"such a fun night!"
Fifth annual Ghost Stories runs this weekend
The South Peace Regional Archives and Bear Creek Funeral Home are hosting it's fifth annual Ghost Stories event this weekend.Held at the Bear Creek Funeral Home, the event aims to raise funds to help preserve the archives while sharing local history and ghost encounters.A previous participant called it "such a fun...
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Referendum
GP & District Chamber of Commerce reacts to Monday's referendum
The Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce has released a statement following the results of Monday's (Oct. ten-question referendum:The Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce, aligned with the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, has remained neutral on the question of separation. Our focus has been on u...
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Peace Region
"such a fun night!"
Fifth annual Ghost Stories runs this weekend
The South Peace Regional Archives and Bear Creek Funeral Home are hosting it's fifth annual Ghost Stories event this weekend.Held at the Bear Creek Funeral Home, the event aims to raise funds to help preserve the archives while sharing local history and ghost encounters.A previous participant called it "such a fun...
11h ago
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Grande Prairie RCMP
City marks Grande Prairie policing transition with GPPS and GP RCMP
The Grande Prairie RCMP detachment has taken its final bow.At an event at Bonnetts Energy Centre Wednesday, Oct. 21, the City of Grande Prairie wished a fond farewell to the detachment as the Grande Prairie Police Service assumes all city jurisdiction policing duties. (Image Credit: Everything GP Staff/Nathaniel Leigh)...
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Referendum
GP & District Chamber of Commerce reacts to Monday's referendum
The Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce has released a statement following the results of Monday's (Oct. ten-question referendum:The Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce, aligned with the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, has remained neutral on the question of separation. Our focus has been on u...
13h ago
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Community
Night Light Walk fundraiser set for tonight
A fundraiser for Odyssey House will take place this evening. The Night Light Walk will leave the Amphitheatre in Muskoseepi Park at 7 p.m. People who get there by 6:15 can hear what organizers call "inspiring stories." The lantern-lit walk will then wind its way through the park and the Avondale neighbourhood...
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B.C. Municipal Election
Dawson Creek, Fort St. John elect new mayors
Dawson Creek and Fort St. John will both have new mayors after last Saturday's (October 17) Municipal Elections in British Columbia. Dwaine Dilworth defeated Councillor Kyle McDonald by almost 1,100 votes in the mayor's race in Dawson Creek. Three incumbents and three newcomers were elected to Dawson Creek's city counc...
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City Services
City offering Home Energy Check Kits to improve energy efficiency
The City of Grande Prairie wants to help residents find ways to improve energy efficiency at home.The City has released a Home Energy Check Kit, which provides free access to tools like an infrared thermometer, plug-in energy meter, and air quality detector to help households better understand their energy use.The kits...
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Local Sports
Storm
Storm beat visiting Wolverines Tuesday night
Treysen Miller had two goals as the Storm downed visiting Whitecourt 4-1 Tuesday night in Grande Prairie. Miller also had an assist. Brody Martin had a pair of helpers. The Storm now have 19 points and are in first place in the North Division. The Storm's next game is on Friday in Bonnyville.
Oct 21, 2026
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Local Hockey
Grycan named AJHL Player of the Week
Grande Prairie local Bowen Grycan has been selected as the Canalta Hotels AJHL Player of Week following a road trip in southern Alberta, where he led the league with five points over three games.The 2006-born forward had two goals in the Storm's 5-1 win over the Drumheller Dragons on October 14, and was also honoured a...
Oct 21, 2026
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Storm
Storm home to Whitecourt Tuesday night
The Storm will host Whitecourt tonight (Tuesday, October 20). The opening face-off is set for 7 p.m. at the Bonnetts Energy Centre. The Storm lead the North Division with 17 points, five up on Lloydminster. Their record of eight wins, two regulation-time losses, and one overtime loss is the best in the Alberta Junior ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Agriculture
Crop Report
Peace Region harvest slowest in province due to snow and rain delays
Many regions in Alberta experienced the first snowfall of the season just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend to delay harvest operations.Wet fields kept producers out of the swing of harvest for multiple days, especially in some parts of the Peace Region, where up to 50 mm of precipitation was recorded.In the norther...
Oct 19, 2026
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Crop Report
Peace Region passes harvest completion halfway mark
Before unfavourable weather blanketed the majority of Alberta over the Thanksgiving weekend, producers were in rush to get crops off the field and into storage thanks to a historically late harvest. Provincial major crop harvest completion increased to 78 per cent according to the latest Alberta Crop Report. In the rep...
Oct 14, 2026
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Peace Region Wildfire free
Wildfire danger level low in PRFA, agri-producers still asked to be cautious
The Peace River Forest area wildfire danger rating now sits at low. Alberta Wildfire also reports zero active wildfires in all of northern Alberta. However, even with low wildfire danger levels and cold temperatures, Alberta Wildfire is asking residents to still use caution. Specifically for the PRFA, "agricultura...
Oct 5, 2026
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Alberta
"immigrant students are not the problem"
Alberta teachers push back on education-related referendum questions
The Alberta Teachers' Association is pushing back following the results on questions two and four of the 2026 Alberta referendum."The challenges facing Alberta's public schools remain, and immigrant students are not the problem," says Jason Schilling, ATA president."Now is the time for the provincial gov...
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Provincial Politics
Former Alberta cabinet minister says Smith can't survive UCP crisis after referendum
A former Alberta cabinet minister says Premier Danielle Smith won't survive the crisis in her United Conservative Party amid fallout from the separation referendum. Peter Guthrie, who was removed from the UCP caucus after criticizing the government over a health-care procurement scandal, now leads the upstart Progressi...
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third worst year on record, nationally
$1.8B in damages caused by Prairie storms this summer
The Insurance Bureau of Canada is reporting an estimated $1.8 billion in losses caused by storms this year across the Prairies.There were ten major events across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with estimates coming from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc."Once again, the Canadian Prairies have been hi...
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Some Voting Locations Still To Report
Some referendum questions flip to 'no' as the count continues in Alberta
More of the constitutional questions in Alberta's historic referendum have flipped to ``no'' with votes still being counted. Alberta voters went to the polls on Monday and were asked 10 different questions. The key question was on separation and roughly 75 per cent of votes backed staying in Canada, but it has taken lo...
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Canada
'Comfort kills dreams': Family says soldier killed in base fire was living his dream
PRINCE ALBERT - Patricia Farrell is not even a week removed from the death of her son in a military training exercise gone wrong. She looks over an array of seven photos of Pte. Shaun Farrell. One is of him as a newborn with a mohawk. Another shows him...
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The 4 soldiers killed in fast-moving fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta
WAINWRIGHT - Four Armed Forces members were killed when a fast-moving fire overwhelmed soldiers during a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, southeast of Edmonton, on Saturday. Dozens of others were injured, with 27 remaining in hospi...
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Video of contact with possibly rabid skunk in B.C. prompts health authority warning
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Coastal Health is warning anyone in the city's downtown who has had contact with a possibly rabid skunk to get a medical assessment immediately after a video emerged on social media. The video posted on Facebook on Oct. 10 shows a...
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Atikamekw baby to be reburied in home community more than 70 years after death
MONTREAL - More than 70 years after his death, an Atikamekw baby buried far from his family in Quebec City will be laid to rest in his home community. After 12 years of searching, the family of Maxime Ottawa has located his burial site, exhumed his rem...
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Ottawa tells its diplomats not to meet with U.S. midterm candidates
OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats were directed this week not to meet with or attend events with candidates in the U.S. midterm elections. Glen Linder, assistant deputy minister for the Americas at Global Affairs Canada, sent a memo midday Tuesday to members...
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Singapore firm set to buy shut Yukon mine for $140M, promises $1.4B in investment
VANCOUVER - The Eagle Gold mine once accounted for between five and seven per cent of the Yukon's GDP before it was shut down by a 2024 environmental disaster. But the beleaguered operation could have a new life, after a Singapore-based mining company ...
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World
Execution staff warned IV site might have 'blown' during Christa Pike's execution attempt
Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike's arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or "blown," before she was injected with pentobarbital, her ...
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Powerful earthquake in China's Tibet collapses hundreds of homes and kills at least 16 people
BEIJING (AP) - A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China's Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 46 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. Search and rescue...
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World Series preview: Surprising Brewers-Rays matchup will open with Jacob Misiorowski's record heat
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Miz will try to whiz his famous fastball by batters on baseball's biggest stage, opening a new-look World Series between teams guaranteed to produce a first-time champion. Jacob Misiorowski brings his record-setting h...
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