Category Archives: Peace Region
Forestry Open House tonight
Three local forestry companies will talk about their future plans at an open house tonight. Weyerhaeuser's Traci Carter says this is the public's chance to ask questions. "We have Weyerhaeuser, Canfor...
Oct 20, 2017
Single vehicle collision in Clairmont
Grande Prairie RCMP says one man has non-life threatening injuries after a single vehicle crash Thursday afternoon in Clairmont. Witnesses and callers tell us it happened along Highway 2 between the H...
Oct 20, 2017
UPDATE: Reports say two vehicles have been shot at along Highway 40
Posts to social media say two trucks have been shot at in the last two days along Highway 40. The most recent was reported on Facebook Thursday. A truck has damage on the driver's side above the rear ...
Oct 20, 2017
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