Wildfires
Five wildfires near Dawson Creek closes Highway 52
BC Wildfire is still battling "a cluster of wildfires" along Highway 52, southwest of Dawson Creek. The highway remains closed in both directions by RCMP while crews battle the five blazes. Two blazes remain out of control, burning 28 hectares. The largest wildfire, spanning 50 hectares, is now listed as unde...
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28 mobile vendors
GP food trucks undergo inspections for 2025 season
Residents in the community may have noticed the City of Grande Prairie starting its "annual inspection blitz for mobile cooking units." To receive their business license, 28 mobile vendors are undergoing inspections from the City's Inspection Division, AHS, and the Fire Department. Program Coordinator, Meliss...
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Peace Region
PWPSD
PWPSD announced Edwin Parr Award Nominee
Peace Wapiti Public School Division has revealed their nominee for the Edwin Parr Award, which honours first-year teachers. Bailey Gardecki, who teaches Grade 1 and 2, has been recognized for her outstanding first year at Eaglesham School. (Photo Credit: Peace Wapiti Public School Division) Eaglesham School principal M...
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Wildfires
Five wildfires near Dawson Creek closes Highway 52
BC Wildfire is still battling "a cluster of wildfires" along Highway 52, southwest of Dawson Creek. The highway remains closed in both directions by RCMP while crews battle the five blazes. Two blazes remain out of control, burning 28 hectares. The largest wildfire, spanning 50 hectares, is now listed as unde...
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City of Grande Prairie
Fire advisory upgraded to a fire restriction
The City of Grande Prairie has upgraded the fire advisory issued in April to a fire restriction. Effective as of noon today (Thursday, May 1), any open burning is prohibited, including smudge fires, burn barrels, campfires on public land and fire pits without a spark arrestor or screen. However, indoor fires, along wit...
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28 mobile vendors
GP food trucks undergo inspections for 2025 season
Residents in the community may have noticed the City of Grande Prairie starting its "annual inspection blitz for mobile cooking units." To receive their business license, 28 mobile vendors are undergoing inspections from the City's Inspection Division, AHS, and the Fire Department. Program Coordinator, Meliss...
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Indigenous chiefs call for Alberta Premier Smith to stop stoking separatism talk
EDMONTON - Two First Nations chiefs are accusing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of "attempting to manufacture a national unity crisis" and are calling on her to stop stoking the fires of separatism. Smith's government has proposed legislation that would make it easier for citizens to call for a referendum on ...
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Missing person
Missing man in Grande Prairie found
UPDATE: Grande Prairie RCMP have reported that Darrell Monkman has been located safe. RCMP in Grande Prairie are asking for the public's assistance in locating missing 36-year-old Darrell Monkman. Darrell was last seen outside of his residence in Grande Prairie on April 28, but family did hear from him on April 30 at 9...
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Federal Election 2025
2025 Federal Election
Conservative incumbent Chris Warkentin holds on to Grande Prairie seat
Incumbent Conservative Chris Warkentin won his seventh straight federal election Monday, taking over 80 per cent of the vote in the Grande Prairie riding. Speaking at his election party, Warkentin says he is thankful for the support of residents in the Peace Region and says he will continue to represent their needs in ...
Apr 29, 2025
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Canada's Choice
Candidate Profile: Arnold Viersen (CPC) - Peace River-Westlock
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.Canadians head to the polls on April...
Apr 24, 2025
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2025 Federal Election
Peace River-Westlock riding in need of poll workers
Elections Canada is still looking for election poll workers for the Peace River-Westlock riding. Elections Canada says about 150 workers are needed to operate the polling stations on Election Day (Monday, April 28). Interested residents can visit Election Canada's website and click on jobs to apply, or contact the elec...
Apr 23, 2025
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Local Sports
Local Sports
Local players part of national championship hockey team
Two players from Grande Prairie are part of a national hockey champion.Defender Madeline Renfree and forward Reanna Loberg were both with the Edmonton Junior Oilers U18 AAA team that won the Esso Cup on Sunday, April 27.The Oilers beat a team from Saskatoon 7-3 in the final, scoring all seven of their goals in the firs...
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Football
Elks players to give instruction to local football players
Some local football players have a chance to get some instruction from some CFL players this weekend.The Edmonton Elks are bringing their EE Hometown Tour to the Crosslink County Sportsplex Friday and Saturday. There will be camps for local players aged 11-18. The camps for minor football players will start at 6 p.m. o...
Apr 30, 2025
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2025 IIHF U18 Men's Championship
Local GP hockey product representing Canada at U18's
A Grande Prairie-born hockey player will defend Canada's gold at the 2025 IIHF U18 Men's Championship in Texas. Lukas Sawchyn, who along with his brother Gracyn, plays for the Edmonton Oil Kings, and will don the red and white when Canada takes on Slovakia today, at 2 p.m. PT (Thursday, April 24)Most recently, Sawchyn ...
Apr 24, 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
dr. greg powell
STARS mourns the passing of its founder during 40th year
STARS, the organization which provides life-saving helicopter transportation to those facing critical injuries, shared Thursday that its founder, Dr. Greg Powell, has died.Powell, whose inspiration for STARS was sparked by his experience in Saigon during the Vietnam War, passed away April 30 at Foothills Hospice in Oko...
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Provincial Politics
Alberta's Smith says she doesn't see 'an appetite' for provincial pension plan
The idea of Alberta opting out of the Canada Pension Plan isn't going anywhere -- at least for now.Premier Danielle Smith says she won't be putting the creation of a provincial pension plan to a referendum any time soon.Smith says she doesn't think Albertans have ``an appetite'' to pull out of the national pension prog...
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Alberta seeks court ruling on constitutionality of Ottawa's clean electricity plan
EDMONTON - Alberta's government is seeking a court ruling on the constitutionality of Ottawa's clean electricity grid regulations. The regulations were finalized late last year and lay out a plan to decarbonize electricity grids across Canada by 2025. Abandoning the regulations is one of nine demands Premier Danielle S...
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Indigenous chiefs call for Alberta Premier Smith to stop stoking separatism talk
EDMONTON - Two First Nations chiefs are accusing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of "attempting to manufacture a national unity crisis" and are calling on her to stop stoking the fires of separatism. Smith's government has proposed legislation that would make it easier for citizens to call for a referendum on ...
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Canada
CP NewsAlert: Canadian automobile parts won't be hit with Trump's tariffs
WASHINGTON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection guidance released today says automobile parts compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade will not be hit with U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The 25 per cent auto part duties were set to go in place on May 3. More to come. Kelly Geraldine Malone, The ...
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Terrebonne riding flips from the Liberals back to the Bloc after validation process
OTTAWA - The federal riding of Terrebonne in Quebec has gone from the Liberals' win column back to the Bloc Québécois after a post-election vote validation process. Bloc candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, who had represented the riding since 2021, says in a social media post that she came out wi...
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Court gives green light to part of '60s Scoop' class action
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has rejected the federal government's motion to dismiss a claim for monetary relief in a class-action lawsuit brought by non-status individuals and Métis who were involved in the so-called "'60s Scoop." It's also granting the plaintiffs' request for a motion declaring that th...
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Teen whose family was killed at festival thanks donors, gives back
VANCOUVER - A teenager who lost his family in a ramming attack at a Vancouver festival is thanking those who donated to a fundraising campaign and says he'll give about half of the proceeds to other victims. In a video statement on social media, 16-year-old Andy Le says he wants to thank those who donated to the GoFund...
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Quebec to ban cellphones in elementary and high schools during entire school day
QUÉBEC - The Quebec government is expanding its cellphone ban in schools, prohibiting the devices on the grounds of the province's elementary and high schools for the entire school day. Education Minister Bernard Drainville says the measure will encourage young people to socialize and will help prevent cyberbull...
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Share of Americans ranking Canada as top ally U.S. doubles despite Trump's rhetoric
OTTAWA - Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claim that Canada has been ripping off the United States, new polling suggests the proportion of Americans identifying Canada as their country's most important ally has doubled. Twelve per cent of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center in March named Canada a...
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World
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported. The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporar...
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Driver who killed 4 after hitting Illinois after-school building may have had medical emergency
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The driver of a car that barreled through a building used for a popular after-school camp in central Illinois, killing three children and a teenager, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and may have had a medical emergency, police said Thursday. No decisions have been made on whethe...
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime law
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is the first judge to rule that the Alien Enemies Act cannot be used against people whom the Republican administration claims ar...
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