Category Archives: Peace Region

Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day, a day when everyone is encouraged to wear pink and take a stand against bullying. Crime Prevention is selling pink shirts with proceeds going toward anti-bullying initiativ...

With the Grande Prairie Regional College on the way to getting university status, fewer people will have to leave the city to further their education. President of the Students’ Association for ...

An 18-year-old man is facing multiple charges after police were called to a residence in the south end of the city last week to reports of a man with a gun making threats. RCMP received the complaint ...

Premier Rachel Notley and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd will release the recommendations made by the Energy Diversification Advisory Committee today (Monday). The committee was established in the ...

Another wildly successful edition of Big Hearts for Big Kids is in the books. The 9th annual musical event and fundraiser, which was sold out this year, brought in 240 thousand dollars on Saturday nig...

A local product says there are “so many things” to remember about being an athlete at the Olympics. Michelle Kelly competed in skeleton in two editions of the Winter Games. She says a favo...

A local man is taking Facebook users down memory lane and rekindling old friendships at the same time. Mike Bortnick created Grande Prairie and Region Back in the Day where people post pictures of the...

Two people from Edmonton are dead after a collision involving a logging truck yesterday afternoon (February 22). Grande Prairie RCMP is investigating the collision that happened around 12:45 p.m. at t...

With one practice and a couple of pitching clinics already in the books, organizers say response has been good for a new Grande Prairie ladies' fastpitch league. “We’ve found there’s...

In May 2016, close to 80,000 people were evacuated from the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo due to forest fire and Darby Allen was the head of the operation. The Former Fort McMurray Fire Chief ...