Local Sports
D3 Junior and High School Rodeo and Cowgirl Triathlon in Grande Prairie this weekend
Evergreen Park is hosting a plethora of rodeo events this Easter weekend. The Alberta High School Rodeo D3 Freedom Rodeo is happening Friday through Sunday for Junior High and High School contestants. There will be bareback riding, bareback steer, barrel racing, breakaway roping, tied down roping, ribbon roping, saddle...
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Healthcare
Beaverlodge ED without doctor for 24 hours
Alberta Health Services says due to a clinical personnel shortage, there will be no physician in the Beaverlodge Emergency Department for a 24 hour period. There will be no doctor in the ED due to an inability to secure temporary coverage from Thursday, April 17 at 8:00 a.m. to Friday, April 18 at 8:00 a.m.Nursing staf...
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Peace Region
County of Grande Prairie
County of Grande Prairie Council approves final 2025 budget
County of Grande Prairie Council has approved the final budget for 2025.It calls for a 2.4 per cent municipal tax increase. The county says that works out to $57.85 a year or $4.82 a month for a residential property worth $575,000."This year's increase in the municipal portion of taxes will help ensure our program...
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Healthcare
Beaverlodge ED without doctor for 24 hours
Alberta Health Services says due to a clinical personnel shortage, there will be no physician in the Beaverlodge Emergency Department for a 24 hour period. There will be no doctor in the ED due to an inability to secure temporary coverage from Thursday, April 17 at 8:00 a.m. to Friday, April 18 at 8:00 a.m.Nursing staf...
9h ago
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City of Grande Prairie
Good Friday facility hours
City of Grande Prairie Facilities will have adjusted hours for Good Friday (April 18).During the day, all city facilities will be closed except the Ernie Radbourne Pavilion, Eastlink Centre and Design Works Centre, which will all be open from noon to 5 pm.Transit will also operate on holiday hours on Friday. According ...
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Wildfires
Wildfire hazard climbs to high in Slave Lake, Whitecourt Forest Areas
The wildfire hazard rating has climbed to high in the Slave Lake and Whitecourt Forest Areas.Fire watchers in the Slave Lake area say this is because of warm temperatures and gusting wind.There have been 16 wildfires in the Slave Lake area since January 1 that have burned close to 27 hectares. Officials say most of the...
11h ago
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RCMP
ASIRT concludes investigation into non-fatal officer-involved shooting
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has completed their investigation into a non-fatal Grande Prairie RCMP officer-involved shooting in 2023 following a hostage situation.On December 20, 2023, the suspect had entered a house he had previously shared with his wife prior to separating, an argument ensued, and the ...
Apr 16, 2025
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RCMP
Grande Prairie RCMP speed enforcement operation results
Earlier this week, Grande Prairie RCMP were conducting a speed enforcement operation along Highway 40. Mounties say a number of tickets and warnings were handed out, with the worst infractions consisting of what they called, "performing stunts," a ticket for doing a 104 km/h in a construction zone with worker...
Apr 16, 2025
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Federal Election 2025
Liberal Party of Canada
Candidate Profile: Maureen McLeod (Liberal) - Grande Prairie
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of EverythingGP and Pattison Media.Advance voting days are April 18, 19...
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Federal Election
Business confidence, pipelines, housing among the topics covered in Chamber federal forum
All six federal election candidates in the Grande Prairie riding took part in an election forum hosted by the Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce on Zoom Tuesday night. All candidates went two or three at a time answering questions that had been submitted, before all candidates were asked to respond to qu...
Apr 16, 2025
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Rhinoceros Party
Candidate Profile: Donovan Eckstrom (Rhino) - Grande Prairie
This is a candidate profile for the April 28, 2025 federal election.All candidates have been asked the same four questions, and were given a 600-word limit.Responses are unedited for grammar and spelling, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of EverythingGP and Pattison Media.Advance voting days are April 18, 19...
Apr 14, 2025
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Local Sports
Local Sports
D3 Junior and High School Rodeo and Cowgirl Triathlon in Grande Prairie this weekend
Evergreen Park is hosting a plethora of rodeo events this Easter weekend. The Alberta High School Rodeo D3 Freedom Rodeo is happening Friday through Sunday for Junior High and High School contestants. There will be bareback riding, bareback steer, barrel racing, breakaway roping, tied down roping, ribbon roping, saddle...
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Local Sports
Player originally from Grande Prairie included in NHL Central Scouting rankings
NHL Central Scouting has released its final ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft and a player originally from Grande Prairie is included.Lukas Sawchyn in ranked 69th among North American skaters, up from 119th in the mid-term rankings.Sawchyn is a forward with the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League.The Oil Kings...
11h ago
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Sledge Hockey
Wolverines team wins bronze medal at provincial sledge hockey tournament
The Grande Prairie Wolverines Adapted Sports sledge hockey team recently came home from a big provincial tournament with a bronze medal.The club only attends one tournament a year, the Matt Cook Western Canada Sledge Hockey Tournament. This year's edition took place April 3-6 in Calgary.The Wolverines recorded wins ove...
Apr 15, 2025
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Agriculture
Agriculture
Clear Hills Agricultural Trade Show on this weekend
The 28th Clear Hills Agricultural Trade Show is set for Saturday.It will go from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Dave Shaw Memorial Complex in Hines Creek.Besides the trade show, there will be wagon rides, spring fair exhibits, an arts & crafts display and a kid's talent show.There will be a pancake breakfast to start t...
Apr 11, 2025
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Provincial Politics
Alberta's agriculture minister in Washington to discuss importance of free trade
Minister of Agriculture RJ Sigurdson will represent Alberta in Washington, D.C. on Monday to engage in important discussions on how agriculture is beneficial on both sides of the North American border. "I want every ag producer and processor in our province to know that we have your back and will continue to advoc...
Apr 07, 2025
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Northwestern Polytechnic
NWP's Bee Diagnostic Centre receives grant
Northwestern Polytechnic has received funding to advance research examining a parasite that targets honeybee colonies.NWP's National Bee Diagnostic Centre has received a $195,300 grant from non-profit Results Driven Agriculture Research to fund research into Varroa mite and the viruses it carries.Over the next two year...
Apr 03, 2025
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Alberta
'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
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WHAT TO KNOW
Here's what to know about advance voting in Canada's 2025 federal election
Advance voting for the 2025 federal election gets underway this long weekend.Canadians who are at least 18 years old can vote at their assigned polling station anytime from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on April 17, 18, 19 or 20. Where to voteThere are two ways to know where to advance vote. Those who are registered ahead of time s...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta pauses some of its fight-back plan against the U.S. amid tariff dispute
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is pausing the procurement policy it announced more than a month ago to fight U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally says since the province's retaliatory measures were first announced in early March, Trump's administration has put a hold o...
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Provincial Politics
Supreme Court won't hear appeal on questioning former Alberta minister in coal suit
The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear an appeal by the Alberta government regarding a decision to have its former energy minister questioned in a multibillion-dollar coal mining lawsuit.The $15 billion lawsuit, launched in 2023, argues five coal companies were left with land they couldn't use after Alberta rei...
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Canada
'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
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Frank Stronach committed to stand trial after preliminary inquiry into two charges
TORONTO - An Ontario court has committed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach to stand trial on two charges related to two complainants as part of his Toronto sexual assault case. Ontario Court Justice Jacqueline Freeman made the ruling at the end of a preliminary inquiry that dealt exclusively with those two charges...
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U.S. students look north as Trump freezes funding to American universities
VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning. Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and the University of Toro...
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Trump says tariffs making America rich while also suggesting trade deals are coming
U.S. President Donald Trump showed little signs of backing down on his plans to tariff the world today - even as members of his administration continue to claim the duties will lead to the negotiation of new trade deals. Trump says nothing he heard during a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval...
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Eby says Canadians need to 'keep the pressure up' despite California's charm campaign
VICTORIA - British Columbia's premier says Canadians need to "keep the pressure up" on the United States by buying local and avoiding travel there, despite a recent push from California to draw visitors from Canada. David Eby says he spoke with Californian Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday - the same day the go...
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Air traffic back to normal at Vancouver's airport after days of delays
RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports says traffic flow at Vancouver International Airport has resumed normal operations in time for Easter weekend travel. The update from Nav Canada comes after the agency issued posts to social media on Tuesday and Wednesday warning of flight de...
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World
The Menendez brothers' bid for a shorter sentence and possible parole is delayed again
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who have spent 35 years behind bars for killing their parents, will be delayed again, a judge said Thursday. Prosecutors filed a motion late Wednesday to delay the resentencing hearings so the court can obtain one aspect of the state parole board's comprehe...
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Colorado man convicted of killing his wife and posing as ex-boyfriend and stalking her
DENVER (AP) - A Colorado man was convicted Thursday of killing his wife after prosecutors say he posed as her ex-boyfriend and stalked her. With his marriage falling apart, prosecutors said Daniel Krug, 44, decided to play "puppet master" by scaring his wife and then trying to win her back by protecting her f...
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Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday kept on hold President Donald Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship but agreed to hear arguments on the issue in May. Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally has been halted nationwide by thre...
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