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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

Grande Prairie Museum launches new exhibition "Archives At Work"

The Grande Prairie Museum is celebrating the launch of a new exhibit called "Archives at Work."A celebration will be held on Friday, October 4, at the museum in coordination with the launch of the exh...

Oct 03, 2019 South Peace Regional Archives

County of Grande Prairie expands Recreation Fee Assistance Program

The County of Grande Prairie is expanding a program that allows people facing financial barriers access to recreation facilities.The Recreation Fee Assistance Program, which was launched last year, gi...

Oct 03, 2019

RCMP investigating mysterious animal deaths in the BC Peace

Fort St. John RCMP are investigating a pair of mysterious livestock deaths.Mounties got a report of a horse being found dead on October 1 after getting one about a bull being found dead September 22. ...

Oct 03, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith