Category Archives: Peace Region

City official says emergency calls to the Parkside Inn are down
City officials say police and EMS calls are down at the Parkside Inn since a supportive housing project was installed at that location.Director of Protective and Social Services Chris Manuel spoke to ...
Aug 07, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith

Eleven arrested in two day span in High Prairie
High Prairie RCMP say eleven people were arrested between Friday and Saturday of last week as a result of a collaborative investigation with the High Prairie RCMP General Investigation Section.Between...
Aug 07, 2019
Alberta RCMP start new initiative to combat car theft
Summer in Alberta is a popular time for vacations, but is also when the highest number of vehicle property crimes occur.Last year, from June 1 to August 30, there were more than 3,200 vehicle thefts a...
Aug 07, 2019

Colder and wetter July than normal in Grande Prairie
Mother nature hasn't been too kind to the Swan City so far this summer with the amount of the rain the City and the region has received.Environment Canada Meteorologist Dan Kulak revealed that July 20...
Aug 07, 2019 (photo credit to Curtis Galbraith)

CKC mural project stopped by vandalism
A project to add a mural to the west side of the new grand stand at the Community Knowledge Campus field has been suspended after graffiti was scrawled across the mural.Patty Pura with Enforcement Ser...
Aug 07, 2019 The CKC Grandstand during the gold medal football game at the 2018 Alberta Summer Games. Photo by Curtis Galbraith.

Section of Township Rd. 711 closed; paving starts near Spruce Villa Estates
The heavy rainfall in recent days has done some significant damage to a stretch of Township Road 711 (southwest of Grande Prairie), where the road crosses Spring Creek.With that, effective at 4 p.m. W...
Aug 06, 2019

Grande Prairie man gets jail time for 2017 Jasper police chase
A Grande Prairie man has pleaded guilty to five different criminal code counts stemming from a police chase in Jasper back in 2017.In a release sent out Tuesday by Alberta RCMP, police said 44-year-ol...
Aug 06, 2019

Final community consultation on North West Clairmont ASP goes Thursday
County residents will have a chance to have a look, and have their say, about the North West Clairmont Area Structure Plan at an open house on Thursday.The ASP is being developed as a guide for future...
Aug 06, 2019

Flagger nearly abducted near Fort St. John over weekend
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - RCMP in northeastern British Columbia say a road flagger working alone on a remote stretch of road fought off an abduction attempt.A news release says the woman was directing tra...
Aug 06, 2019

"Some interesting things" turning up at local dinosaur bone beds
A field crew from the University of Alberta has been busy exploring some dinosaur bone bed sites in the Peace Country this summer. They have been working at Pipestone Creek, along with two others call...
Aug 06, 2019 Photo from the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum Facebook page.