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Cash and Camping lottery asking for help to reach goal with sales down this year
Less than two weeks remain in the Cash and Camping lottery and ticket sales have seen a significant decline. It provides funds to regional non-profit groups and may not be able to present cheques to t...
Jul 14, 2022

The Grande Prairie Sunrise House officially broke ground on a new facility
Grande Prairie's Sunrise House Youth Emergency Shelter broke ground on a new facility on 107 Avenue and 110 Street Wednesday. Executive Director Tanya Wald, says this has been in the works for 13 year...
Jul 13, 2022

Organizers estimate 1200-1400 people came to a Pierre Poilievre rally in Grande Prairie
Organizers say between 1200 and 1400 people gathered at the Bonnett's Energy Centre Tuesday afternoon for a rally in support of Pierre Poilievre's campaign to become the leader of the Conservative Par...
Jul 12, 2022

Clairmont Centre for Recycling and Waste Management closed after early morning fire
The Clairmont Centre for Recycling and Waste Management is currently closed after a fire broke out at the facility Tuesday morning. County fire crews from Clairmont, Sexsmith, and the Dunes were calle...
Jul 12, 2022

More young people among city's homeless population
More young adults being among the city's homeless population was one of the items contained in a presentation to Grande Prairie city council at Monday's meeting.The presentation came from the Communit...
Jul 12, 2022

Council highlights from Monday's meeting
Other highlights from Monday's Grande Prairie city council meeting:Council has directed administration to do a speed study on 100 Avenue downtown. A downtown business owner had come to council with co...
Jul 12, 2022

Rogers apologizes for outage, no word yet when it will be resolved
There is still no word from Rogers on when it might be able to resolve a widespread network outage that has left many customers without mobile and internet service. Rogers has apologized for the outag...
Jul 08, 2022

National unemployment rate hits another record low while Alberta rate dips below five per cent
The economic region that includes Grande Prairie and the Peace country continues to have the second-lowest unemployment rate in Alberta. According to figures released Friday morning, the local jobless...
Jul 08, 2022

One of five people charged after murder of Clairmont man sentenced on manslaughter charge
One of the people charged after the murder of a 19-year-old Clairmont man has pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter.Justin John Bishop had originally been charged with murder after the death of K...
Jul 07, 2022

Warkentin backing Poilievre in federal Conservative leadership race
Grande Prairie-Mackenzie MP Chris Warkentin says he is supporting Pierre Poilievre in the federal Conservative leadership race."I do believe that he's a guy that's best equipped to lead our party forw...
Jul 07, 2022