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Team Alberta North prepares for the 2024 Arctic Winter Games
As the 2024 Arctic Winter Games are set to get going in Matanuska-Sustina Valley, Alaska, from March 10 to the 16, Team Alberta North is making its way there. Representing northern Alberta are 192 ath...
Mar 06, 2024
GP MLA launches campaign on foreign credential recognition system
The MLA for Grande Prairie is campaigning to get your feedback on the province's foreign credential recognition system.Nolan Dyck has launched Better for Newcomers to encourage discussion around Bill ...
Mar 06, 2024
Court update: Sentences handed out in murder, break and enter/shot fired and theft/dangerous driving investigations
Life sentence after Sucker Creek murderAlberta Justice says the man charged after a 2021 murder at Sucker Creek First Nation has been found guilty.Travis Myles Melnyk was convicted of first-degree mur...
Mar 05, 2024
Preliminary work to expand kidney care in Grande Prairie underway
Over two years of work by the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation and Alberta Kidney Care on expanded outpatient dialysis treatment in Grande Prairie is starting to see results.Foundation Exec...
Mar 04, 2024
Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital emergency department without a physician for 24 hours starting Monday
Starting Monday, the Beaverlodge Municipal Hospital emergency department will be experiencing a temporary disruption, for 24 hours due to an inability to secure physician coverage.Alberta Health Servi...
Mar 02, 2024
Budget 2024 provides funds for wildfire prevention
The provincial budget is allocating more funds to wildfire prevention efforts across Alberta. $151 million over the next three years will be used to continue prioritizing "new technologies and tactics...
Mar 01, 2024 Photo Courtesy EverythingGP Staff
Provincial 2024 budget local impacts
The Alberta government unveiled its 2024 provincial budget earlier today. (Thursday, February 29) Some items shared on the budget, were previously announced; such as the Northwestern Polytechnic Power...
Feb 29, 2024
ASIRT confirms no fault from Grande Prairie RCMP for 2021 death of a person in custody
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has completed its investigation into the death of a person after being detained by Grande Prairie RCMP. The investigators have determined the person ...
Feb 28, 2024
ATB Chief Economist expects economic growth to slow in Alberta, but will still be better off than the rest of Canada
The Chief Economist at ATB is predicting the Alberta economy will slow a little bit this year, but will still do better than the rest of Canada.Mark Parsons says there are three reasons for this."One ...
Feb 28, 2024
Move to new Sunrise House went "incredibly well" says shelter executive director
Sunrise House Youth Emergency Shelter Executive Director Tanya Wald says the recent move to a new facility went "incredibly well." "For a move of that calibre, the move went really well. We had lots o...
Feb 27, 2024