin Langlois says the weather has cooperated as Saddle Hills County has not had as much rain as other areas.Langlois says the breakdown by crop is 55-60 per cent for cereals, 70 per cent for pulse crops, and about 20 ...
May 22, 2026
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Agriculture
New Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation named during Alberta cabinet shuffle
Alberta has a new Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation. Tara Sawyer was named to the post as part of a provincial cabinet shuffle. Previous minister RJ Sigurdson has moved to the Affordability and Utilities portfolio. Sawyer is a farmer from the Acme area. She has previously served as the board chair for the Grain ...
May 21, 2026
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Alberta
Transportation
Alberta eyes downtown-to-airport trains as first key project of passenger rail plan
Alberta's government is eyeing train connections for airports to the downtown cores of its two biggest cities as the first key project of the province's new passenger rail plan. But construction isn't expected to start any time soon, as the government says it will spend $15 million over the next three years to advance ...
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sudden cardiac arrest
AED installed at Castor school in memory of late 7-year-old
Gus Wetter School in Castor, Alberta is now the proud home of a 24/7 publicly accessible SaveStation AED cabinet.AED stands for Automated External Defibrillator, and one could save your life in the case of a sudden cardiac arrest.The one in Castor, in east-central Alberta, is the eighth donated by Action First Aid in t...
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Provincial Politics
First Nations chiefs say civil disobedience an option if Alberta referendum proceeds
Treaty chiefs representing First Nations across the West say they are willing to carry out acts of civil disobedience if necessary to fight Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's separation vote. And Treaty 8 Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi has renewed a call for Smith to put a stop to an upcoming referendum on it. He points to ...
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$2.5 million
Province invests in supporting survivors of gender-based violence
The Government of Alberta has invested $2.5 million in the Community Pathways to Justice grant to help support survivors of gender-based violence.The investment also advances the province's 10-year strategy to end gender-based violence."It is critical that survivors receive the support they need to navigate the ju...
Jun 04, 2026
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Canada
ITK president says Indigenous languages office's mandate needs to be re-examined
OTTAWA - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed says allegations of financial mismanagement and a toxic workplace at the Office of the Commissioner for Indigenous Languages are disheartening, and he hopes the federal government seizes the moment ...
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Unhoused soccer players at Montreal tournament say sport changed their lives
MONTREAL - Fabrice Mugabe says his experience playing for team Canada at the Homeless World Cup in Oslo, Norway, last year changed his life and helped him find stability. Mugabe took part in a panel discussion today at Université de Montréal on ways to...
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World Cup driving spike in counterfeit goods, Canadian, U.S. border officials say
OTTAWA - Canadian and U.S. border law enforcement officials said Friday they expect to see a surge in counterfeit goods linked to the World Cup. Officials from the Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Se...
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Liberal MP Erskine-Smith confirms plans to leave federal politics in supporter email
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith has sent an email to supporters confirming he will resign his seat in the House of Commons and inviting volunteers to an event to celebrate his decade of public service. He was elected in Beaches-East York in 2015...
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Texas company to pay B.C. First Nation $12M over 2016 tugboat spill
BELLA BELLA - A British Columbia First Nation says a Texas company has agreed to pay more than $12 million in the first portion of a "multi-part settlement" after a grounded tugboat spilled about 110,000 litres of pollutants in central coast waters in ...
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Arson attempt at Montreal synagogue should be an 'elbows up' moment, rabbi says
MONTREAL - The rabbi at a Montreal synagogue targeted by an attempted arson attack early Friday says the crime should be a rallying call for society to take antisemitism more seriously. Lisa Grushcow says it's not the first time Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sh...
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World
Trump says he wants his new acting director of national intelligence to cut the office
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - President Donald Trump said on Friday that he wants his new acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during his second term. Trum...
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A federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countries
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S. In a ruling ...
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Virginia man gets life in prison for double murder scheme in affair with Brazilian au pair
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - A Virginia man who was having an affair with the family's Brazilian au pair was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife and a man who was lured to the couple's home as a fall guy. B...
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