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Grande Prairie dancer to grace Juno Awards stage Sunday
Justice Walker, a Grande Prairie native, will be one of many talented performers broadcasted live from the 2025 Juno Awards being held in Vancouver on March 30.Walker is of Indigenous descent and was ...
Mar 28, 2025
Canada's most wanted: Quebec street gang leader arrested in Rome hideout
MONTREAL - Canada's most wanted fugitive has been arrested in Italy after more than a year at large. Dave (Pik) Turmel, alleged by police to be the head of Quebec street gang Blood Family Mafia, was a...
Mar 28, 2025
Memphis Grizzlies fire Taylor Jenkins, franchise's winningest coach
The Memphis Grizzlies fired Taylor Jenkins, their winningest coach, on Friday with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the postseason. Still sitting at ...
Mar 28, 2025
City of Grande Prairie annual City Scrub returns in April
The City of Grande Prairie is encouraging residents to help clean up their city over April.Grande Prairie's City Scrub is set to run April 2-30, with residents asked to spend 20 minutes picking up lit...
Mar 28, 2025
'He can make you look stupid': NHL goalies on the challenge of facing Alex Ovechkin
Mackenzie Blackwood can describe the sequence down to its finest detail. The spot on the ice. How the shot went in. And, of course, which player fired the puck by his ear before there was time to reac...
Mar 28, 2025
Memphis Grizzlies part ways with coach Taylor Jenkins, franchise's winningest coach
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Memphis Grizzlies have parted ways with their winningest coach, Taylor Jenkins, with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the p...
Mar 28, 2025
GPPS Community Standards Unit apprehends Canada-wide wanted man
The Grande Prairie Police Service's newly established Community Standards Unit has successfully apprehended a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.On the morning of March 26, GPPS officers on patrol ob...
Mar 28, 2025
Vance and wife tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit
NUUK, Greenland (AP) - Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among G...
Mar 28, 2025
Estate of late Savoura founder sues helicopter company in 2019 deadly Quebec crash
MONTREAL - A United States helicopter company is facing a $50-million lawsuit in the 2019 crash that killed the founder of a Quebec greenhouse farming company and his teenage son. The estate of Stphan...
Mar 28, 2025
Brad Marchand in the lineup Friday for his Panthers' debut
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Brad Marchand is ready for his Florida debut. The Panthers said Marchand - who, because of an upper-body injury, hasn't appeared in a game with Florida since being acquired in a t...
Mar 28, 2025