Author Archives: Curtis Galbraith
Emergency Alert issued for Minburn County as fire burns at oil lease site
UPDATE: The alert has been cancelled. A critical emergency alert has been issued for the County of Minburn Tuesday evening, Jan. 30.The County of Minburn is located east of Edmonton."There is an out o...
Jan 30, 2024
Contamination from old Alberta Rockies coal mines raises cleanup questions
EDMONTON - A former coal mine in the Alberta Rockies is releasing a contaminant toxic to fish at rates more than dozens of times higher than federal and provincial guidelines, while another periodical...
Jan 30, 2024
CP NewsAlert: Trucker loses bid for third trial in killing of woman at Edmonton hotel
EDMONTON - Alberta's highest court has dismissed a former Ontario truck driver's bid for a third trial in the 2011 death of a woman in an Edmonton hotel. Bradley Barton was sentenced to 12 1/2 years f...
Jan 29, 2024
Stay of proceedings for Slave Lake man in Bowden Institution drug investigation
There has been a stay of proceedings for a Slave Lake man charged in a year-and-a-half long drug investigation at the Bowden Institution.Braden Foster, 33, was scheduled for trial in Red Deer Court of...
Jan 24, 2024
Two Grande Prairie residents arrested in oilfield theft investigation
A pair of Grande Prairie residents have been arrested in connection to oil and gas site thefts taking place in northwestern Alberta and northeastern B.C.The thefts took place in the County of Grande P...
Jan 24, 2024
Women's curling provincials start Wednesday
A couple of curlers from the Peace start their defence of a provincial title Wednesday evening in St. Paul Nampa-raised skip Kayla Skrlik's team plays Edmonton's Nicky Kaufman in Draw 1 of the Alberta...
Jan 24, 2024
Joint use facilities for local school divisions planned for Fairview
Two local school divisions are working to develop joint-use facilities in the town of Fairview.The Grande Prairie & District Catholic School Division's Board of Trustees passed a motion adding a K...
Jan 23, 2024
Curling from the weekend: Grande Prairie team wins world title, U15 qualifier at GPCC
Grande Prairie can boast a world champion curling team.The team of Doug Small, Darlene Bathgate, Connie Anderson and Vernon Boyd ([pictured) won the mixed curling gold medal at the Winter World Master...
Jan 22, 2024
Peace Country athletes representing Canada at Winter Youth Olympic Games
Two athletes from the Peace will be among the 79 representing Canada at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games.Annika Behnke of Peace River and Kole Sauve of Grande Prairie will compete in pairs figure s...
Jan 18, 2024
Alberta releases first report on well cleanup; $33B liability estimate called too low
Alberta's oil and gas producers spent nearly $700 million in 2022 on cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of old wells that dot the province, the regulator's first report on the extent of those liabi...
Jan 17, 2024