Category Archives: Peace Region
Province adds 59 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday
The province has confirmed 59 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total in Alberta to 6,157. The North Zone remains at 226 confirmed cases. Alberta has also confirmed 184 more rec...
May 09, 2020
North Peace Stampede Association cancels 2020 events
The North Peace Stampede Association has announced that it is cancelling it's two summer events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and provincial mandates banning large gatherings. They add both the Big 4 ...
May 09, 2020
Reel Shorts Film Festival to host Virtual Cinema
The Reel Shorts Film Festival, that was supposed to open on May 5, has been postponed this year until 2021, but they will be running a Virtual Cinema instead. Organizers have partnered with Toronto-ba...
May 09, 2020
Warkentin seeking more reasonable provisions in gun ban
Grande Prairie Mackenzie Chris Warkentin describes the federal government's firearms ban as "unthinkable."He says millions of law-abiding firearm owners will become criminals with the stroke of a pen....
May 09, 2020
Recoveries top 4,000 in Alberta as province adds 81 new COVID-19 cases
Alberta has added 81 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, while just one new case was identified in northern Alberta for May 8.Chief Medical Officer of Health in Alberta, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, also said 4,02...
May 08, 2020
Grande Prairie sees province's highest rate of fentanyl-related fatalities in 2019
Though the rate of apparent fentanyl-related poisoning deaths steadily dropped throughout 2019, Grande Prairie still saw the highest rate of fatalities among the province's major municipalities for th...
May 08, 2020
GPREP to launch PPE program for relaunching businesses
The Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership (GPREP) will be begin accepting applications next week for its PPE4Biz program, which will make personal protective equipment like gloves, masks and h...
May 08, 2020
2019 Bear Lake Growing Project wraps up after winter-long delay
by Jeanette BeyerThe 2019 Bear Lake Growing Project crop has been combined.Five combines picked up the 130 acres of canola in three hours on Wednesday after it had to stay out all winter. Money from s...
May 08, 2020
M.D. of Greenview taking a pause on Tri-Municipal Industrial Partnership development
The Municipal District of Greenview says that further development of the Tri-Municipal Industrial Partnership (TMIP) with both the City and County of Grande Prairie will be taking a pause due to the e...
May 08, 2020
Aaron Goodvin, Brett Kissel headline "Streaming for STARS" concert Friday
Some big names within the country music scene are coming together to help fundraise for STARS air ambulance with a virtual concert Friday evening.With many of the air ambulance service's spring and su...
May 08, 2020