Category Archives: Peace Region
Final Electoral Boundaries Commission Report recommends Grande Prairie constituency
The final report from the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission is recommending the bulk of one of the ridings in the Peace be contained within Grande Prairie. City limits would form most of the bou...
Oct 20, 2017
Local businesses recognized during Small Business Week
It's Small Business Week and the Grande Prairie and District Chamber of Commerce recognized a few local businesses at their Awards of Distinction reception Wednesday night. There were around a dozen b...
Oct 20, 2017
CAPP in Grande Prairie to speak on industry challenges
The state of the oil and natural gas industry will be discussed in Grande Prairie next week. A representative from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is speaking at a Grande Prairie and D...
Oct 19, 2017
Drysdale disappointed in legislative committee vote
The MLA for GP Wapiti says he is disappointed with a vote at a legislative standing committee. Wayne Drsydale had asked for an all-party review of the Property Rights Advocate Act, legislation that go...
Oct 19, 2017
Five Supervised Consumption Sites pave the way for one in Grande Prairie
Five Supervised Consumption Service facilities in Alberta have received federal approval. There are four opening in the city of Edmonton with one of them the first in-patient program in North America....
Oct 19, 2017
Local man remembered with benches
A pair of benches were unveiled at Avondale School in Grande Prairie in hopes to bring friends to lonely children. The idea of "buddy benches" for the playground came up in 2014 to create a more famil...
Oct 19, 2017
Bill Given re-elected as Mayor of Grande Prairie
Voter turnout in the city was 22 percent, up one percent from the 2013 election. Bill Given has been re-elected as Mayor of Grande Prairie in the 2017 Municipal Election. With 68 percent of the vote o...
Oct 18, 2017
Sexsmith votes on use of tax dollars for elevator restoration
Ratepayers in Sexsmith have voted against the use of taxpayers dollars to preserve the last grain elevator in that town. The Sexsmith Historical Society is hoping to restore the building, by renovatin...
Oct 18, 2017
Outgoing City Councillor to focus on family and business
Three Incumbent Councillors were elected back to city council while one isn’t going to be serving for the next four years. Kevin McLean was .22 percent behind Yadvinder Minhas when polls closed ...
Oct 18, 2017
Incumbents re-elected in the County of Grande Prairie
Voter turnout was down in the County. It was 21.4 percent this year, compared to 25 percent in 2013. There were some close races, but all the incumbent County of Grande Prairie Councillors that ran ag...
Oct 18, 2017