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RCMP not negligent in death of B.C. teen whose overdose was filmed: watchdog
LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog has concluded two Langley RCMP officers were not negligent in their response to a report of a teenage boy who was in distress after consuming a large...
Dec 09, 2019
Local MP applauds as coast guard works to secure derelict ship from N.S. river
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - The Canadian Coast Guard has secured a listing navy vessel from a Nova Scotia river, in the latest major case to occur in a federal cabinet minister who has champion...
Dec 09, 2019
Feds charge Volkswagen with violating environment law for faking emissions tests
OTTAWA - German auto giant Volkswagen appears ready to strike a plea deal with Canada after being charged Monday for allegedly importing cars into this country that company executives knew violated em...
Dec 09, 2019
Freeland heads to Mexico in effort to finalize new NAFTA revisions
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is to meet American and Mexican officials in Mexico City on Tuesday amid reports a deal to revise the new North American free-trade...
Dec 09, 2019
Two Peace Region women among winners of Alberta volunteer awards
Six Albertans were recognized at the 2019 Stars of Alberta volunteer awards in Edmonton on December 5th.The event is held to coincide with International Volunteer Day, which was started by the United ...
Dec 09, 2019 From left to right: Knud Petersen, Braydon Fix, Minister Aheer, Alicia Bjarnason, Penny Steffen, Maryanne Leathwaite, Madeleine (Maggie) Gervais (Photo courtesy of the Government of Alberta)
Structural study to be done on Clairmont Arena
County of Grande Prairie council has approved funding for an engineering check of the structural integrity of the Clairmont Area.The amount approved in $9850. The building has been closed since a leak...
Dec 09, 2019 Clairmont Arena (Photo from the Clairmont Community Arena Facebook page)
RCMP find suspected car thief hiding in hay
BOWDEN, Alta. - It was way easier than finding a needle in a haystack when RCMP went searching for a suspected car thief in southern Alberta last week.Mounties say they had received a report Friday th...
Dec 09, 2019
Two men charged after firearm discharged inside Grande Prairie residence
Two Grande Prairie males have been charged after a firearm went off inside a residence in the Lakeland neighbourhood. On November 24, 2019, RCMP responded to a report of shots being fired in a multi-f...
Dec 09, 2019
Charges laid against three Grande Prairie men after residential search recovered stolen mail
Grande Prairie RCMP recovered 46 pieces of mail, belonging to 46 individuals, when they executed a search warrant on December 1 at a home in the Highland Park neighbourhood after receiving calls from ...
Dec 09, 2019
Alberta's Fair Deal Panel to stop in Grande Prairie December 18
Peace Country residents will get to have their say on how Alberta should go about getting a "fair deal".The government appointed Fair Deal Panel will be making a stop in Grande Prairie on Wednesday, D...
Dec 09, 2019 Alberta's "Fair Deal Panel" will be holding their Grande Prairie Town Hall at the Teresa Sargent Hall in the Montrose Cultural Centre on December 18 (Photo: Shaun Penner)