Peace Region

Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection seeking nominees for Northwest Alberta Sport Excellence Awards

The Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection will be hosting their 6th annual Northwest Alberta Sport Excellence Awards on March 6, 2020.The awards give members of their respective communities in nort...

Jan 12, 2020 Photo Credit: EverythingGP

Northern Alberta, Northeastern B.C. under extreme cold warnings

All of Northern Alberta, the Peace Country included, is no under an extreme cold warning.Environment Canada says wind chills could reach -40 throughout the coming week and into next weekend.The B.C. s...

Jan 11, 2020 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

New business aims to help seniors transition to next stage of life

A new business in Grande Prairie is looking to help seniors as they transition to a new phase of their lives.Started by three local nurses just last month, Seniors Best Life is looking to help seniors...

Jan 11, 2020 Shalene Chascha Rycroft (left), Brenda Pelland-McIntosh (middle) and Lindsey Neudorf (right) began the process of starting Seniors Best Life back in June, and officially opened it in December (Photo: Facebook / Seniors Best Life)

City of Dawson Creek a victim of a cyber-attack

The City of Dawson Creek has discovered that it's the victim of a cyber-attack.In the early hours of Thursday, January 9, the City's network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. The at...

Jan 10, 2020

Sexsmith to hold public hearing on potential changes to restricted dog breeds

The Town of Sexsmith will be hosting a public hearing next month about potentially removing restricted breeds from the Animal Control Bylaw.At Town Council on January 6, Council discussed the bylaw an...

Jan 10, 2020 Various pit bull breeds are on the list of restricted breeds in Sexsmith

Western Alberta unemployment ticks up in December, drops nationally

Statistics Canada says the national economy added 35,200 jobs in December, fuelled by a gain in full-time jobs, while the unemployment rate ticked lower.The unemployment rate fell to 5.6 per cent for ...

Jan 10, 2020

No injuries in early morning mobile home fire

At approximately 1:24 a.m. on Friday, January 10, County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Services responded to a fire at a mobile home, north of Sexsmith.Fire crews from Sexsmith, Teepee Creek, Clairm...

Jan 10, 2020 County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Service (County of Grande Prairie twitter)

Grande Prairie man charged for alleged sexual offences against youths

A Grande Prairie man faces multiple charges for alleged sexual offences against youth between October and December.Grande Prairie RCMP say they received several reports of the alleged offences, involv...

Jan 10, 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.

AHS reviewing helicopter operations to determine future service options

Alberta Health Services is reviewing it's Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS), including those that serve Grande Prairie.Gordon Bates, the Associate Executive Director of Provincial Air Ambul...

Jan 09, 2020