Category Archives: Peace Region

Northwestern Polytechnic is expanding its athletics programming.The Wolves will have a golf team starting in September, with a new women's hockey team to hit the ice for the 2026/2027 ACAC season.NWP ...

Grande Prairie RCMP are looking for a missing 50-year-old man.Chad Michael Simonson was last seen on March 30, 2025, in Grande Prairie and Mounties say there is concern for his wellbeing.Simonson is d...

Ten players from the Peace have been picked in the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft.Three were taken in the first round. Cruz Jim, a defenceman from Grande Prairie, went 12th overall to the Brandon Wheat King...

Two Peace region oilfield companies pleaded guilty to one charge each under Occupational Health and Safety laws in Slave Lake court on April 30.Tamarack Valley Energy and Peace Pipefitting's charges s...

Alberta Health Services says the Grande Prairie Public Health Clinic has temporarily moved to the QEII Ambulatory Care Centre until further notice. Immunizations are being done out of the auditorium s...

Grande Prairie Live Theatre's 2024-2025 season closes out with a staging of the Shakespeare classic Much Ado About Nothing.Director Agnes Pasko says the romantic comedy follows two couples in 16th-cen...

The Grande Prairie Arbor Day Society will mark the annual tree planting holiday with a ceremonial tree planting at Harry Balfour School Thursday, May 8.The Society chooses a school every Arbor Day to ...

May 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day.VE is short for Victory in Europe and is the day World War II officially ended in Europe.It continued into August of 1945 in the Pacific.Over a millio...

Elections Canada numbers show that voter turnout for the federal election was slightly above the national turnout in the Grande Prairie riding.Of the 83,264 people on the voters list, 59,000 came out ...

A High Prairie local is $200,000 richer from a $10 100X THE CASH scratcher. Dale Smith says he enjoys playing instant-win lottery games like LIGHTNING LOTTO, POKER LOTTO, and the classic Scratch &...