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Growing the North Conference to feature Google rep, Argonauts CEO, and more

The 11th annual Growing the North Conference is going at Evergreen Park on February 19 and 20, 2020, and features a range of speakers and topics.The two day event is designed to bring together municip...

Jan 17, 2020

Peace Country Beef Congress starts Friday

More than 100 cattle will be on display at this year's Peace Country Beef Congress.The 22nd edition of the annual show gets going at 10 a.m. Friday at Dawson Creek's Lakoda Agri-Plex.President Keegan ...

Jan 10, 2020 Photo from the Peace Country Beef Congress Facebook page.

Plant that would produce fuel out of garbage may come to Grande Prairie

A pair of companies are hoping to build a plant that produces fuel from feedstock derived from garbage in Grande Prairie.Local company Renewable U Energy and Red Deer-based Cielo Waste Solutions would...

Jan 09, 2020 Photo: Cielo Waste Solutions.

Wet weather continues to interrupt harvest

The latest crop report from Alberta Agriculture says farmers in the Peace have been able to do some swathing over the past week, but not much combining because of continued wet conditions. In the repo...

Sep 20, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith