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More cuts made at Thursday's Budget deliberations

Day two of the 2020 budget deliberations went Thursday with further reductions. Wednesday saw the reduction of items city management recommended as having the least impact on services, while day two s...

Nov 14, 2019

30 charges laid in distracted driving crackdown

Grande Prairie RCMP's Municipal Traffic Unit conducted a traffic operation on Wednesday, with a focus on distracted driving and seat belt use. During the course of the day, a total 30 charges were lai...

Nov 14, 2019

Beaverlodge Fire Department reminds drivers to obey laws involving emergency vehicles

After being slowed down by traffic on the way to a collision scene, the Beaverlodge Fire Department is reminding drivers on how to react around emergency vehicles.On Tuesday, first responders on their...

Nov 14, 2019 Beaver Lodge Fire Truck (photo by Shaun Penner)

Urgency key in attacking rural crime spike: Minister Schweitzer

One thing was clear to Doug Schweitzer as he heard from residents of Alberta during his Rural Crime Town Hall tour: the need to combat the issue was urgent.The province's Justice Minister has made a n...

Nov 14, 2019 Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer announced several policy changes to help address the issue of rural crime last week near Wetaskiwin (Photo: Government of Alberta)

Salvation Army's Christmas Kettle campaign in need of donations, volunteers

The Grande Prairie Salvation Army is calling for donations, and volunteers, for their annual Christmas Kettle fundraiser.A brass quartet played Christmas tunes as the Salvation Army launched their fun...

Nov 14, 2019 Peter Kim at the launch of the Salvation Army's Christmas Kettle fundraiser (photo by Liam Verster)

Money for bridge project in Peace River still in the provincial budget

The province says money for continued work on twinning the Highway 2 bridge in Peace River is in the new budget.Alberta Transportation says there is $56-million in Budget 2019 for this project.Constru...

Nov 14, 2019 Photo from the Alberta Transportation web site

Spring Creek Road reopened, with conditions

Crews have finished preliminary slope and repair work on a section of Township Road 711, known as Spring Creek Road, and the road has now reopened to traffic.Traffic is still limited to 30 km/h in the...

Nov 13, 2019 Spring Creek Road (photo courtesy of County of Grande Prairie)

Some reductions approved at city hall budget talks

City Council has approved some reductions for the RCMP, Enforcement Services, and fire department at 2020 budget talks.The cuts come from changing operating hours, eliminating overlap and not filling ...

Nov 13, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

Three more men charged in string of break and enters

Grande Prairie RCMP have charged three more individuals in relation to the rash of break and enters the City saw between July and October.Police say they received approximately 60 reports of break and...

Nov 13, 2019

City considering possible shadow population count

The Corporate Services Committee met Tuesday morning and adopted the results of the 2018 municipal census.While the results had already been made available, they needed to be approved by the province ...

Nov 13, 2019 Photo: Curtis Galbraith