Grande Prairie Mayor Jackie Clayton has revealed that Grande Prairie has been selected as the host for the 2028 55 Plus Alberta Winter Games. The event will happen in March of that year. Mayor Clayton says the event will be a great time to showcase what the Swan City has to offer through local businesses and bring new ...

Applications are open for the County of Grande Prairie's Connected Community Grant.The grant supports local programs, events, and projects that strengthen community connections and enhance quality of life.The grant is available in three application categories: Community Vibrancy and Wellness, Sponsorships, Donations an...

The 2026 edition of the Northern Spirit Light Show will open in just over a week. The Peace Draft Horse Club says in a social media post that the show will open on November 13 in Evergreen Park. It will then be open every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday until December 3, when it will be open every day through New...

The City of Grande Prairie has made changes to their residential snow removal program.While the city will remain on its Week A/Week B rotation, several neighbourhoods will switch to a different week.Kensington moves from Thursday Week A to Thursday Week B.Crystal Ridge, Lakeland, Crystal Lake Estates, Copperwood, and E...

The Government of Alberta is proposing legislative changes to strengthen protections for people receiving care, improve health-system accountability and clarify funding rules for medical services.Bill 39, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2026 (No. 2), includes changes to several provincial health laws, including legi...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says sweeping Democrat wins in the U.S. midterm elections are a vindication of her approach to the cross-border trade war. Smith says her government has always opposed tariffs and the harms they cause on both sides of the border. The Democrats on Tuesday took control of both houses of Con...

Groups representing eye surgeons in Canada and Alberta are calling on the province to reverse a decision to let optometrists do some minor surgeries. The Canadian Ophthalmological Society, the Eye Physicians and Surgeons Association of Alberta and the Alberta Medical Association's ophthalmology section say it's a matte...

ATCO is reminding Albertans about the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO), especially as the weather gets colder.Nov. 1-7 is Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week, and it is a timely message this time of year as people turn on furnaces, fireplaces, and other fuel-burning appliances."Carbon monoxide is a silent and potentiall...

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning local businesses of a recent credit card scam in Alberta.Mary O'Sullivan-Andersen, President and CEO of BBB Alberta, said fraudsters are contacting local businesses and purchasing goods using stolen and fraudulent credit cards."This scam was targeting the trucking indust...

Alberta is expanding its health-care workforce faster than any other province, performing more surgeries per capita than the national average and paying physicians above the national average, as new data point to growth across the province's health-care system.Figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information ...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament say they have all-party support to speed through a bill to grant wartime service recognition to veterans of modern conflicts like Afghanistan. The Canadian government has not formally designated anything as wartime servic...

OTTAWA - Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson accused the Tories today of peddling conspiracy theories as they asked questions about who the Liberals are seconding to work at the government's major projects office. Conservative pipeline and energy criti...

VICTORIA - A glut of empty condos in British Columbia should not be seen as evidence that the market is working, said a housing expert who warned against winding back policies of the outgoing NDP government designed to tame prices and rent. Alexandra F...

OTTAWA - A national spy watchdog report says the military's policy on the collection of information about Canadians doesn't do enough to address the privacy risks posed by online searches. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency found the ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will circle the Earth next week as he attends four global summits in eight days. Carney will return to Dublin five months after his last visit, this time for a meeting of the European Political Community, which bring...

Police say 20 people were hurt when a shuttle bus chartered by a contractor for a data centre company went off the highway near Mackenzie, B.C. A statement from the RCMP describes the remote scene as "chaotic" and says the injuries range from minor to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Michigan voters had rejected "a hateful, spiteful campaign" after months of Republican attacks on his Muslim identity in one of the nation's most closely watched Se...

Democrat William Lawrence won election Wednesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Michigan's 7th Congressional District, defeating Republican incumbent Tom Barrett. Lawrence, who previously described himself as a democratic socialist, ...

Democrat Tom Suozzi won election Wednesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 3rd Congressional District, defeating Republican Michael LiPetri. Suozzi was aggressively targeted by Republicans but won in a Long Island district ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A gunman plowed a car into a courtyard on Citibank's sprawling Tampa business campus on Wednesday and opened fire with a rifle, killing a woman before a security guard fatally shot him, authorities said. The Hillsboroug...

Democrat Randy Villegas won election Wednesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing California's 22nd Congressional District, defeating Republican incumbent David Valadao. Villegas is a progressive who was endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump gave extended comments Wednesday, not about the Republican Party's midterm election wipeout but instead justifying his building a sprawling White House ballroom. Trump invited reporters into a cave...