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Province creates committee to examine automobile insurance

EDMONTON, AB - The provincial government is looking at ways to improve auto insurance in Alberta.Finance Minister and GP-Wapiti MLA Travis Toews announced a new committee that will examine auto insura...

Dec 18, 2019 GP-Wapiti MLA and Finance Minister Travis Toews makes the announcement of the three-member panel at a press conference in Edmonton Wednesday (Photo: Government of Alberta)

Stay off unsafe storm ponds this winter: City

City Hall is again reminding Grande Prairie residents that storm ponds are not to be used for recreation.The City's Transportation and Parks Manager Robert Carroll says this is because of safety conce...

Dec 18, 2019 Skating and other recreational activities are not safe to do on storm ponds around the City

Tenille Townes to be recognized by Rotary Club of Grande Prairie

Tenille Townes will be recognized for her community involvement and support Friday, December 20, 2019. The Rotary Club of Grande Prairie will be presenting Townes with the Paul Harris Fellow honour at...

Dec 17, 2019

Keillor out as Head Coach of Storm

The Grande Prairie Storm have announced they have relieved Head Coach and Assistant General Manager Matt Keillor of his duties, effective immediately.The news comes ahead of the team's final home game...

Dec 17, 2019 Photo: Shaun Penner

City Council holds last meeting of 2019

Grande Prairie City Council held its last meeting of 2019 Monday.Council has approved having Mayor Bill Given write a letter to K Division, the head office of the RCMP in Alberta, asking that Grande P...

Dec 17, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

Court update: Warrant issued in Fox Creek abduction case, sentence in one drug case, trial dates set in another

An arrest warrant has been issued for the man charged after an alleged abduction of three children in Fox Creek D'artangan Dirk Pool did not show up, nor did a lawyer appear on his behalf, during a sc...

Dec 16, 2019

Grande Prairie pair face additional charges in counterfeit money investigation

Two Grande Prairie residents are facing additional charges in relation to a counterfeit money investigation. This time from the other side of the province.31-year-old Kevin Charles Ross Dewar and 26-y...

Dec 16, 2019

Suspicious person complaint in Sexsmith leads to drugs and weapons charges

Two people are facing charges for drug and weapons offences, after Grande Prairie RCMP responded to a suspicious persons complaint in a rural area of Sexsmith. Just after 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Decemb...

Dec 16, 2019

Alberta, Ottawa head to province’s Appeal Court over carbon tax dispute

EDMONTON - About a year ago, Alberta's United Conservative Party leader stood in front of 1,500 raucous supporters and called the federal carbon tax an act of "economic masochism" that he would fight ...

Dec 16, 2019

Winter Try-It Day returning to Grande Prairie

Winter Try-It Day is returning to Grande Prairie for its sixth year on January 18, 2020. The day is operated by the Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection and gives kids aged 6-17 an opportunity to ...

Dec 16, 2019 Photo Credit: Grande Prarie Regional Sport Connection Facebook page.