Provincial Politics
Referendum day voting in Grande Prairie
Albertans will be heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the province's historic and hotly contested referendum on Monday, October 19.Ten questions are on the ballot, including the controversial last question asking whether Albertans want to remain part of Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on leaving t...
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Mon, Oct. 19 - Wed, Oct. 21
Keyra Place closed for three days this week
Residents are being made aware that Keyra Place will be closed for part of this week.The City will close the facility from Monday, Oct. 19 to Wednesday, Oct. 21 to accommodate a private booking.Normal operations will resume Thursday.Residetns can get more information by visiting AccessGP.
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Peace Region
Provincial Politics
Referendum day voting in Grande Prairie
Albertans will be heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the province's historic and hotly contested referendum on Monday, October 19.Ten questions are on the ballot, including the controversial last question asking whether Albertans want to remain part of Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on leaving t...
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Mon, Oct. 19 - Wed, Oct. 21
Keyra Place closed for three days this week
Residents are being made aware that Keyra Place will be closed for part of this week.The City will close the facility from Monday, Oct. 19 to Wednesday, Oct. 21 to accommodate a private booking.Normal operations will resume Thursday.Residetns can get more information by visiting AccessGP.
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French For the Future Forum
Local French-second language students to participate in educational event
Over ten local schools will gather at Alliance Church on Monday, Oct. 19 as part of the French For the Future Local Forum.This event is designed to bring together French second-language students to apply their learning in real-world settings and learn the upsides of being bilingual.Emeline Leurent, French for the Futur...
Oct 17, 2026
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Breaking News
UPDATED: St. John Paul II Catholic School hold and secure lifted
The hold and secure at St. John Paul II Catholic School has been lifted, as "a threatening email has been determined not to be credible." The Grande Prairie and District Catholic School District says Police have also been able to determine that the threat came from outside of Canada. In a statement from GPCSD...
Oct 16, 2026
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#Operationimpact2026
GPES removed seven drivers & handed out over 200 tickets Thanksgiving weekend
Grande Prairie Enforcement Services joined the Alberta RCMP in a national traffic-safety campaign, #OperationImpact2026, over the Thanksgiving long weekend.GPES says it issued 223 tickets throughout the weekend, including 137 for speeding; of those speeding tickets, 80 were handed out on Friday, Oct. 9, in school zones...
Oct 16, 2026
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ten question Referendum
Three polling stations already open for Alberta referendum
Three referendum voting stations in Grande Prairie have already opened for advance polls.Design Works Centre, the Prairie Mall and Elks Lodge are open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. every weekday until voting day (Monday, Oct. 19).On election day, St. Joseph Catholic Church will also serve as a polling station, open from 9 a.m....
Oct 15, 2026
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Local Sports
Week 6
Football Alberta Weekly Top-10 Rankings
Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labour Day kickoff) from now up until November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-sid...
Oct 13, 2026
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Local Hockey
Storm pickup pair of weekend wins before four game road trip
The Grande Prairie Storm are on a hot streak to start the AJHL regular season.The team picked up a pair of wins at home over the Thanksgiving weekend after hosting both Devon and Bonnyville.The first game at Bonnetts Energy Centre was Friday night, the Storm won 4-1 over the Devon Xtreme. The second game Saturday had t...
Oct 13, 2026
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Local Sports
NWJHL, Wolves, high school football this weekend
Besides the Storm and Wolves hockey games this weekend, there are a bunch of other games on the local sports schedule.NWJHLIN the Northwest Junior Hockey League Friday, Fairview in Fort St. John starts at 7 p.m. B.C. time. La Crete in Dawson Creek will start at 8 p.m. B.C. time.On Saturday, Beaverlodge will be in Sexs...
Oct 9, 2026
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Agriculture
Crop Report
Peace Region passes harvest completion halfway mark
Before unfavourable weather blanketed the majority of Alberta over the Thanksgiving weekend, producers were in rush to get crops off the field and into storage thanks to a historically late harvest. Provincial major crop harvest completion increased to 78 per cent according to the latest Alberta Crop Report. In the rep...
Oct 14, 2026
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Peace Region Wildfire free
Wildfire danger level low in PRFA, agri-producers still asked to be cautious
The Peace River Forest area wildfire danger rating now sits at low. Alberta Wildfire also reports zero active wildfires in all of northern Alberta. However, even with low wildfire danger levels and cold temperatures, Alberta Wildfire is asking residents to still use caution. Specifically for the PRFA, "agricultura...
Oct 5, 2026
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Crop Report
Favourable weather helps farmers with harvest
Wind and sunshine have helped producers across the province get in the fields to continue with a harvest season that is later than usual.According to the latest Alberta Crop Report by AFSC, there was a 21 per cent increase provincewide in harvest completion for major crops to 60 per cent.When compared to the report bef...
Oct 5, 2026
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Alberta
the final countdown
Carney in Red Deer: Separatism a "dangerous bluff" at "a moment of unprecedented opportunity"
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been on a mission this week, seeking to ensure Albertans know that Ottawa has heard its message loud and clear ahead of Monday's historic referendum.After a boisterous evening in Calgary on Thursday, and ahead of what turned out to be another one just like it in Edmonton on Friday evening...
Oct 17, 2026
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The Everything Red Deer Podcast
Exclusive: rdnewsNOW goes 1-on-1 with Prime Minister Mark Carney
In town to promote national unity ahead of the Oct. 19 referendum in Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with podcast host and rdnewsNOW journalist Josh Hall. This episode is also watchable on YouTube.Also on this episode, senior Alberta NDP MLA Sarah Hoffman, who spoke ou...
Oct 16, 2026
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Provincial Politics
Carney, Smith join forces at Red Deer brewery to stump for a united Canada
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith joined forces at a Red Deer brewery to make a last-ditch plea for Albertans to vote to stay in Canada. Carney, standing with Smith and other politicians, channelled author Charles Dickens in saying Monday's referendum comes at the best and worst of times. He says th...
Oct 16, 2026
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Oct. 19 Referendum
Poilievre urges Albertans not to 'quit' on Canada ahead of separation vote
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he understands separatist disillusionment with the state of affairs in Canada but that quitting isn't the answer. Poilievre says quitting is the easy way out and Albertans are not quitters. He says the solution is to restore the greatness of a country that has been defe...
Oct 16, 2026
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Canada
In the news today: four soldiers killed, Alberta referendum, AI privacy fears
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canadians step up to give blood after fire at Alberta military base kills four Canada's defence minister says some Canadians are rolling up their sleeves to give b...
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Canadians step up to give blood after fire at Alberta military base kills four
Some Canadians are rolling up their sleeves to give blood as the military town of Wainwright, Alta., mourns the four soldiers killed in a weekend training exercise gone fatally wrong. Defence officials have said 84 members of the Princess Patricia's Ca...
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Albertans head to polls in historic referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada
EDMONTON - Albertans head to the polls today for an historic vote on whether they want to stay in Canada. More than 1.3 million Albertans have already cast ballots by mail or in advanced polls in a referendum called by Premier Danielle Smith. They are ...
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Statistics Canada set to release September inflation figures
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to report inflation data for September today. A Reuters poll of economists expects inflation accelerated to 3.2 per cent last month, up from three per cent in August. Economists say persistently high energy prices are ...
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The 4 soldiers killed in fast-moving fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta
WAINWRIGHT - Four Armed Forces members were killed when a fast-moving fire overwhelmed soldiers during a training exercise at CFB Wainwright, southeast of Edmonton, on Saturday. Dozens of others were injured, with 39 still in hospital on Sunday. Here's...
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Costed B.C. Conservative platform promises $2.6 B in growth, $10.8B deficit
The British Columbia Conservatives say their election platform amounts to restraint, not austerity, and will create $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years, while shrinking the deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030. The document released Sunday, with r...
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World
Houthi rebels strike a government military camp in southern Yemen, killing at least 20 fighters
CAIRO (AP) - Iranian-backed Houthi rebels struck a military camp for government forces in southern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 20 soldiers, two Yemeni military officials said. The rebels fired ballistic missiles on the al-Alam milit...
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Typhoon Champi strengthens to Category 5 but moves away from land; Trudy weakens
MIAMI (AP) - Typhoon Champi has moved from the western Pacific into the Philippine Sea and has become a Category 5 super typhoon, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It had maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (258 kph) by late...
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Australian prime minister says lawmaker critically injured by car is 'no accident'
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A car hit an Australian federal independent lawmaker on Monday, critically injuring her in an apparent deliberate attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The driver was arrested. Helen Haines, 65, was str...
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