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Affordable Housing Strategy and other council highlights

Grande Prairie City council met on Monday. Open delegationsJeremy Walker, President of UDI Grande Prairie and Scott Pravitz, President of the Canadian Home Builder's Association Grande Prairie, both p...

Oct 07, 2019

2019 Vital Signs report coming out Tuesday

The results contained in the 5th Vital Signs survey will be released Tuesday morning at Centre 2000.The biennial check on Grande Prairie and the surrounding area is conducted by the Community Foundati...

Oct 07, 2019

RCMP hope sketch, renderings identify human remains

RCMP in Slave Lake are hoping a composite sketch and a model rendering based on human remains found near the town last year will help identify the victim and bring some clarity to the investigation.Th...

Oct 07, 2019 The photo shows the model rendering completed by RCMP of what the victim is believed to have looked like (Photo: RCMP)

Crime Reduction Lunch & Learn focuses on drug trends in Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie Crime Prevention's November Lunch & Learn event is "Drug Trends in GP."The event is being held at the Muskoseepi Park's Pavilion Meeting Room from 12-1 p.m. on Tuesday, but sold out...

Oct 07, 2019 Grande Prairie Crime Reduction

Volunteer Services Bureau celebrates 50 years in community

Grande Prairie Volunteer Services Bureau celebrated their 50th anniversary on Saturday by planting and dedicating a new tree in the Volunteer Grove of Trees. Executive Director Carol-Anne Pasemko says...

Oct 06, 2019 Photo courtesy Jeff Henson/EverythingGP

Aquatera pays tribute to Lagace

Aquatera has added its own tribute in a park in Sexsmith to former Mayor Claude Lagace.The company has built a waterfall and rock feature.Chief Financial Officer Jeff Pieper says Lagace played a big r...

Oct 06, 2019 Photo supplied by Aquatera

Grande Prairie man arrested in Yellowknife on drug trafficking charges

A Grande Prairie man has been arrested in the Northwest Territories on drug trafficking charges.The RCMP Federal Investigations Unit conducted three searches at two apartment buildings in Yellowknife ...

Oct 04, 2019

Cuteness overload: nine babies born recently to the nursing staff at the QEII Hospital

The nine babies born within the last year that were part of the QEII nursing staff baby boom recently got together for a photo-shoot.Local photographer, Maj Jose caught up with the moms and their babi...

Oct 04, 2019 Top picture taken April 2, 2019 (photo credit Monika Ruether), bottom picture taken October, 2019 (photo credit Maj Photography).

10th Annual Sisters in Spirit Memorial Walk and Candlelight Vigil in G.P. today

Vigils are being held across Alberta today in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. In Grande Prairie, a commemorative monument, Spirit Sisters Rock is being unveiled at 5 p.m. "T...

Oct 04, 2019 The Spirit Sisters Rock will be unveiled today.

Near century-old barn damaged by fire in the County

County fire crews were called to a barn fire south of Bezanson Thursday morning.Shortly after 9 a.m., the County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Service's Bezanson and Clairmont stations responded to ...

Oct 04, 2019 Photo: County of Grande Prairie