City of Grande Prairie
City of Grande Prairie releases 2024 Annual Report
The City of Grande Prairie is highlighting how City Council supported strategic priorities last year.The City has released the 2024 Annual report online.In 2024 the City conducted various infrastructure upgrades, including 41.35 kilometres in road rehabilitation, 185 km in pavement inspections, and 6.496 metres in side...
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Local Hockey
Storm win Game 3 over Bobcats, chance to sweep series
The Grande Prairie Storm are on a hot streak in the first round of playoffs. On Tuesday night, the Storm put another in the win column over the Lloydminster Bobcats with a 2-1 victory in Game 3.The win gives the boys a 3-0 series lead and the chance to sweep and advance to the next round if they win tonight (Wednesday)...
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Peace Region
City of Grande Prairie
City of Grande Prairie releases 2024 Annual Report
The City of Grande Prairie is highlighting how City Council supported strategic priorities last year.The City has released the 2024 Annual report online.In 2024 the City conducted various infrastructure upgrades, including 41.35 kilometres in road rehabilitation, 185 km in pavement inspections, and 6.496 metres in side...
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resubmit inquires
AccessGP service interruption resolved
AccessGP email services were down yesterday (Tuesday, March 26) from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Services for info@cityofgp.com were down from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; any residents who reached out during that time are asked to re-submit their inquiry.In the release, they thanked residents for their understanding.
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Wintry Weather Returns
UPDATE: Environment Canada reinstates Special Weather Statement
After putting up a Special Weather Statement earlier today due to heavy snowfall, and rescinding it this afternoon; Environment Canada has once again put into effect a Special Weather Statment for the Peace region. They say to "expect winter travel conditions from tonight to Friday across central Alberta." EV...
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Post-Secondary Education
NWP President says money needed for skilled trades expansion plans
The President and CEO at Northwestern Polytechnic says the school needs money for a planned expansion to its skilled trades program.Dr. Vanessa Shaene was one of the speakers at the State of the City presentation that took place Tuesday.Dr. Shaene says this expansion is planned for both the Grande Prairie and Fairview ...
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Land Use Discussion
Province seeking public input on land use in Upper Smoky area
The province says it has come up with what it calls, a draft sub-regional plan for the Upper Smoky area, and is now inviting the public to share ideas on future land use in that area. The government says this covers 13,216 hectares located south of Grande Prairie and takes in Grande Cache, Kakwa Wildland Park and part ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Grande Cache
Federal government investing in energy efficient retrofits for Grande Cache centre
A federal investment will support environmentally friendly renovations to a Grande Cache community centre.On March 22, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Nathaniel Erskine-Smith announced more then $153.8 million to support 70 energy-efficient projects across multiple regions in Canada.In Grande Cache,...
Mar 25, 2025
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Local Sports
Local Hockey
Storm win Game 3 over Bobcats, chance to sweep series
The Grande Prairie Storm are on a hot streak in the first round of playoffs. On Tuesday night, the Storm put another in the win column over the Lloydminster Bobcats with a 2-1 victory in Game 3.The win gives the boys a 3-0 series lead and the chance to sweep and advance to the next round if they win tonight (Wednesday)...
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Local Hockey
Storm Head Coach named AJHL's Coach of the Year
The Grande Prairie Storm's Head Coach has been honoured with a league award. Chris Schmidt is the 2024-2025 AJHL Coach of the Year. Schmidt led the Storm to second in the North Division during the regular season, the highest finish since 2009-10. He was promoted to his position after being an assistant coach for three ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Local Hockey
Falher Pirates claim Campbell Cup, other local hockey
Playoff action is either coming to a close or starting up for local hockey leagues around the Peace Region.NPHL Pirates win in six games The Falher Pirates are championship winners following a shutout Game 6 over the Manning Comets on Saturday night. The Pirates beat the Comets 5-0 at home to claim the Campbell Cup. Th...
Mar 24, 2025
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Agriculture
Ottawa increases AgriStability cap to help industry as it faces Chinese tariffs
OTTAWA - The Canadian government has announced support for the country's agriculture sector as it deals with tariffs imposed by China. The federal agriculture department says in a news release that the current payment cap under AgriStability, a program that works similarly to crop insurance, will double to $6 million f...
Mar 23, 2025
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Agriculture
Province says legislative changes will mean more agriculture waste going to the biogas industry
The provincial government is going to make changes to some legislation it says will help support the biogas industry.The changes to the Agricultural Operation Practices Act, if approved, would allow organic waste produced by agriculture operations to be sent to biogas plants.The province says in a news release that 3.4...
Mar 19, 2025
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AVOID ROLLOVERS AND FALLS
Agricultural Safety Week: Slow down and make a plan
This year, March 16-22 marks Agricultural Safety Week in Canada, an annual national event aimed at highlighting the importance of farm safety. "Canadian Agricultural Safety Week is a good time to remind those working on farms and ranches about the importance of farm health and safety measures to keep operations sa...
Mar 19, 2025
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Alberta
Provincial Politics
Pediatric care in Alberta underfunded and putting kids at risk; medical association
Alberta doctors are warning of ``catastrophic'' consequences for children's physical and mental health if the province doesn't boost funding for pediatric care.The Alberta Medical Association says nearly half of pediatricians are considering retirement and that a quarter of them are thinking of leaving Alberta or reduc...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta Premier Smith rejects criticism U.S. meetings amount to treason
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is channelling Winston Churchill to categorically reject accusations she is turning her back on Canada by meeting and talking to U.S. officials and influencers who wish her country harm.It comes as Smith prepares to fly to Florida this week to join an event with an American podcaster who ...
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GOVERNMENT RESPONDS
Private investments eroding public health care, Parkland Institute report finds
A new report by the Parkland Institute, titled "Operation Profit: Private Surgical Contracts Deliver Higher Costs and Longer Waits," suggests that Alberta's outsourcing to private health care providers has increased costs, undermined hospitals and prolonged wait times for critical surgeries. Authored by healt...
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RESPONDING TO 2023 E. COLI OUTBREAK
Survey opens for Albertan feedback on food safety in child care facilities
Starting today, Alberta residents are invited to participate in an online survey to help inform the implementation of regulations and policies relating to food safety in the province. In the fall of 2023, an E. coli outbreak struck Calgary child care facilities, impacting families, child care providers and communities....
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Canada
Three B.C. avalanche victims identified as snow sport industry veterans
The partner of a victim in Monday's avalanche that killed three snow sport veterans in British Columbia's Purcell Mountains says she tried to dig him out and revive him after arriving on the scene. Whistler-based professional snowboarder and filmmaker Leanne Pelosi says on social media that it's "absolutely beyond...
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New U.S. auto tariffs to devastate sector, raise consumer costs: industry
Canadian auto industry leaders say the latest tariffs announced today by U.S. President Donald Trump will raise the prices of cars for consumers and devastate the sector. "This is nuts," said Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturing Association. "It seems he's bent on doing the thing...
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Organizers of B.C. trans history conference blame Trump, with attendance set to slump
The chair of transgender studies at the University of Victoria is worried about attendance at this year's Moving Trans History Forward conference, with expectations of a 40 per cent drop in numbers. Aaron Devor says American potential attendees are reluctant to cross the border - not because of what might happen when t...
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Study on B.C. decriminalization's impact on drug crisis not complete: former coroner
VICTORIA - British Columbia's former chief coroner says a new study linking safer supply and decriminalization to a rise in opioid overdose hospitalizations doesn't provide the full picture on the effectiveness of the province's drug policies. Lisa Lapointe, who retired from the post last year, says the study published...
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Timeline of 4 women slain in Winnipeg, search of landfill for remains
Winnipeg police announced Wednesday the identity of the fourth victim of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. They say the remains of Ashlee Shingoose are likely in a landfill in Winnipeg. Here is a timeline of the case: March 15, 2022 - Police say an unidentified woman is killed on or around this date. May 1, 2022 - Morgan ...
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EV-ready parking spots should be required in new apartment builds: report
TORONTO - A newly released report suggests new apartments across Canada should be required to make their parking spots electric-vehicle ready as a way to help boost uptake. The Clean Energy Canada report says provincial and federal building codes should be updated to require multi-unit apartment buildings to have parki...
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World
World figure skating championships pause to remember those who died in plane crash
BOSTON (AP) - Before the skaters in their sequins and brightly coloured costumes took the ice at the world figure skating championships on Wednesday night, a choir dressed all in black sang a solemn hymn for those who died in a plane crash on their way back from a camp for up-and-coming skaters this winter. Boston's Co...
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Pilot rescued with 2 girls from icy Alaska lake was not authorized to have passengers, official says
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A pilot rescued with two young family members after they survived a night on the wing of an airplane partially submerged in an Alaska lake is a student pilot who was not authorized to fly with passengers, according to a U.S. official and federal aviation records. The Federal Aviation Administra...
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Extreme heat without AC in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel punishment, judge rules
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could cost billions. The ruling affirmed claims brought by advocates of people incarcerated in Texas,...
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