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7 Special Olympics Athletes from GP named to Team Alberta
Special Olympics Grande Prairie revealed Thursday seven of their athletes have been named to Team Alberta for Special Olympics Canada competition in 2020.They will be sending a 5-pin bowling team to N...
May 31, 2019 (photo credit to Special Olympics Alberta)
Couture Council to honour Louboutin and his red-soled shoes
NEW YORK - From a tiny bottle of nail polish, a luxury fashion empire was born. Designer Christian Louboutin says he was experimenting in his factory one day when he suddenly seized his assistant's bo...
May 31, 2019
Elite 8: National Spelling Bee too easy for octet of champs
OXON HILL, Md. - There were warning signs throughout a marathon day of spelling that this Scripps National Spelling Bee would not conclude like any other in the event's 94-year history. Rishik Gandhar...
May 31, 2019
Judge: Kodak Black should remain jailed until trial
MIAMI - Federal prosecutors in Miami on Wednesday successfully appealed a judge's decision to release rapper Kodak Black on bond after his arrest for a weapons violation. In a hearing in U.S. District...
May 31, 2019
Paris wants a 'Princess Diana Square' at site of her death
Paris City Hall wants to name a small plaza after Princess Diana, at the site of the 1997 car crash that killed the cherished British royal. The site is adjacent to the Alma Tunnel where the accident ...
May 31, 2019
Migos' Offset has charges in phone-slapping case dismissed
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - Police in suburban Atlanta have dropped a felony charge against the rapper Offset, who was accused of knocking a cellphone out of a fan's hands. Sandy Springs police Sgt. Sam Wors...
May 31, 2019
Trump urges Roy Moore not to run for US Senate in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - President Donald Trump on Wednesday discouraged Alabama Republican Roy Moore from running for U.S. Senate again in 2020, saying the GOP must regain the once reliably red state and M...
May 31, 2019
Air Quality Health Index off the charts Friday morning
There is thick smoke in the air in the Grande Prairie area. According to the Peace Airshed Zone Association, the Air Quality Health Index hit 26 in Grande Prairie and 36 in Beaverlodge. Anything 10 or...
May 31, 2019 Smoke in the air downtown Grande Prairie May 31, 5:30 a.m.
Hotline to help human trafficking victims, educate public launches across Canada
A national hotline to help victims and survivors of human trafficking is now taking calls, with the organization behind the service saying it hoped the new resource would also fill crucial gaps i...
May 31, 2019
Dutch hostage held by Filipino militants killed in gunbattle
MANILA, Philippines - A long-held Dutch hostage was fatally shot by his militant captors Friday when he tried to escape during a gunbattle in the jungles of the southern Philippines, military official...
May 31, 2019