PBR Canada
Grande Prairie bull rider feeling confident heading into Peace Country Invitational
A Grande Prairie bull rider will be competing at his third PBR Peace Country Invitational back home this weekend. Jett Lambert says he drew a good bull and has "a really good feeling" about Saturday's competition. "(I'm) feeling (confident). I've definitely sharpened up my mental and physical game over t...
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Community
Grande Prairie student earns national scholarship from Canadian Hearing Services
Canadian Hearing Services has awarded 28 scholarships to deaf and hard-of-hearing students across the country, including one from Grande Prairie. Reeghan Funk is a third-year kinesiology student at Northwestern Polytechnic. Besides being deaf, Funk was also born with cerebral palsy and a paralyzed vocal cord. She says ...
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Peace Region
Community
Grande Prairie student earns national scholarship from Canadian Hearing Services
Canadian Hearing Services has awarded 28 scholarships to deaf and hard-of-hearing students across the country, including one from Grande Prairie. Reeghan Funk is a third-year kinesiology student at Northwestern Polytechnic. Besides being deaf, Funk was also born with cerebral palsy and a paralyzed vocal cord. She says ...
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Nov. 9 by-election
Village of Berwyn announces second by-election to fill vacant council seat
The Village of Berwyn has announced a second by-election to fill a vacant seat on village council.The by-election will be to fill the seat left vacant following Councillor Jane Weber's resignation Aug. 22.Nomination packages are being issued Monday, with anyone interested in serving their community to file their nomina...
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249 tickets issued
GPPS reminding residents about school zone safety after high ticket volume
Grande Prairie Enforcement Services is sharing data on school zone speeding from the start of this month. GPPS is reporting a total of 249 speeding tickets issued in school zones during the first two weeks of school (Sept. 3 to Sept. 18), with 109 coming from photo radar and 140 by local officers.Peace Officer Sergeant...
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Grande Prairie Regional Hospital
GPRH unveils new educational mural at ICU
Grande Prairie Regional Hospital has unveiled a new mural to provide both comfort and education to visitors of the intensive care unit.Visual communication designer Nicole Pernel designed the mural to showcase all the equipment used in the ICU that families might observe connected to their loved ones while in the hospi...
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7,456 knitted items
GP Stitch Club sets another record with its annual donation
The Stitch Club of Grande Prairie marked a quarter of a century of community service, setting a new record for donated knitted items.Club President Anne Sawchuk says an estimated 13,000 balls of yarn created 7,456 knitted items, surpassing their previous record by almost 400; something the club has gotten used too, doi...
Sep 24, 2026
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Grande Prairie Public Library
GPPL digital services going down Sept. 25-29 for system migration
Grande Prairie Public Library will have limited services for the rest of September, starting Friday, Sept. 25.The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC) is moving the library's systems to the cloud and will be offline from September 25 to 29, impacting self-checkout machines, the library lending lockers, and the TRACpac...
Sep 24, 2026
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Local Sports
PBR Canada
Grande Prairie bull rider feeling confident heading into Peace Country Invitational
A Grande Prairie bull rider will be competing at his third PBR Peace Country Invitational back home this weekend. Jett Lambert says he drew a good bull and has "a really good feeling" about Saturday's competition. "(I'm) feeling (confident). I've definitely sharpened up my mental and physical game over t...
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Local Sports
Hockey, rodeo, Wolves, football, motocross this weekend
Besides PBR Canada's Peace Country Invitational taking place this weekend, there are a bunch of other things going on as well.StormThe Storm are in Camrose for games Saturday and Sunday.Face-off times are 6 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.The Storm are 2-1 on the season after two wins at home over Bonnyville last...
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Bull Riding
Four locals among the competitors at Peace Country Invitational
Four cowboys from the Peace Country are set to compete at home when Professional Bull Riding's Peace County Invitational takes place Saturday in Grande Prairie. The group includes Mason Hamilton and Austin Paley from Beaverlodge and Kayden Budde and Jett Lambert from Grande Prairie. The 23 riders set to compete Saturd...
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Agriculture
'Betrayal to producers'
Conservative's agriculture shadow minister condemns decision to ignore committee report
The federal Conservative's critic for agriculture is condemning Ottawa's repsonse to a standing committee report, deeming it a betrayal. Shadow minister and Foothills MP, John Barlow, said that rejecting the recommendations of the bipartisan document are a betrayal to producers. By not reversing the closure of seven ag...
Sep 23, 2026
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Agriculture
Rain dampening harvest efforts according to latest Alberta Crop Report
Just under 13 per cent of major crops have been combined in the Peace Region according to the most recent Alberta Crop Report. The report, dated Sept. 15, says the Peace Region is well behind the five-year average of 51 per cent of harvest completed, due to precipitation in the region that varied between five and 15 mi...
Sep 21, 2026
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Agriculture
Twenty-two per cent of canola swathed in Peace Region, as per latest Provincial Crop Report
The province says harvest is off to a slow start in 2026 across Alberta, with the most recent Alberta Crop Report by AFSC saying provincial progress is behind the five-and 10-year averages of 40 and 30 per cent, respectively. Rain has caused significant delays for farmers to get in the field as well as for crops maturi...
Sep 14, 2026
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Alberta
Provincial Politics
Alberta NDP files court challenge over province's new restricted voter list rules
Alberta's Opposition NDP is challenging the legality of new government rules that severely restrict the amount of voter information elections officials can share with political parties. In a court application filed Thursday in Edmonton, the NDP argue the new policy undermines the purpose of having a voter list as laid ...
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Calgary Man Charged
Calgary court hears possible resolution in case of death threat to prime minister
A Calgary man accused of posting an online threat to kill Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected back in court next week with a possible deal on the table to resolve the matter. The lawyer for Jamie Dacosta has told court that he received an email from the federal prosecutor and they were reviewing the case for a ``pot...
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Provincial Politics
Application period for mail-in Alberta referendum ballots ends today, 673K requested
Today is the last day to apply for a mail-in ballot for Alberta's referendum. Elections Alberta says it will stop accepting applications as of midnight and that mail-in ballots must be returned by Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. The agency says that as of Thursday afternoon it's received 673,000 requests for mail-in ballots. The tot...
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20 Projects
Alberta government investing $14M into sport and recreation facilities
The Government of Alberta is investing $14 million into 20 sport and recreation projects across the province.The government has allocated the funding through its Active Communities Initiative, its first grant program dedicated to sport and recreation infrastructure."I am proud to support active and healthy lifesty...
Sep 24, 2026
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Canada
MPs split on whether AI should be used in House of Commons
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament are split on whether - and how - artificial intelligence should be used by lawmakers following a report that said the technology is being used to write a significant amount of what MPs say in the House of Commons. The Eco...
2h ago
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Anand says Canada supports LGBTQ+ rights despite Ottawa's silence on Turkey crackdown
OTTAWA - While Canada has kept silent on Turkey's crackdown on LGBTQ+ groups, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says that should not be interpreted as a lack of solidarity with oppressed people. The Carney government did not join Germany, France and...
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B.C.'s Eby says NDP would tax new, unsold condos, raise speculation, vacancy fees
VICTORIA - A new tax on unsold condominiums was among the promises British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby made Friday in the first week of the snap election he called for Oct. 24. At a campaign stop in Burnaby, B.C., with a condo complex under construc...
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Competition bureau to publish a call for information on grocery pricing policies
OTTAWA - Canada's competition bureau will move next week to begin gathering information on retail grocery pricing policies. The agency is tasked with protecting and promoting competition for the benefit for Canadian consumers and businesses. In June, t...
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B.C. attorney general seeks Criminal Code change after Tumbler Ridge AI chat report
British Columbia's attorney general says she has asked the federal government to change the Criminal Code to ensure accountability for artificial intelligence companies after a "disturbing" report that OpenAI's chatbot coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter...
5h ago
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Canadian charged with voting fraud in the U.S. for casting ballot in 3 elections
OTTAWA - A Canadian has been charged in the United States with three counts of voter fraud for casting ballots in three elections without being a U.S. citizen. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Florida says Christiane Vinette Young voted in the 2024 and 2...
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World
Morocco's Authenticity and Modernity Party wins parliamentary election, interior ministry says
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) - Morocco's Authenticity and Modernity Party won the most seats in the country's parliamentary election, taking 97 of 395 seats in the House of Representatives, according to final results announced by the Interior Ministry on F...
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Tasia Fortune's hanging was 'staged' after her death in a drug dispute, Mississippi police say
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a "staged" lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday. Fortune w...
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Hurricane Nolo threatening Hawaii with heavy rain as Polo churns near Mexico
HILO, Hawaii (AP) - Residents on Hawaii's Big Island were bracing Friday for potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Nolo, while Mexico was still under the threat of Hurricane Polo as it headed toward the Baja Peninsula af...
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