Category Archives: Peace Region

GPPSD ratifies four-year-agreement with Employees Association
The Grande Prairie Public School Division has announced the ratification of a new four-year deal with the GPPSD Employee's Association.The agreement retroactively goes into effect September 1 2024 thr...
Feb 04, 2025

Grande Prairie is the coldest place in the world!
As of Tuesday February 4, at 9:00 a.m., the City of Grande Prairie is the most frigid place on Earth! According to WX-now.com, the site says anything below -39 degrees Celsius is the temperature to be...
Feb 04, 2025

Extreme weather postpones County snow removal operations
The County of Grande Prairie says the planned snow removal operations in Whispering Ridge and Westlake village neighborhoods for Tuesday, February 4 have been disrupted.Due to extreme weather conditio...
Feb 03, 2025

Majority of Alberta & BC Peace under extreme cold warning
That extreme cold warning in effect for a majority of Alberta including the Peace Region, has now also spread its way to the B.C. Peace. Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Tumbler Ridge and Dawson Creek are now...
Feb 03, 2025

Firearm complaint leads Peace Regional RCMP to arrest wanted individual
Peace Regional RCMP arrested one individual and seized an illegal weapon on Friday, January 31, after a report from the community. At 10 a.m., Peace Regional RCMP got a firearm complaint in the Cadott...
Feb 03, 2025

Snow clearing in County neighbourhoods Monday
Snow removal operations are taking place in the County of Grande Prairie today in the neighbourhoods of Whispering Ridge and Westlake. No street parking is permitted between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. du...
Feb 03, 2025

Centre for Creative Arts hosting opening reception for Community Over Empire art exhibit as part of Black History Month
An opening reception is being held this week at the Centre for Creative Arts as part of Black History Month festivities in Grande Prairie.Community Over Empire: The Line That Divide explores how artis...
Feb 03, 2025

County opens nominations for annual It Takes a Volunteer campaign
The County of Grande Prairie has opened nominations for its annual It Takes a Volunteer campaign.Now in its third year, the program shines a light on individuals, groups, and organizations that make a...
Feb 03, 2025

Wellspring Alberta hopes to launch in-person cancer support program in Grande Prairie this fall
A charity that offers support to people living with cancer hopes to expand its in-person programs to Grande Prairie after a recent funding announcement from the provincial government. The province say...
Feb 02, 2025

Entire Peace region under extreme cold warning
Enviroment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for all of northern Alberta.Temperatures of down to minus 40 with the windchill are forecasted overnight and into Sunday morning (February 2).Envir...
Feb 01, 2025