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City to hold free education session on the dangers of opioids

The City of Grande Prairie's Community Opioid Response Task Force is holding a public information session on the opioid crisis on Wednesday.Jasmin Marshall, the Program Services Coordinator with Commu...

Nov 18, 2019

Tanker truck fire closes Highway 49 east of Dawson Creek

DriveBC says Highway 49 remains closed in both directions at the Pouce Coupe bridge, following a tanker truck fire Saturday morning that also led to an oil spill into the Pouce Coupe River below.The B...

Nov 16, 2019 A photo taken of the scene Saturday morning (Photo: Twitter / @SpillsInfoBC / @Bob_Fulton_DCFR )

Woman killed in crash near Salt Prairie

High Prairie RCMP say a 24-year-old woman was killed and another woman was taken to hospital after a car-semi collision on November 8.It happened around 1:30 a.m. on Highway 750 near Salt Prairie.Moun...

Nov 15, 2019

Grande Prairie Public School Division feels effects of Provincial Budget cuts

The Grande Prairie Public School Division has lost $4.9 million in government grants.The school division is funded through Alberta Education, in a combination of various grants and per-student allocat...

Nov 15, 2019 Grande Prairie Public School Division logo (Facebook)

Freezing rain warnings end, roads re-opening

UPDATE: (2:53 pm) 511 Alberta says Highway 59 is open again. The freezing rain warning for Grande Cache and Hinton has ended.The freezing rain warning has ended for Grande Prairie, Beaverlodge, and Va...

Nov 15, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

School buses cancelled Friday due to freezing rain

School buses for all area school divisions have been cancelled today due to inclement road conditions, caused by the freezing rain.Those cancellations affect all First Student buses (Grande Prairie Pu...

Nov 15, 2019

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)