Peace Region

Tanker truck fire closes Highway 49 east of Dawson Creek

DriveBC says Highway 49 remains closed in both directions at the Pouce Coupe bridge, following a tanker truck fire Saturday morning that also led to an oil spill into the Pouce Coupe River below.The B...

Nov 16, 2019 A photo taken of the scene Saturday morning (Photo: Twitter / @SpillsInfoBC / @Bob_Fulton_DCFR )

1.25% increase in property taxes settled on at final day of city budget deliberations

The final day of 2020 budget deliberations finished Friday.Council has settled on a tax increase of 1.25 per cent, roughly $37.87 per year for the average home.Day one went Wednesday and saw a cut of ...

Nov 15, 2019

RCMP seek information on suspects of B&E in Bezanson

Grande Prairie RCMP are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspects involved in a break and enter in Bezanson.At around 4:40 am on Saturday, October 26, officers responded to a report of ...

Nov 15, 2019 Suspects of a break and enter at the Bezanson General Store (photos courtesy of Grande Prairie RCMP)

Woman killed in crash near Salt Prairie

High Prairie RCMP say a 24-year-old woman was killed and another woman was taken to hospital after a car-semi collision on November 8.It happened around 1:30 a.m. on Highway 750 near Salt Prairie.Moun...

Nov 15, 2019

Grande Prairie Public School Division feels effects of Provincial Budget cuts

The Grande Prairie Public School Division has lost $4.9 million in government grants.The school division is funded through Alberta Education, in a combination of various grants and per-student allocat...

Nov 15, 2019 Grande Prairie Public School Division logo (Facebook)

Freezing rain warnings end, roads re-opening

UPDATE: (2:53 pm) 511 Alberta says Highway 59 is open again. The freezing rain warning for Grande Cache and Hinton has ended.The freezing rain warning has ended for Grande Prairie, Beaverlodge, and Va...

Nov 15, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

Multiple area highways closed due to collisions

UPDATE (10:46 a.m. Friday): 511 Alberta reports that Highway 40 between Grande Prairie and the Cutbank River is now opened as crews have cleared the road of multiple collisions this morning.Grande Pra...

Nov 15, 2019

School buses cancelled Friday due to freezing rain

School buses for all area school divisions have been cancelled today due to inclement road conditions, caused by the freezing rain.Those cancellations affect all First Student buses (Grande Prairie Pu...

Nov 15, 2019

UPDATE: Freezing rain warning ended for Grande Prairie, Peace Country

UPDATE (12:38 p.m. Friday): Environment Canada has ended the freezing rain warning for the Grande Prairie, Beaverlodge and Valleyview areas. The warning has also been pulled from the Peace River, Mann...

Nov 15, 2019

Hospital Foundation and Habitat For Humanity benefit from Rotary Club donations

The Rotary Club of Grande Prairie has made two massive donations to worthy causes, that will benefit Grande Prairie residents in the long term.The Club held a special event, to hand out two massive ch...

Nov 14, 2019 Rotary Club of Grande Prairie hands out cheques to Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation and Habitat for Humanity (photo by Liam Verster)