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Toews promotes budget to Calgary chamber

Alberta's finance minister and the MLA for Grande Prairie/Wapiti says the province will have the luxury of diversifying its revenues after its budget is balanced.Travis Toews told the Calgary Chamber ...

Oct 26, 2019

Mayor Given says cuts to municipal funding "not a surprise"

Big cuts seemed to be the theme of the 2020 Provincial Budget, and Grande Prairie's Mayor is not surprised to see some of the city's funding getting the axe.Funding for Municipal infrastructure was sl...

Oct 25, 2019 City of Grande Prairie Emblem (photo by Emily Keller)

UPDATE: Highway 43 near Demmitt re-opened

UPDATE (2:57 p.m.): Highway 43 has been cleared and reopened for travel. RCMP would like to thank the public for their patience. Beaverlodge RCMP are on Highway 43 helping with the traffic as tow truc...

Oct 25, 2019 A look at the conditions along Highway 43 this morning (Photo submitted by a listener)

RCMP remind motorists to adjust driving due to snowfall

With snow coming down and area road conditions worsening, Grande Prairie RCMP are reminding drivers to slow down and adjust their driving.Roads and highways in the Grande Prairie area may be slippery ...

Oct 25, 2019 Photo of the road conditions in the Grovedale area this morning sent in by a listener

New Alberta budget has money for new schools, maintains health care funding, no money for public sector pay increases

Finance Minister and GP-Wapiti MLA Travis Toews repeated the province would be cutting spending by 2.8 per cent over four years when giving the budget speech Thursday afternoon in the Alberta legislat...

Oct 24, 2019 Finance Minister and GP-Wapiti MLA Travis Toews delivers the budget speech in the Alberta Legislature.

Eastlink Centre's 25 metre pool temporarily shut down due to bacterial contamination

The Eastlink Centre's 25 metre pool has been temporarily shut down due to a bacterial contamination of pseudomonas aeruginosa.There is no timeline so far for when it will re-open, but all aquatics pro...

Oct 24, 2019 Photo: Curtis Galbraith

Snowfall warning in effect for Grande Prairie area

There is a snowfall warning in effect. Rain will begin overnight on Friday, but will change to snow as temperatures drop later Friday morning.Environment Canada has issued the warning for the followin...

Oct 24, 2019

Annual Halloween Foot Parade set for Saturday

On Saturday, little ghosts and zombies, princesses and superheroes will take over downtown with the annual Halloween Foot Parade. Wendy Bosch, Executive Director for the Downtown Association says chil...

Oct 24, 2019

Federal Election 2019 by the numbers

Some interesting numbers have been crunched by Elections Canada in the days since Monday's federal election.The agency says just over 17,890,000 Canadians cast a ballot, with 4.77 million of them, or ...

Oct 24, 2019

Local MLA hearing plenty of frustration from constituents following Monday's election

Following the Liberal's minority government win on Monday, social media has exploded with a call for Alberta's separation from Canada.#Wexit was trending on Twitter and over 223,000 people have joined...

Oct 24, 2019 Nearly a quarter of a million people have joined the group Votewexit on Facebook, as a result of the federal election outcome (Photo: VoteWexit Facebook)