Invest Grande Prairie
Invest Grande Prairie seeking local business owners input with online survey
The City of Grande Prairie is inviting local business owners to share their thoughts on challenges they've experienced.Invest Grande Prairie has launched an online survey as part of small business week to give business owners the chance to help the city better understand how they can support continued growth.Invest Gra...
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Classroom Champions
19-year-old Team Canada luge slider inspires local youth
Students at Grande Prairie's Alexander Forbes School were the lucky recipients of a visit from a Team Canada athlete mentor on Thursday (Oct. 29). Classroom Champions and Whitecap Resources were able to bring 19-year-old Maya Yuen of Calgary to the school for the day to speak on her journey to becoming a part of the na...
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Peace Region
Invest Grande Prairie
Invest Grande Prairie seeking local business owners input with online survey
The City of Grande Prairie is inviting local business owners to share their thoughts on challenges they've experienced.Invest Grande Prairie has launched an online survey as part of small business week to give business owners the chance to help the city better understand how they can support continued growth.Invest Gra...
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Nov. 1, 2026
No physician coverage at Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital ED for 12 Hours
The Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital emergency department will be without an on-site physician for 12 hours Sunday, Nov. 1.Due to a clinical personnel shortage and an inability to secure temporary coverage, there will be no on-site physician from 8:00 a.m. Sunday until 8:00 p.m.Nursing staff will remain on-site to provid...
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Grande Prairie Police Service
GPPS police dog and handler now in operation
The Grande Prairie Police Service has announced its new police canine, Dante, and his handler, Constable Shane Weinmeyer, is now in service.Dante is a one-and-a-half-year-old Belgian Malinois and German shepherd mix from the Czech Republic and has completed extensive training with Weinmeyer in Calgary to build the skil...
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Weather
Fog advisory moves north of Grande Prairie
Update: The fog advisory in no longer in effect for Grande Prairie and the surrounding area. It has moved north of Webster, blanketing the Peace Region up to Clear Hills and east to Bluesky.The fog is expected to lift in the afternoon.Environment Canada has issued a yellow fog advisory this morning (Oct. 30) for Grande...
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County of Grande Prairie
County of Grande Prairie celebrating employee milestones
The County of Grande Prairie has issued its annual recognition of their long-time employees this week.The County issued a release, praising 66 employees for reaching various service milestones, ranging from five years with the county to 45. (Image Credit: County of Grande Prairie) "Behind every service we provide ...
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Forestry Business
West Fraser reports third quarter loss
West Fraser Timber Ltd. says it recorded an $80 million loss in the third quarter. President and CEO Sean McLaren says in a news release that demand for wood is soft because of housing affordability. McLaren also says West Fraser saw energy prices go up in Quarter 3. The release also says it is stopping production inde...
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Local Sports
Local Sports
Football, hockey, Wolves this weekend
FootballThe Peace Bowl semi-final will be played Friday night at the Community Knowledge Campus field.The Peace Wapiti Academy Titans will play the Grande Prairie Phoenix Friday.Kick-off time will be 6 p.m.The winner will take on St. Joe's in the Peace Bowl November 6.NWJHLThere is one game in the Northwest Junior Hoc...
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Classroom Champions
19-year-old Team Canada luge slider inspires local youth
Students at Grande Prairie's Alexander Forbes School were the lucky recipients of a visit from a Team Canada athlete mentor on Thursday (Oct. 29). Classroom Champions and Whitecap Resources were able to bring 19-year-old Maya Yuen of Calgary to the school for the day to speak on her journey to becoming a part of the na...
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local sports
Local hockey for Thursday, October 29
There is one game in the North Peace Hockey League tonight (Thursday, October 29). Grande Prairie is in Dawson Creek. Face-off time will be 8:30 Alberta time. There is one game in the Northwest Junior Hockey League tonight (Thursday, October 29). The County Kings in Fairview will start at 8. Wednesday night, Fort St. ...
Oct 29, 2026
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Agriculture
Agriculture
Alberta's agriculture minister praises farmers' hard, work, perseverance in statement on harvest
A written statement from Alberta's Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation says that "despite weather challenges, crop yields are estimated to be above average."Tara Sawyer says this is especially true for the southern and central areas of the province, adding that she applauds "the perseverance, patience...
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Agriculture
Province sets aside $60M for projects that would save water, restore land and grow more
The province says it has set aside $60 million for an Emissions Reduction Alberta project to tackle what it calls Alberta's "biggest economic and environmental challenges: restoring land, growing more and saving water." The Agriculture, Water and Land Challenge is asking for proposals for new technologies. Th...
Oct 28, 2026
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County of Grande Prairie
Nominations open for 2027 County of Grande Prairie farm family award
County of Grande Prairie residents are invited to nominate a farming family that has made significant agricultural contributions.The 2027 Farm Family of the Year Award will recognize a family that uses sustainable farming practices, finds innovative ways to meet challenges, and makes lasting contributions to their rura...
Oct 27, 2026
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Alberta
Cameron Davies
Alberta Reupublican Party leader resigns
The same day one separatist leader was given the boot from the United Conservative Party, another faction of Alberta's separatist movement has taken a hit.Cameron Davies has announced he is resigning as leader of the Republican Party of Alberta.And as noted, it was earlier Friday when Premier Danielle Smith shared that...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta government reducing education property taxes in 2027 after previous hikes
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is reducing education property taxes starting next year after it brought in successive hikes for ratepayers. It means home and farmland owners will pay almost seven per cent less than this year while non-residential property owners will pay almost five per cent less. S...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta's Smith says separatist leader's UCP membership revoked
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a high-profile separatist leader has been kicked out of her United Conservative Party. Smith told reporters in Calgary that the party's executive director made the decision to revoke Jeff Rath's membership over code of conduct issues, and it's a decision she supports. Rath has been a...
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It's Alberta Time, baby!
Where we're going, we don't need time changes
Just ignore the advice of Huey Lewis and the News, because Alberta does not, in fact, 'gotta get back in time' this weekend.Sunday, Nov. 1 would've been the day that Alberta falls back an hour, but that's not happening.The province will remain on the new time zone known as ABT, or Alberta Time.In a release, the UCP say...
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Canada
Anand says she called out Russian counterpart invited by U.S. to G20 ministerial
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Russia should not have attended a G20 meeting the U.S. hosted on Friday, but she still used the opportunity to make a point to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "I was sitting at a table directly across ...
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How Canada's new pact with the European Union might affect you
OTTAWA - Canada's new partnership with the European Union is meant to provide benefits to people on both continents. The two jurisdictions wrapped up a summit in Montreal on Friday with various agreements, many of which will take months or years to fin...
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'Wall of smoke': Plaintiff recalls wildfire anxiety in youth-led climate trial
VANCOUVER - Zoe Grames-Webb has told Canada's first youth-led climate trial she still remembers the "completely grey wall of smoke" she woke up to in 2017 while staying at a cabin on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. The wildfire smoke was so thick, i...
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Ottawa lists Roberts Bank port expansion in B.C. as project of national interest
DELTA - The planned Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion, which is expected to add 2.4 million containers of capacity at the Port of Vancouver, the largest in the country, has officially been named a project of national interest. Transport Minister Steven...
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Building tool to help courts spot AI-generated evidence is 'challenging': researcher
A researcher working to help courts detect evidence that's been created or altered with artificial intelligence says it's proving difficult to come up with a tool that's as effective in the real world as it seems to be in the lab. Maura Grossman is co-...
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Former B.C. minister says he's focused on family, but leaves door open to politics
VICTORIA - Former British Columbia cabinet minister Ravi Kahlon said the New Democrats must dive deeply and learn from what led to their crushing defeat by the Conservatives in the province's snap election this month. Kahlon, who decided not to seek re...
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World
Shooting leaves 1 dead and 6 wounded at Solano Town Center in Fairfield, California police say
A shooting on Friday night at a mall in Fairfield has left one person dead and six wounded, California police said. Police said they responded to a shooting at around 8:30 p.m. inside Solano Town Center at the Spirit Halloween store. The...
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Justice Department seeks to isolate Alaska ballots as criminal probe underway over Senate candidate
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion, while federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over a Senate candid...
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Appeals court rejects Justice Department request for California to set aside disputed ballots
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Justice Department's request for California to set aside disputed ballots received in the midterm election, and hours later another federal judge barred the department from intimidating ...
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