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Four overnight disruptions at Beaverlodge ED this week
The Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital Emergency Department will be without a physician every night until Friday, Oct. 2.Alerat Health Services says the ED will be undergoing four overnight 12-hour disruptions starting tonight: 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28 - 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29*8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 - 8 a.m. Wednesday, ...
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Local Hockey
Storm pick up two weekend road wins
Just five games into the regular season, the Grande Prairie Storm are 4-and-1 after claiming a pair of games in Camrose over the weekend.The Storm took the first game on Saturday night into shootout, where Bowden Grycan scored the winning goal in the first round to beat the Kodiaks 5-4. Sunday's game had Grande Prairie...
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Peace Region
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Four overnight disruptions at Beaverlodge ED this week
The Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital Emergency Department will be without a physician every night until Friday, Oct. 2.Alerat Health Services says the ED will be undergoing four overnight 12-hour disruptions starting tonight: 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28 - 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29*8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 - 8 a.m. Wednesday, ...
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Education
St. Joe's High School closed for day amid "threat"
Grande Prairie Police are on site at St. Joe's Catholic High School this morning (Sept. 28) after officials at the school were made aware of a threat to occur "later today." In an email sent to parents and guardians of students, it says the school division's Superintendent has made the decision to close the s...
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RCMP
Arrest made in 2023 Child Lake First Nations homicide
Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit has made an arrest in a 2023 homicide in Child Lake First Nations.On July 17, 2023, High Level RCMP responded to a male found deceased in his residence, determining the deceased, 48-year-old Trevor Fournier, had died from a gunshot wound.The Major Crimes Unit took carriage of the investig...
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Sept. 30th
Multiple City facilities closed for Truth & Reconciliation Day
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, a number of City facilities will be closed to recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.Inspired by Orange Shirt Day, the statutory holiday was first established in June of 2021 by the federal government to honour the survivors of residential schools, make sure the history is never...
Sep 27, 2026
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Local Writers
Beaverlodge author releases new book
A book described as a "sweet sports romance" is the latest work from a Beaverlodge author. Kirsten Clark's book is called The Rabbit and tells a love story about two people who meet at a marathon. This is the third book Clark has released. Clark provided the following description in a news release. "Marl...
Sep 27, 2026
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Community
Rising Above Grande Prairie opens Summit House Sept. 26
Rising Above Ministries has opened their new facility in Grande Prairie.Located behind the current addiction treatment facility across from Centre 2000, Summit House will serve as a residence for men in addiction recovery. (Image Credit: Everything GP Staff/Nathaniel Leigh) (Image Credit: Everything GP Staff/Nathaniel ...
Sep 26, 2026
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Local Sports
Local Hockey
Storm pick up two weekend road wins
Just five games into the regular season, the Grande Prairie Storm are 4-and-1 after claiming a pair of games in Camrose over the weekend.The Storm took the first game on Saturday night into shootout, where Bowden Grycan scored the winning goal in the first round to beat the Kodiaks 5-4. Sunday's game had Grande Prairie...
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Bull Riding
Coy Robbins wins PBR Peace Country Invitational
Grande Prairie's Bonnetts Energy Centre was packed to the rafters Saturday night (Sept. 26) for a sold out show of PBR Canada's Peace Country Invitational. With 24 bull riders, 12 eight-second rides were witnessed on the night, with 27-year-old Coy Robbins of Camrose, AB, placing first with two qualified rides. Robbins...
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Week 4
Football Alberta Weekly Top-10 Rankings
Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labour Day kickoff) from now up until November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-sid...
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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
Primary Care Alberta
PCA Celebrating 35th anniversary of mobile mammography service
Primary Care Alberta is recognizing the 35th anniversary of Screen Test's mobile mammography service.The program's first visit was to Hinton on Sept. 19, 1991, before visiting an additional 25 communities that year.Since then, Screen Test has had two mobile trailers visiting 120 communities and seeing up to 15,000 clie...
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Oct. 19 Referendum
Former British PM David Cameron says Alberta separation vote unlike Brexit
The former leader of the United Kingdom during the Brexit referendum says you can't compare that debate to Alberta's prospective split from Canada. David Cameron largely avoided talking directly about Alberta's separation debate when speaking at an energy leadership conference in downtown Calgary on Monday morning. But...
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Oct. 19 Referendum
More ballot requests received in Alberta referendum than last provincial election
Elections Alberta says it has received 11 times more requests for mail-in ballots for the upcoming vote on separation than it did in the last provincial election. The agency says it has received roughly 658,000 requests for special ballots for the Oct. 19 referendum, and about 100,000 of those electors have voted. Elec...
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What you need to know
A look at the questions on the Oct. 19 referendum in Alberta
Here are the questions Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is sending to a provincewide vote on Oct. 19.Question 1: Do you support the government of Alberta taking increased control over immigration for the purposes of decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and giving Albertans fi...
Sep 27, 2026
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Canada
Trump says he expects Canada trade deal within weeks as import ban looms
WASHINGTON - Just hours before import bans on certain Canadian goods were set to take effect, U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks he can make a trade deal with Canada in the coming weeks. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump sa...
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Advocates plea for Ottawa to call inquiry into Alberta, Saskatchewan trans laws
OTTAWA - Advocates are in Ottawa asking the federal government to call an inquiry into provincial laws they say have escalated harassment, bullying and mental health harms for transgender people. Laws on the books in Saskatchewan and Alberta require pa...
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Canada extends travel restrictions linked to Ebola outbreak for 60 days
OTTAWA - Canada has extended its travel and immigration restrictions related to the Ebola outbreak for another 60 days, and the health ministry in the Democratic Republic of Congo has released new data showing there have been more than 8,000 cases of t...
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RCMP boss Duheme says it's still too soon to release details on Tumbler Ridge guns
OTTAWA - RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says in a recent letter that information about firearms used in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., will stay under wraps for now because it's still part of an active investigation. The Sept. 23 letter from ...
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Man accused in Nijjar's assassination put on FBI most-wanted list
LOS ANGELES - A man charged in connection with the 2023 assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ten most-wanted list. Satinderjeet Singh, who is also known as Goldy Brar, was cha...
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Minister won't commit to criminalizing residential school denialism
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty was noncommittal Monday when asked about criminalizing residential school denialism after a group linked to white nationalism reportedly staged a demonstration in the B.C. interior over the weekend...
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World
Tropical Storm Hanna forms in the Atlantic Ocean and isn't threatening land
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Hanna formed Monday in the Atlantic Ocean and isn't threatening land, forecasters said. The storm was located about 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) east-northeast of Bermuda and was moving east, according to an ad...
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SpaceX's supersized Starship launches toward orbit for the first time
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship toward orbit for the first time Monday, aiming for six full laps around Earth to prove its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon program. The company stressed that everything needed to be operating proper...
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5 men arrested near a US-run air base are bailed as UK police probe whether there's a link to Iran
FAIRFORD, England (AP) - Five young British men arrested on explosives and terror charges near a U.S.-operated air force base in England were released on bail Monday, and counterterror detectives said they were investigating "multiple lines of inquiry,...
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