Spring forecast
Winter weather not finished yet in Prairie provinces: The Weather Network
The Weather Network has issued its spring forecasts for the months March, April and May - and the Prairies may be in for winter weather a while longer.While precipitation is expected to be normal for the upcoming spring season in Alberta, temperatures will be below normal, the network reported.Spring-type weather start...
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City of Grande Prairie
City of Grande Prairie opens applications for 2026 Community Group Funding
Applications are now open for the City of Grande Prairie's Community Group Funding Cycle.The program is a City funding stream for programs and services run by community groups that benefit the community and residents.The stream was updated for the next funding cycle with increased parameters for capital requests, and t...
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Peace Region
Community
Documentary 'Intersections of Identity' premieres at NWP Mar. 14
A documentary about individuals facing homelessness in Alberta will have it's Grande Prairie premiere today. Intersections of Identity, a documentary by Damian Abrahams, will be shown at Northwestern Polytechnic.It explores the lived experiences of individuals facing homelessness in both rural and urban Alberta, and fo...
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City of Grande Prairie
City of Grande Prairie opens applications for 2026 Community Group Funding
Applications are now open for the City of Grande Prairie's Community Group Funding Cycle.The program is a City funding stream for programs and services run by community groups that benefit the community and residents.The stream was updated for the next funding cycle with increased parameters for capital requests, and t...
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City Hall
Residential snow removal to start Friday in Grande Prairie
City Hall says a two week rotation of snow removal will start in the Arbour Hills, Gateway, Royal Oaks and Westgate areas today (Friday, March 14).The city says these are the usual areas done following its Week A-Week B schedule that sees residential areas cleared the day before garbage pickup day. The plowing will con...
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Town of Fox Creek
Town of Fox Creek launching a new wildfire mitigation initiative
The Minister of Forestry and Parks will be in Fox Creek Friday, March 14.Todd Loewen is visiting the town as it launches its new wildfire management initiative that uses mushrooms to reduce wildfire fuels.Loewen will be joined by Fox Creek municipal officials and key stakeholders from the region for the event.A news co...
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PWPSD
PWPSD appoints new Wembley Elementary principal
The Peace Wapiti Public School Division has announced a new principal at Wembley Elementary School for the 2025-2026 school year.Theresa Simmonds will be taking the reigns as temporary principal after serving as principal of Bonanza school since 2009.(Photo Credit: Peace Wapiti Public School Division)Simmonds says her ...
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Event for sky watchers
Lunar eclipse to start Thursday night, end Friday morning
We might get to see a lunar eclipse Thursday night into Friday morning if the sky is clear.The website timeanddate.com says the eclipse will start at 9:57 p.m. Alberta time Thursday night.Totality, the time when the moon is completely obscured by the Earth, will start at 12:26 a.m. Friday and end at 1:31 a.m.The eclips...
Mar 13, 2025
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Local Sports
Local Sports
Hockey, swim meet, ski hills for this weekend
StormThe Grande Prairie Storm will host the Lloydminster Bobcats for the final two games of the regular season this weekend, games that will also be a playoff preview.The games this weekend will go Friday starting at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday at 6:00 p.m.The Storm will also host the Bobcats to open the playoffs on March 2...
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Grande Prairie Storm
Storm players, coach nominated for league awards
Several members of the Grande Prairie Storm are among the League Award Finalists for the Alberta Junior Hockey League. Tomas Marinkovic is up for the Top Forward Award. Logan Cunningham has been nominated for Outstanding Defenceman. Nicholas Jones is among the finalists for Top Goaltender. Chris Schmidt is up for Coach...
Mar 13, 2025
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AJHL Player of the week
Storm net-minder listed in AJHL weekly awards
A member of the Grande Prairie Storm has once again been selected as a top player of the week in the AJHL, this time alongside two Calgary Canucks. Storm net-minder Nicholas Jones is the Defensive Player of the Week as he posted a 2-0 record from March 3-9, pushing Grande Prairie to a three-game win streak. Both games ...
Mar 12, 2025
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Agriculture
Farm Safety Week
Federal government announces grant for farm safety organization ahead of Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
The federal government has announced a grant for the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association.The $1,607,291 over three years is meant to help find ways to reduce injuries and improve farm safety through things like on-farm resources, training programs and awareness campaigns.A news release from the federal government ...
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Agriculture
Federal money coming to Peace Region projects
The federal government has made some funding announcements related to agriculture recently and some of the money is coming to the to the Peace.One of the announcements is $116 million to 119 projects across the country under the Agricultural Clean Technology Program.Seven farms in five different communities in the Peac...
Mar 13, 2025
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Agriculture
Ag ministers say Team Canada tariffs approach will continue as GGC expresses concern about trade war
Federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers says they will continue with a Team Canada approach in dealing with US tariffs. The ministers met in Ottawa on Thursday as part of what a release from the federal agriculture department calls "ongoing discussions related to the impacts and potential respons...
Mar 11, 2025
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Alberta
PROVINCIAL POLITICS
Premier Smith says Carney should immediately call election
Premier Danielle Smith says new prime minister Mark Carney should immediately call a general election as she argued his cabinet remains as hostile to Alberta as the one assembled by his predecessor. "I am extremely concerned that this cabinet includes most of same ministers responsible for the most damaging govern...
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Community
Alberta Premier acknowledging Mar. 14 as Hindu Festival of Colours 'Holi'
Alberta's Premier is acknowledging today as Holi the Hindu traditional Festival of Colours.Danielle Smith says the celebration marks the arrival of spring and is a way for participants to reconnect with their community.Smith says during Holi the focus is on practising acceptance, living in harmony with all the earth's ...
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IN ADDITION TO CONVENTIONAL
Alberta to begin collecting bitumen royalties in-kind
The Government of Alberta has announced it will now collect bitumen royalties in-kind (BRIK) in addition to conventional royalties in-kind (CORIK) in an effort to maximize resource revenue. The Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission (APMC), the province's commercial oil and gas agency, can now combine conventional and ...
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Spring forecast
Winter weather not finished yet in Prairie provinces: The Weather Network
The Weather Network has issued its spring forecasts for the months March, April and May - and the Prairies may be in for winter weather a while longer.While precipitation is expected to be normal for the upcoming spring season in Alberta, temperatures will be below normal, the network reported.Spring-type weather start...
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Canada
Quick quotes: Reaction to Mark Carney being sworn in as prime minister
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada's new prime minister, succeeding Justin Trudeau. Here's how some leaders and politicians are reacting to his appointment. - "I'd like to begin by ... wishing Mr. Trudeau a happy retirement and all the best to his family and congratulating Mr. Trudeau's economic advi...
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Disability, gender equality advocates slam Carney's elimination of cabinet positions
TORONTO - Advocacy groups are panning Prime Minister Mark Carney for eliminating the cabinet positions dedicated to people with disabilities and women and gender equality issues. Carney was sworn in as prime minister today, along with a slimmed-down cabinet of 23 ministers, down from 36 under former prime minister Just...
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Five things to know about Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet
OTTAWA - Mark Carney was sworn in Friday as Canada's 24th prime minister in a ceremony in Rideau Hall, alongside his new cabinet. Here are five things to know about the new prime minister's plans and his new cabinet. Fewer ministers The most noticeable difference between Justin Trudeau's cabinet and Carney's is its siz...
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CP NewsAlert: Eby announces ending of provincial carbon tax
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia's Premier David Eby says his government will repeal the province's carbon tax this legislative session, after new Prime Minister Mark Carney moved to eliminate the federal version of the tax. More coming. The Canadian Press
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CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet terminates consumer carbon price
OTTAWA - The federal cabinet has agreed to immediately end the consumer carbon price, and made the change official at the first cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Mark Carney this afternoon. Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April....
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Family 'optimistic' that B.C. woman detained in U.S. will be back within 24 hours
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The family of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States after her visa was denied at a border crossing in California says she may be home "in the next 24 hours." Jasmine Mooney has been in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities since March 3, and Alexis Eagles, Mooney's mother, s...
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World
Rubio says South Africa's ambassador to the US 'is no longer welcome' in the country
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa's ambassador to the United States "is no longer welcome" in the country. Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a "race-baiting politician" who hates President Donald Trump and declared him "persona n...
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Bill to avert government shutdown clears key hurdle with help from Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) - A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight Friday deadline loomed. Ten Democrats joined with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure. The vote was 62-38. Democr...
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Trump pledges to 'expel rogue actors' in political speech at Justice Department
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career, decrying in often profane terms his adversaries and casting himself as a victim of unfair and biased prose...
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