Local Sports
Local lacrosse team off to strong start in its first year
A local lacrosse team in its first year of existence is on a roll. The Junior B Peace Country Honey Badgers are 7-1 so far in their inaugural season and have won six straight games. They are in second place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League standings behind only 7-0 Red Deer. The team includes 20 players from in an...
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Local Sports
Local lacrosse team off to strong start in its first year
A local lacrosse team in its first year of existence is on a roll. The Junior B Peace Country Honey Badgers are 7-1 so far in their inaugural season and have won six straight games. They are in second place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League standings behind only 7-0 Red Deer. The team includes 20 players from in an...
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Peace Region
Chuckwagons
Sunday Championship Final Heat set for 2026 Grande Prairie Stompede
It was a cloudy Saturday evening for the fourth night of professional chuckwagon racing at the 2026 Grande Prairie Stompede. At the end of the night, it was Jason Glass that secured the day money with a penalty-free run of 1:15.63. His time was 14 one-hundredths of a second quicker than Layne Flad, who finished second ...
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Chuckwagons
Vigen wins second straight night, Motowylo takes aggregate lead
The third evening of the World Professional Chuckwagons at the Grande Prairie Stompede had the reigning world champion, Chanse Vigen, cross the finish line the fastest for the second night in a row in front of his hometown crowd. The track was a little heavier than the previous two days after some Friday (May 29) after...
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GPFD
Residential shed fire extinguished before spreading to nearby homes
GPFD responded to a call in the Crystal Ridge neighbourhood on Friday morning (May 29).At 8:30 a.m. crews arrived and found a shed on fire, spreading to two nearby homes. The fire was then brought under control, with damage limited to just the outside of the homes.A single occupant was inside one of the homes at the ti...
May 30, 2026
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Court
Man charged after "fentanyl superlab" found near Valleyview pleads guilty, given 12 years in jail
A Kelowna man charged after the 2024 breakup of what was described at the time as a "fentanyl superlab" found in the Valleyview area has been given a 12-year jail sentence. Both Alberta Justice and the Crown prosecutor from Edmonton say Stephen Mogg was given the sentence on May 21 in Valleyview court after ...
May 29, 2026
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City of Grande Prairie
Spray parks open at Muskoseepi and Lions Park
The City of Grande Prairie has opened their spray parks for the summer.The amenities are open at both Muskoseepi Park and Lions Park to help keep everyone cool during the summer months.Both parks are open from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily.
May 29, 2026
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Education
New collegiate program announced for Grande Prairie area
A new collegiate program coming to Grande Prairie will offer hands-on, career-focused programming to local students.The Grande Prairie Regional Career Collegiate is a collaborative effort between Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools, the Grande Prairie Public School Division, and Peace Wapiti Public School Divi...
May 29, 2026
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Local Sports
Local Sports
Local lacrosse team off to strong start in its first year
A local lacrosse team in its first year of existence is on a roll. The Junior B Peace Country Honey Badgers are 7-1 so far in their inaugural season and have won six straight games. They are in second place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League standings behind only 7-0 Red Deer. The team includes 20 players from in an...
4h ago
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Local Sports
Local lacrosse team off to strong start in its first year
A local lacrosse team in its first year of existence is on a roll. The Junior B Peace Country Honey Badgers are 7-1 so far in their inaugural season and have won six straight games. They are in second place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League standings behind only 7-0 Red Deer. The team includes 20 players from in an...
4h ago
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Chuckwagons
Sunday Championship Final Heat set for 2026 Grande Prairie Stompede
It was a cloudy Saturday evening for the fourth night of professional chuckwagon racing at the 2026 Grande Prairie Stompede. At the end of the night, it was Jason Glass that secured the day money with a penalty-free run of 1:15.63. His time was 14 one-hundredths of a second quicker than Layne Flad, who finished second ...
7h ago
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Agriculture
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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Agriculture
Alberta Wildfire reminding producers to be fire safe
As agricultural spring work takes place across the province, the risk of farm wildfires poses a risk due to dry conditions in fields. While it is often wet and cooler in the seeding months, dry vegetation and crop residue is highly flammable. Alberta Wildfire is wanting to remind farmers to take extra precautions to pr...
May 19, 2026
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Alberta
Information on flood hazards
Provincial government launches flood mapping studies in 10 communities
The Government of Alberta have launched new flood mapping studies this spring that they say will provide detailed information on flood hazards.The studies will produce about 260 kilometres of new or updated flood mapping for 10 communities, such as Barrhead, Birchwood Village Greens, Didsbury, Driftpile, Eckville, Jarv...
May 29, 2026
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To take effect Monday, June 1
Alberta goverment introduces new incident reporting rules at childcare facilities
Beginning Monday, June 1, childcare facilities across Alberta will be required to post on-site notices of high-risk, potentially criminal incidents reported through their programs. Under the new rules, the notices will need to go up within one business day after incidents are reported and in an area which parents have ...
May 29, 2026
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lukaszuk visits red deer sunday
Thomas Lukaszuk speaks with The Everything Red Deer Podcast
On the latest episode of The Everything Red Deer Podcast: Thomas Lukaszuk, proponent of the Forever Canadian petition.Listen here: --If you ask Thomas Lukaszuk, perhaps you won't be surprised to hear that he isn't too happy with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.Smith announced last week that Albertans will go to the poll...
May 29, 2026
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getting to know what's coming
Gov't of Alberta issues backgrounder on Oct. 19 referendum questions
The Government of Alberta issued a backgrounder on the upcoming Oct. 19 referenda.You can read it in its entirety, below:"Elections Alberta recognizes Albertans' deep interest in the upcoming referendum and will be providing important information on our website over the next weeks and months leading up to October ...
May 29, 2026
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Canada
Tory leader takes aim at Liberals with call for emergency debate on the economy
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is stepping up his attack on Liberal policies with a call for an emergency parliamentary debate on the economy. Statistics Canada said Friday the economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row ...
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Woman who had to give up baby urges Ottawa to apologize for forced adoptions
Christine Nayler spent only four hours with her newborn daughter at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982, before her baby was taken away from her. Then a 15-year-old expectant mother living in Toronto, Nayler was sent to a relative's home north...
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New book explores the rugged adaptability of Sable Island, N.S.'s wild horses
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotian zoologist and photographer says he hopes his upcoming book on Sable Island's wild horses will help people appreciate the rugged beauty and adaptability of the isolated animals. Damian Lidgard has been travelling to Sable - a 4...
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Landmark Indigenous languages office under audit, $10M spent hosting conference
The federal government has ordered a financial audit into transactions and activities at a landmark Indigenous languages office after receiving anonymous complaints. Canadian Heritage didn't elaborate on the allegations against the Office of the Commis...
4h ago
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First Nations haven't been consulted on clean drinking water legislation: lawyer
OTTAWA - A lawyer who represented First Nations in a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa says his clients still have not been consulted on promised clean drinking water legislation - even though the lawsuit settlement directed the federal government to...
6h ago
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International competition to build Canada's next submarine fleet enters home stretch
OTTAWA - The race to build Canada's next submarine fleet is on its final lap as the federal government evaluates two rival bids for the lucrative contract. The two qualified bidders, South Korea's Hanwha Oceans and Germany's TKMS, have fought tooth and...
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World
Rescuers say a blast at a building storing explosives in Myanmar has killed more than 45 people
BANGKOK (AP) - A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed more than 45 people, according to rescue workers and independent media reports. About 70 other people were i...
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Israeli army captures strategic castle in Lebanon in deepest incursion into country in 26 years
BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century, the military said Sunday. The taking of Bea...
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Claude Lemieux's brain will be donated to Boston University's CTE Center, his family says
Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop. Lemieux died of suicide at ...
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