Firefighting
Grants for firefighter training coming to four municipalities in the Peace
Some municipalities in the Peace are getting money from the province to help train firefighters.The four grants under the Fire Services Training Program include $12,300 for Birch Hills County, $12,859 for Big Lakes County, $14,520 for Northern Sunrise County and $8,650 for the Town of High Prairie.The province says tha...
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Schools
Province announces pre-planning funding for school projects
The province says it is giving school divisions $1.1 million for pre-planning of 24 school projects around Alberta.This includes the French school board in Grande Prairie and the Peace River School Division for projects in Fairview and Peace River.The government says in a release that pre-planning can result in an idea...
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Peace Region
Firefighting
Grants for firefighter training coming to four municipalities in the Peace
Some municipalities in the Peace are getting money from the province to help train firefighters.The four grants under the Fire Services Training Program include $12,300 for Birch Hills County, $12,859 for Big Lakes County, $14,520 for Northern Sunrise County and $8,650 for the Town of High Prairie.The province says tha...
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Schools
Province announces pre-planning funding for school projects
The province says it is giving school divisions $1.1 million for pre-planning of 24 school projects around Alberta.This includes the French school board in Grande Prairie and the Peace River School Division for projects in Fairview and Peace River.The government says in a release that pre-planning can result in an idea...
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Jobs
Unemployment rate rises to 5.5 per cent in March in Peace Region
Statistics Canada released the newest figures for employment across the country for March 2025 on Friday. In Alberta, there was a loss of over 15,400 jobs from February to March, with the unemployment rate rising from 6.7 per cent to 7.1 per cent.Full-time employment plummeted with 30,300 jobs lost, but gains were made...
Apr 04, 2025
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RCMP
Gun and drugs seized following Peace River traffic stop
On Monday, March 24, 2025, members of the Peace Regional RCMP responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area of Highway 986 and Range Road 203 where a man was sleeping inside. Officers attended to the report and the driver took a Mandatory Alcohol Screening, which was passed, however, shortly after RCMP left...
Apr 04, 2025
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Roads
City to begin street sweeping Sunday night
The City of Grande Prairie is set to begin street sweeping operations next week.Starting Monday, crews will begin clearing debris from roadways, medians, barriers, and boulevards along arterial roads and high-traffic routes.Residential sweeping is expected to begin in late May.The sweeping will take place 24 hours a da...
Apr 04, 2025
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Grande Prairie Police Service
GPPS cruisers now patrolling Grande Prairie
Residents may have noticed new Grande Prairie Police Service squad cars patrolling the City. GPPS Chief, Dwayne Lakusta says residents can "expect to see more of our black and white cruisers proudly patrolling our streets regularly.""Our goal is to have our entire fleet of marked vehicles operational by ...
Apr 04, 2025
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Local Sports
Local Sports
Storm playoffs resume, tarp auction gala, stick curling, Whispering Pines open this weekend
StormThe Storm visit Whitecourt Friday to open Round 2 of the AJHL playoffs. Game 2 will also be played in Whitecourt on Saturday. Face-of time for both will be 7 p.m.Grande Prairie advanced to the second round after a four game sweep of Lloydminster in Round 1. The Wolverines eliminated Fort McMurray in five games in ...
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Girl's Hockey
U18 Peace Country Storm bring home silver from provincials
The U18 Peace Country Female Athletic Club wrapped up their season this weekend at Provincials in Strathcona County. Leading up to the goal medal game the ladies were 3-1 at the Ardrossan Rec Complex but ended up dropping the final 4-1 to the Calgary Fire. In a post on social media, the Athletic Club congratulated the ...
Mar 31, 2025
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Local Hockey
Huskies win NWJHL League Championship, advance to provincials
The Strike Group North West Junior Hockey League's playoffs were completed on Saturday up in La Crete. The Fort St. John Huskies won the league championship in six games over the Lumber Barons, winning 5-3 in the final game. The action isn't over yet for Fort St. John though, they have advanced to Junior B provincials ...
Mar 31, 2025
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Agriculture
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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Agriculture
Farmland values continue to increase says FCC
Farm Credit Canada says the national average increase in farmland value was up 9.3 per cent in 2024.That was lower the one from 2023, but still ahead of the five-year average of 8.6 per cent and the 10-year average of 9.1 per cent.The increase for Alberta came in at 7.1 per cent. Saskatchewan had the highest increase a...
Apr 02, 2025
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Agriculture
GGC launches own campaign related to the federal election
Grain Growers of Canada has launched a campaign of its own as part of the federal election campaign.Vote for Grain is a website where farmers can send an email to all the candidates in their riding. It also includes a list of issues and some information on the stances of the four main parties.That list includes support...
Apr 02, 2025
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Alberta
POLICE
Brooks RCMP asking for public's help to locate missing Brooks woman
Brooks RCMP is asking for the public's help in locating a missing person. Yasmine Agostino, 20, was last seen approximately a week ago in Brooks, RCMP said Friday. Police said she may be located in Red Deer and that there is concern for her safety. Agostino is described as having dark complexion, five-foot-four-inches ...
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DEVELOPING STANDARDS
Municipal leaders from across Canada gathering in Lethbridge this month to discuss substance-use solutions
Municipal leaders across Canada are set to gather in Lethbridge to continue work on the first municipally led integrated standards for treatment, harm reduction, recovery, prevention and enforcement services, policies and strategies. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) reports that between January...
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call2recycle
Battery recycling initiative launches in Alberta
Call2Recycle has launched a new program in Alberta to give residents more convenient options to recycle batteries.The program, "Recycle your Batteries, Canada!" officially began April 1 and operated under the Alberta Recycling Management Authority oversight. According to a media release, Call2Recycle is Canad...
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RCMP
Alberta RCMP offering emergency preparedness tips
Alberta RCMP is encouraging families to prepare an emergency plan in the event of a flood or wildfire.Mounties say it's important to be prepared to act quickly in the case of a natural disaster.Consider the specific needs of your household, including older family members, special health or mobility needs, children, pet...
Apr 04, 2025
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Canada
Five years without answers for family of Canadian businessman held in Chinese jail
VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiazhuang, in China's Hebei province, to exercise as he spoke to his wife in Canada by mobile phone. "Suddenly, the cal...
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'We are not the gods': Fire-torn Jasper prepares for diminished summer tourism season
JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper's SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but the view will be different. The red cable cars will skim over thousands of trees poking up from the ground like charred ...
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Caught in the crossfire: Michigan concerned over automobile tariffs targeting Canada
DETROIT - Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and international border - one that's on the brink of being ripped apart. "Our economies in auto between Ontario and Mic...
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Federal leaders set to campaign across the country today
OTTAWA - Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C. while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is in Atlantic Canada. Singh is set to make an announcement in St. John's in the morning, before travelling...
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Quebec's high court rejects random police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing
MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. In a decision rendered earlier this week, the province's high court said the negative impacts of random...
Apr 04, 2025
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Recruiters say surge in U.S. doctors looking to move to Canada since Trump election
HALIFAX - Recruiters say there's been a surge of interest from American doctors considering moving to Canada since the election of U.S. president Donald Trump in November. Katrina Philopoulos, recruitment director for Nova Scotia Health, says 27 American doctors are in serious negotiations to move, which to date has re...
Apr 04, 2025
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World
Anthony, Howard, Redeem Team, Bird, Arison, Fowles, Crawford, Donovan, Moore in Hall of Fame class
Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are going into the Basketball Hall of Fame later this year, not once but twice. And LeBron James and Chris Paul are part of the group that's headed to the Hall as well, even before their playing careers end. Anthony and Howard were announced Saturday as members of the Class of 2025, as...
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Israeli troops deploy to a new corridor across Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says troops have deployed to a newly established security corridor across southern Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced the new Morag Corridor to pressure the Hamas militant group and suggested it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacua...
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Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurling past a hard line of Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the "big, beautiful bill" that's central to his a...
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