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Thanks to plenty of precipitation over the past 48 hours, Evacuation Orders have been downgraded to Evacuation Alerts across the Grande Prairie Forest Area. The wildfire danger rating has also dropped...

All County of Grande Prairie evacuees can now return home, as recent rain, favourable conditions and firefighting efforts have significantly slowed the blaze. According to GPREP's latest update, resid...

GRPEP says heavy rainfall, favourable conditions and hard work from local firefighting crews have led them to rescind more evacuation orders. Now, residents residing north of Township Road 710 to 740,...

In the 27th update on the Kiskatinaw River Wildfire from the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership, no new growth was reported overnight thanks to the efforts of firefighters holding containme...

Saddle Hills County has updated the evacuation order for the Blueberry Mountain wildfire. Due to increased fire activity, the evacuation order has been expanded to all those between Township Road 804 ...

After receiving a tip from INTERPOL regarding a Grande Prairie male luring children into sending him "intimate images," RCMP have a suspect in custody. In April, Mounties received the tip, and on Mond...

The MD of Greenview has issued an evacuation order due to an out of control wildfire (GWF040), located about 81 km south of Grande Prairie and 19 km east of Highway 40. The evacuation order is in effe...

A fire that was first detected on May 22 in the Grande Prairie Forest Area (GWF028) has increased in activity and size due to dry and windy conditions. It is located approximately 7 km from Moonshine ...

UPDATE:Grande Prairie RCMP have provided an update on this morning's fire at the Margarte Edgson Manor. Mounties say they assisted in evacuating the apartment complex of more than 68 people, and so fa...

Wildfire crews from Alberta Wildfire and the County of Grande Prairie were able to begin actioning the Alberta side of the Kiskatinaw Wildfire Saturday, June 7.Weather conditions remained stable throu...