Road closure
Temporary road closure at 132 Avenue railway crossing Thursday
The City of Grande Prairie will be temporarily closing the 132 Avenue railway crossing on Thursday March 6, to accommodate upgrade work.The road will be closed from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., while signal upgrade work is happening with a planned detour via 97 Street and 148 Avenue.The City says this should road closure i...
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RCMP
Wanted male arrested in Little Buffalo
Peace Regional RCMP arrested a wanted male in Little Buffalo last week.On February 26, the RCMP detachment responded to a report in Little Buffalo where they located 26-year-old Little Buffalo resident Jarod Brandon Gene Whitehead.Whitehead was wanted for several offences including assault with a weapon and obstructing...
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Peace Region
City of Grande Prairie
City of Grande Prairie closing Muskoseepi skate pond
Due to warmer weather, the Muskoseepi pond is now closed for skating.The City says if temperature dip back down below freezing the rinks will be re-opened.
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"Never experienced a deficit"
2025 Grande Prairie Street Performers Festival still a possibility
The Grande Prairie International Street Performer Festival announced Saturday, March 1, that the 2024 edition would be the last. Founder of the festival, Wayne Ayling says he made the decision to cancel the event this year and moving forward; "I turn 70 years old this summer and it is time for me to officially ret...
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County of Grande Prairie
County of Grande Prairie temporarily closing 93rd Street Mar. 5-12
The County of Grande Prairie is temporarily closing a section of the County Industrial Park for several days, starting today, Wednesday, March 5.(Photo Credit: County of Grande Prairie)93rd street will be closed between 39th avenue and 42nd avenue as of 7:00 a.m. today, with a detour set up along 39th ave. and 97th str...
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Road closure
Temporary road closure at 132 Avenue railway crossing Thursday
The City of Grande Prairie will be temporarily closing the 132 Avenue railway crossing on Thursday March 6, to accommodate upgrade work.The road will be closed from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., while signal upgrade work is happening with a planned detour via 97 Street and 148 Avenue.The City says this should road closure i...
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RCMP
Wanted male arrested in Little Buffalo
Peace Regional RCMP arrested a wanted male in Little Buffalo last week.On February 26, the RCMP detachment responded to a report in Little Buffalo where they located 26-year-old Little Buffalo resident Jarod Brandon Gene Whitehead.Whitehead was wanted for several offences including assault with a weapon and obstructing...
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Chamber of Commerce
Soul searching led to decision to leave city council for the CEO job at the chamber says Bosch
A now former member of Grande Prairie City Council says a lot of soul searching led to her deciding to take on a new role.Wendy Bosch recently stepped down from council and as manager of the Downtown Association to become the new CEO of the Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce."I find that (the) Grand...
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Local Sports
AJHL Defencemen of the week
Storm rookie claims AJHL weekly awards
A Grande Prairie Storm Defenceman was chosen as an AJHL player of the week, from February 24 to March 2. Storm rookie Cade Kozak recorded six points over three games, tacking on a pair of goals to claim the AJHL's top Defensive Player of the Week. His best game during that stretch came on Saturday, March 1 where he pus...
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Curling
Northern, southern Alberta curlers team up to win provincial title
A combined Grande Prairie-Okotoks team has won a provincial curling championship.The Delia DeJong rink captured the Alberta Seniors Women's title Sunday in Leduc.They beat the Michelle Hartwell team from Edmonton 6-4 in the final.The DeJong rink had lost the 1-2 game to Hartwell 5-4 before beating the Deb Santos team f...
Mar 04, 2025
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Kijhl
Grande Prairie local earns KIJHL weekly award after two playoff wins
A Grande Prairie local has been named as the top goalie of the week in the KIJHL as he's started playoffs with a .969 save percentage. Stretching from February 24 to March 2, Connor Stojan secured two playoff wins for his Beaver Valley Nitehawks, while stopping 62 of 64 shots he faced. In his first game against the Nel...
Mar 04, 2025
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Agriculture
Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life
Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near their log home. It sounds peaceful - but Hedges said earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry operations are "str...
Mar 04, 2025
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Agriculture
Nine beef research projects to share $6 million in funding
Results Driver Agriculture Research, Alberta Beef Producers and the Beef Cattle Research Council say that $6 million will go into beef research projects in Alberta.Nine projects will get funding. The list includes $2.1 million to expand disease surveillance work done in feedlots, $1.1 million to study how trace mineral...
Feb 21, 2025
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Agriculture
Local ag. society wins provincial award
The Grande Prairie Regional Agricultural and Exhibition Society has earned a provincial award.They are one of four winners of the Alberta Agricultural Societies Innovation Awards.The Grande Prairie organization, along with the Lloydminster Agricultural Exhibition, are being saluted for putting together the annual Indig...
Feb 14, 2025
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Alberta
Alberta announces new border security measures
The Government of Alberta has announced new investments aimed at tightening up security at the Alberta-Montana border.It is committing $15 million over two years to create three new vehicle inspection stations along Highway 1 at Dunmore, Highway 3 at Burmis and Highway 4 at Coutts.They are also training highway mainten...
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BREAKING
Premier cuts off future alcohol from U.S. in tariff row, but no change to oil
Premier Danielle Smith says her province will no longer buy American alcohol and video lottery terminals to retaliate in the ongoing tariff row with the United States.She said Tuesday from Medicine Hat that Alberta won't play what she calls its "trump card" by reducing or levying oil and gas exports heading s...
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Shoppers will see some food prices rise because of tariffs, but not all at once
Now that Canada and the U.S. are in a trade war, consumers can expect some prices to rise at the grocery store but not on all products, and not all at once.Gary Sands of the Federation of Independent Grocers says stores are already getting price increase requests from some of their suppliers.After U.S. President Donald...
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Alberta hires consultant to review Land and Property Rights Tribunal
The Government of Alberta has hired an external consultant to review the Land and Property Rights Tribunal (LPRT) business processes in an effort to ensure they are effective and responsive to Albertans' needs. The LPRT ensures Albertan property rights are protected by ensuring a fair and impartial appeal process for p...
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Canada
CP NewsAlert: Manitoba Tories apologize to victims' families in landfill search case
WINNIPEG - The interim leader of Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives has apologized to the families of two slain First Nations women for declining to search a landfill for their remains. Wayne Ewasko made the apology in the house to the families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, following last week's discovery of p...
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More than 100 arrested in countrywide child exploitation operation, police say
OTTAWA - Police say they have made more than 100 arrests and laid more than 300 charges in a major national child exploitation operation. Representatives of the RCMP and other police forces provided an update today on a project aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse. RCMP Insp. Matthieu Girard told a news confe...
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Canada advances toxic label for 'forever chemicals,' phased regulation approach
The federal government says it's moving ahead with a plan to designate the entire class of so-called forever chemicals as toxic and expects to begin consultations in two years on further regulating their use in cosmetics, food packaging and other consumer products. The government released its phased approach to tacklin...
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Quebec's Beauce region, known as a hub for business, upended by U.S. tariffs
MONTREAL - The head of a business group says Quebec's Beauce region is in a "state of shock" following U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on Canadian imports. Hélène Latulippe of the Conseil économique de Beauce says the region has more than 500 manufacturing companies, s...
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Weak dollar, anger toward U.S. expected to give big boost to Quebec tourism industry
MONTREAL - The weak Canadian dollar and the trade war with the United States is expected to boost Quebec's tourism economy this year. A major tourism association says it calculated that Quebecers who choose to vacation in the province instead of the United States will spend $1.5 billion in 2025. Sébastien Benedi...
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No compromise on tariffs, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are on the same page with a position that Canada will not be compromising on tariffs. He suggests Canada will not be removing any of its retaliatory tariffs unless all American tariffs are removed. His comments come one day after U.S. Preside...
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World
Macron says he'll confer with allies on protecting Europe with French nuclear deterrence
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he will confer with European allies on the idea of using France's nuclear deterrent to protect the continent in the face of threats from Russia. France is the only nuclear power in the European Union. Macron, in a televised address to the nation, described Ru...
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White House confirms 'ongoing talks and discussions' with Hamas officials amid ceasefire uncertainty
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that U.S. officials have had "ongoing talks and discussions" with Hamas officials. Confirmation of the talks in the Qatari capital of Doha come as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire remains in the balance. Leavitt declined to provide detail...
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Trump administration moves to drop Idaho emergency abortion case with national implications
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to drop an emergency abortion case in Idaho in one of its first moves on the issue since President Donald Trump began his second term. The Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Biden administration, in a ...
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