"Alberta can never be sovereign"
Treaty 8 First Nations Chief asking anti-sepertists to be more vocal
Treaty 8 First Nations Chief Trevor Mecredi has issued an open letter to Premier Danielle Smith on "continued efforts to advance a separation referendum process."Chief Mecredi says they are firmly behind staying in Canada, as Treaty 8 predates the province itself and remains in a binding agreement with the Cr...
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Roads
Lane reductions on northbound Resources Road
City Hall says there are lane reductions on the northbound side of Resources Road. Construction crews are working on the access for the new businesses going up east of Resources, north of 68 Avenue. The work is underway and is expected to continue through June. The city says there may be minor traffic delays. There may...
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Peace Region
"Alberta can never be sovereign"
Treaty 8 First Nations Chief asking anti-sepertists to be more vocal
Treaty 8 First Nations Chief Trevor Mecredi has issued an open letter to Premier Danielle Smith on "continued efforts to advance a separation referendum process."Chief Mecredi says they are firmly behind staying in Canada, as Treaty 8 predates the province itself and remains in a binding agreement with the Cr...
2h ago
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Roads
Lane reductions on northbound Resources Road
City Hall says there are lane reductions on the northbound side of Resources Road. Construction crews are working on the access for the new businesses going up east of Resources, north of 68 Avenue. The work is underway and is expected to continue through June. The city says there may be minor traffic delays. There may...
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Fires
City Hall in Grande Prairie downgrades fire restriction to fire advisory
City Hall says the fire restriction in Grande Prairie has been downgraded to a fire advisory. City officials say in a news release that conditions have improved, but are still dry. The advisory means that backyard fire pits with screens, natural gas, charcoal and propane barbecues, wood smokers, and smudge fires are al...
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Community
Chautauqua Day in Sexsmith on Saturday
An annual tradition returns to Sexsmith on Saturday. Chautauqua Day will start at 8 a.m. with a pancake breakfast at the arena. The museum and farmer's market open at 10 a.m. The parade is set for noon on Main Street. Many other activities start at 1 p.m. and will continue until 4 p.m. The town says 100 and 99 Streets...
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"deeply troubling"
Loaded firearm recovered during GP Stompede arrest
Clairmont RCMP took a Grande Prairie resident into custody for allegedly brandishing a firearm during GP Stompede last weekend. On Friday, May 29, Mounties were conducting evening foot patrols around the grounds and were approached by a visitor at 10:15 p.m. who claimed a man had flashed a handgun at him, before pointi...
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Local Sports
Football, baseball, rugby, auto racing, lacrosse, and mountain biking on a busy weekend sports schedule
Besides the Summer Luau Beach Volleyball Tournament Saturday and Sunday at the newly expanded South Bear courts, there is a long list of local sports events this weekend: Football The Peace Country Cowboys open the Alberta Football League season Saturday on the road against the Calgary Gators. This will be a rematch of...
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Local Sports
Local Sports
Football, baseball, rugby, auto racing, lacrosse, and mountain biking on a busy weekend sports schedule
Besides the Summer Luau Beach Volleyball Tournament Saturday and Sunday at the newly expanded South Bear courts, there is a long list of local sports events this weekend: Football The Peace Country Cowboys open the Alberta Football League season Saturday on the road against the Calgary Gators. This will be a rematch of...
21h ago
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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
UPDATE: The WPCA says heavy rain has forced Friday night's races to be postponed.The racing is scheduled to continue Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, and Monday evening.After a successful season opener at the Grande Prairie Stompede, the World Professional Chuckwagon Association resumed Thursday for the first evenin...
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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
Rise in full-time work, drop in part-time
May labour force survey numbers unveiled by Alberta government
Alberta labour figures for the month of May have been released. According to the Province, there were 2,670,500 people employed Alberta-wide last month, up almost 14,000 from April, and an increase of 104,400 or 4.1 percent from May 2025.Across the country, there was an additional 87,800 jobs created last month.Alberta...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta's Smith says law will be enforced if separation vote spurs civil disobedience
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the law will be enforced if First Nations communities engage in civil disobedience over her government's separation referendum. But at an unrelated news conference today, the premier says she hopes it doesn't come to that. On Oct. 19, Albertans will vote on whether they want to stay ...
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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...
Jun 04, 2026
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Canada
Stéphane Dion says Canada needs more diplomats to build ties with Europe
OTTAWA - Former foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion says Canada needs to substantially staff up its embassies in Europe and set deadlines for following through on the flurry of agreements Brussels has signed with Ottawa. Dion's comments come after C...
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Canada temporarily blocking livestock from Texas due to New World screwworm
OTTAWA - Canada is temporarily restricting the import of livestock from Texas over concerns about a parasitic fly with flesh-eating larvae. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said animals that are from Texas or were present in the state within 21 days...
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Eby says Canada's not-criminally-responsible system re-victimizes families
The provisions in the Criminal Code related to people found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder have resulted in a system that re-victimizes the family of three murdered children, British Columbia Premier David Eby said. The premier...
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Three U.K. men plead guilty in death of Owen Sound, Ont., restaurant owner
Three men from the United Kingdom who were extradited to Canada last year to face charges after a deadly confrontation with an Ontario restaurant owner over an unpaid bill pleaded guilty on Friday. The men, who are from the same family, were charged in...
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FIFA allowing disposable water bottles at World Cup matches
TORONTO - FIFA is clarifying that soccer fans will be allowed to bring disposable water bottles to World Cup matches in Canada and the United States. A FIFA official said the announcement makes its policy clear following backlash about its ban on reusa...
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B.C. man faces 21 charges in weapons, drug bust at Vancouver home in 2024
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man faces 21 weapon and drug possession offences after Canadian border agents discovered a cache of firearms at a Vancouver home. The Canada Border Services Agency says in a news release that Dylan James Kennedy appeared ...
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World
Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva wins French Open to claim first Grand Slam title
PARIS (AP) - Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15. At 19, she's a Grand Slam champion. The eighth-ranked Andreeva ended the run of 114th-ranked Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska by 6-3, 6-2 in...
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Jury awards $176M for wrongful deaths of young brothers struck by California socialite's car
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $176 million to the parents of two young brothers killed in a hit-and-run collision when a California socialite's car struck them in a crosswalk nearly six years ago. The jury found both Rebecca Grossma...
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Judge halts Trump administration efforts to impose conditions on SNAP
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program....
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