Author Archives: Curtis Galbraith

FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA - Hundreds of residents in four neighbourhoods in the southern end of Fort McMurray have been ordered out as a wildfire threatens the community. The Rural Municipality of Wood B...

Monday, May 13 is a big day for the Bezanson and Kleskun 4-H Multi Clubs.They are hosting their Achievement Day today at Evergreen Park.Organizers say the participants and their cattle are safe, even ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is appointing a new committee to look into ways to speed up reclamation of tailings ponds in the province's oilsands. The province says in a release that the committe...

An event held in late April helped raise funds for the Grande Spirit Foundation's Pleasant View Seniors Lodge in Spirit River.On April 20, attendees participated in the 13th annual Spring Break-Up Din...

The City of Grande Prairie has shared a statement from Mayor Jackie Clayton, welcoming those part of the National Aboriginal Hockey Championship to Grande Prairie:"I am pleased to welcome the athletes...

CALGARY - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is complete and the Canada Energy Regulator has given the go-ahead for the project to open. The regulator says it has approved the last remaining "leave...

UPDATE May 7: Slave Lake RCMP would like to advise the public that Daisy Gray was located safe. Alberta RCMP would like to thank the public and the media for their assistance. Slave Lake RCMP are look...

It will be all "smiles" around town next week, but it's starting early in all Grande Prairie schools Thursday and Friday.Ahead of Tim Horton's annual Smile Cookie Campaign, Sean Sargent has donated 22...

Valleyview RCMP say seven people, five kids and two adults, had to be treated in hospital after a collision between a school bus and a truck Monday morning.Mounties say they got a call just after 8:30...

Fresh research suggests western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing. But the same paper concludes the biggest reason for the rebound is the slaughter of hundreds of wolves, a p...