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Grande Prairie Cricket Association hoping for new turf come spring time

The Grande Prairie Cricket Association is hoping to have new turf for their cricket pitch in 2020.Their application for a Parks Improvement Grant from the city has been approved by the Infrastructure ...

Dec 12, 2019 Photo from the GPCA Facebook page

The Tree of Hope will shine in Grande Prairie again this year

A local man is once again creating a Tree of Hope, and asking people to help with decorations.Wesley L'Hirondelle is asking people to bring ornaments with names of loved ones they lost, or messages of...

Dec 12, 2019 Tree of Hope (photo by Liam Verster)

Annual Candy Cane Campaign sets up in Grande Prairie Thursday

If you go through a check stop in Grande Prairie today, it may not be for a bad reason.Alberta Health Services is holding their annual Candy Cane campaign in the city today, where they will be handing...

Dec 12, 2019 Photo: Alberta Health Services

Gold for Woking's Gary MacDonald at World Arm Wrestling Championships

Gary MacDonald of Woking, Alberta won a gold and silver medal at the 2019 World Armwrestling Championships this past weekend in Rumia, Poland. Gary won gold in the Senior-Grand-Masters 75 KG left hand...

Dec 11, 2019 Photo Credit: Joe Fox

City to continue to advocate for online police reporting tool

The City of Grande Prairie is hoping to be home to an online police reporting pilot project in the future.Mayor Bill Given had instructed City Administration to report back on how to introduce the too...

Dec 11, 2019

GPFC's Aboriginal Head Start program earns provincial recognition

The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre's Aboriginal Head Start program has received provincial honours for their work.The program was named a recipient of one of the Minister's Awards of Excellence in C...

Dec 10, 2019 Program Coordinator for the Aboriginal Head Start program Joleen Bateman is presented with the Minister's Award of Excellence in Child Development at Government House on Monday (Photo: Joleen Bateman)

Snowfall warning issued for northern Peace Country

Many municipalities to the north of Grande Prairie have been placed under a snowfall warning by Environment Canada.Those include Birch Hills, Saddle Hills and Clear Hills County and the communities th...

Dec 10, 2019

Two Peace Region women among winners of Alberta volunteer awards

Six Albertans were recognized at the 2019 Stars of Alberta volunteer awards in Edmonton on December 5th.The event is held to coincide with International Volunteer Day, which was started by the United ...

Dec 09, 2019 From left to right: Knud Petersen, Braydon Fix, Minister Aheer, Alicia Bjarnason, Penny Steffen, Maryanne Leathwaite, Madeleine (Maggie) Gervais (Photo courtesy of the Government of Alberta)

Two men charged after firearm discharged inside Grande Prairie residence

Two Grande Prairie males have been charged after a firearm went off inside a residence in the Lakeland neighbourhood. On November 24, 2019, RCMP responded to a report of shots being fired in a multi-f...

Dec 09, 2019

Charges laid against three Grande Prairie men after residential search recovered stolen mail

Grande Prairie RCMP recovered 46 pieces of mail, belonging to 46 individuals, when they executed a search warrant on December 1 at a home in the Highland Park neighbourhood after receiving calls from ...

Dec 09, 2019