Peace Region

Grande Prairie Cricket Association hoping for new turf come spring time

The Grande Prairie Cricket Association is hoping to have new turf for their cricket pitch in 2020.Their application for a Parks Improvement Grant from the city has been approved by the Infrastructure ...

Dec 12, 2019 Photo from the GPCA Facebook page

The Tree of Hope will shine in Grande Prairie again this year

A local man is once again creating a Tree of Hope, and asking people to help with decorations.Wesley L'Hirondelle is asking people to bring ornaments with names of loved ones they lost, or messages of...

Dec 12, 2019 Tree of Hope (photo by Liam Verster)

Annual Candy Cane Campaign sets up in Grande Prairie Thursday

If you go through a check stop in Grande Prairie today, it may not be for a bad reason.Alberta Health Services is holding their annual Candy Cane campaign in the city today, where they will be handing...

Dec 12, 2019 Photo: Alberta Health Services

Sangudo drug charges against Grande Prairie man withdrawn

Alberta Justice says charges against two people arrested in a drug bust in Sangudo, one of them a man from Grande Prairie, have been withdrawn.The seven charges against William Raymond Blackwood of Gr...

Dec 12, 2019 Photol supplied by RCMP

Data is being collected to create water sources map for rural firefighting efforts

A new interactive map will help firefighters in the county locate nearby water sources.The County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Service has spent the past two months collecting data on high-risk fir...

Dec 11, 2019 Map of fires, water sources, and pipe stands (picture courtesy of County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Service)

City to continue to advocate for online police reporting tool

The City of Grande Prairie is hoping to be home to an online police reporting pilot project in the future.Mayor Bill Given had instructed City Administration to report back on how to introduce the too...

Dec 11, 2019

GPRC's new President and CEO wants to put the school on the map

The new President and CEO of the Grande Prairie Regional College has plans to make the school the education hub of Northern Alberta.Dr. Robert Murray took on the role on Monday, December 2nd, and is a...

Dec 11, 2019 Photo: Liam Verster

Photo radar freeze will still allow City to maintain status quo

The provincial government announced a freeze on Automated Traffic Enforcement (ATE), more commonly referred to as photo radar in November.The freeze came into effect on December 1 and makes it so ther...

Dec 10, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

GPFC's Aboriginal Head Start program earns provincial recognition

The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre's Aboriginal Head Start program has received provincial honours for their work.The program was named a recipient of one of the Minister's Awards of Excellence in C...

Dec 10, 2019 Program Coordinator for the Aboriginal Head Start program Joleen Bateman is presented with the Minister's Award of Excellence in Child Development at Government House on Monday (Photo: Joleen Bateman)

Almost one-third of Peace Region crop still in the field

Almost one-third of the crop in the Peace Country will stay in the field all winter.Alberta Agriculture, in its last crop report of 2019, says the Peace has the most unharvested acres in Alberta as 67...

Dec 10, 2019 Photo by Oleg Zaikin, from www.dreamstime.com