Category Archives: Peace Region
Total lunar eclipse Sunday night
Last night, the moon, Earth and sun lined up to create a total lunar eclipse, which was visible throughout North and South America — and if weather permitted, even cross the Atlantic to parts of...
Jan 21, 2019
Energy project subject of Wembley open house tonight
A proposed expansion to the Source Energy Services rail terminal in Wembley will be the subject of an open house tonight. The company is looking at a crude-by-rail joint venture with Tidewater Midstre...
Jan 21, 2019
No injuries in Saturday night fire in Grande Prairie
The Grande Prairie Fire Department says no one was injured in what it describes as a multi-residential structure fire in Grande Prairie Saturday night. It did not say which building was involved, but ...
Jan 20, 2019
UPDATE: Grande Prairie RCMP confirm suspicious death
UPDATE (6:49 p.m. Jan 20): Grande Prairie RCMP now say they are investigating what they describe as the suspicious death of an adult male. Police were called to an altercation around 1:30 a.m. Sunday ...
Jan 20, 2019
National accolades for Eastlink Centre
Chatelaine says the Eastlink Centre has one of the top dozen indoor pools in all of Canada. The story on the magazine’s web site lists all the features in the aquatics area, adding people who us...
Jan 20, 2019
High Level broadcasting student awarded scholarship
A High Level student in Radio, Television and Broadcast news at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology has been awarded the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Prairie Equity Scholarship. Alyssa Stoyan...
Jan 19, 2019
Local representatives confident 2022 Winter Games will be held in Grande Prairie region
The Arctic Winter Games Selection Committee is in the process of determining where the 2022 games will be taking place. The decision has come down to Grande Prairie or Fort McMurray. The Selection Com...
Jan 19, 2019
Three injured in explosion, Grande Prairie RCMP investigating
Grande Prairie RCMP say three people were injured in an explosion Friday afternoon at an oil and gas facility south of the city. Mounties say it happened around 2:30 p.m. in a compression building loc...
Jan 18, 2019
Court update: sentencing in mansalughter, drug and stabbing cases
Manslaughter sentences handed out in High Prairie Alberta Justice says two people charged after the 2015 death of a 20-year-old High Prairie man have been given jail time. On Wednesday, a High Prairie...
Jan 18, 2019
UCP leader to speak in Peace Region next week
United Conservative party leader Jason Kenney will be in the Peace Region next week, speaking to members of the public on what is billed as a "conversation about Alberta's future". Kenney will be host...
Jan 18, 2019