The Northern Spirt Light Show is open every night from now until Christmas Eve. After being closed on Christmas Day, it will be open again on Boxing Day through New Year's Eve. Hours will be 6 to 10 p.m. Horse-drawn wagon rides cost $5 per person with kids 10 and under seeing the show for free. The cost is $15 per vehi...

goThe City of Grande Prairie is accepting applications to fund local arts and culture projects. The City of Grande Prairie Arts and Culture Funding allocates $115,000 per year to individuals, festivals, and arts & culture organizations to support and encourage the development of local artists. The Festival, Major P...

Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton is playing host to the FIS Snowboard Big Air World Cup on Friday, December 8, and Saturday, December 9. Snowboarders from around the world, have come to compete and ride the giant scaffolding jump, with the qualifier currently underway. Three-time Olympic Medalist Mark McMorris will be ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta is continuing its push as a hot spot for film and television production. On December 7, 2023, the province announced that the Alberta Made Screen Industries Program will support 155 locally made film and television projects with $2.8 million in mentorship and post-production grants. Since Janua...

A local Grande Prairie Artist will be showcasing and discussing her latest exhibit, Digital Courtship at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. Kenzie Housego, the GPRC (now NWP) fine arts grad, and daughter of well-known Peace region artist Ken Housego, has had the oppournitny to showcase her works both across Canada and ...

TORONTO - When Dan Shulman was a first-year mathematics student at the University of Western Ontario, the self-described 'sports nut' thought he might give sports writing a try. "I wanted to write sports for the Western Gazette, which was a great campus newspaper," Shulman recalled. "I got there and ther...

Speaker Nathan Cooper will host the annual Legislature Light Up ceremony on Violet King Henry Plaza on Thursday, December 7, at 5 p.m. "I invite all Albertans in the capital region to help us kick off the holiday season with the Light Up ceremony and the Legislative Assembly Visitor Centre's festive open house on ...

Captain Christine Sinclair calls time on her international career on Tuesday with a final game against Australia at B.C. Place Stadium. Some facts about the 40-year-old from Burnaby, B.C.: -- The first concert she attended was the Spice Girls. -- Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" always finds its way onto...

Some young musicians from Grande Prairie have won an armful of awards from Conservatory Canada. Emily Ding and Qi Fang Liu (Lulu to her friends) have both received a National Medal for Excellence Award in the Piano Grade 9 exam. This is for getting the highest marks in the country. Sean Shi finished in first place nati...

Matthew Perry's iconic performance on "Friends" may forever link him with New York City, but the actor behind Chandler Bing described himself as half Canadian and had deep ties to some of the biggest names in Canadian politics. The 54-year-old actor was found dead in his Los Angeles home Saturday. Perry detai...

Zack Kassian announced his retirement Thursday following a 12-year career in the National Hockey League. The 32-year-old forward played 661 regular-season games for the Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers and Arizona Coyotes, amassing 203 points (92 goals, 111 assists) and 913 penalty minutes. "To p...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Taylor Swift couldn't just shake off another chance to watch Travis Kelce on the football field. The 12-time Grammy Award winner arrived at MetLife Stadium about 40 minutes before kickoff Sunday night to watch Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs defeat the New York Jets 23-20. SNY posted video...

NEW YORK (AP) - Password-sharing crackdowns are becoming more and more common in the streaming world today. And Disney Plus is following suit. In an email sent to the users in Canada earlier this week, Disney announced restrictions on Canadian subscribers' "ability to share your account or login credentials outsid...

HAMILTON - Grammy Award-winning band Green Day will headline the halftime show for the 2023 Grey Cup game. The CFL made the announcement Saturday night during halftime of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats-Calgary Stampeders game at Tim Hortons Field. The Grey Cup game will be held Nov. 19 in Hamilton. "You better be ready b...

STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds. Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany...

A local theatre group, Generations Reader's Theatre Grande Prairie, has finally finished its Telus STORYHIVE production. The project, titled "A Grande Education" was named after Mary Nutting's archival book, "A Grande Education: One Hundred Schools in the County of Grande Prairie 1910-1960", which w...

Grande Prairie's very own made a historic milestone at the Canadian Country Music Awards over the weekend. Tenille Townes is now the record holder for the most consecutive wins for the CCMA"s Female Vocalist of the Year; at five! Not only did Townes pick up her fifth Female Vocalist of the Year CCMA, but two more ...

TORONTO - Cineplex says last month brought the company's third highest August box office revenues of all time as "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" continued to be popular among moviegoers. The company says it brought in $68 million in box office revenues in August. "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge sentenced "That '70s Show" show star Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in prison Thursday for raping two women, giving them some relief after they spoke in court about the decades of damage he inflicted. "When you raped me, you stole from me," said one woman who Masterso...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's another landmark year for breakout country superstar Lainey Wilson, who tops the CMA Awards nominations for the second year in a row. Wilson was a first-time nominee in 2022, which means she's made history in 2023 - becoming the first and only artist to top the nominations list in her first two ...

OTTAWA - Decorated ice dance duo Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and mixed martial arts star Georges St-Pierre are among the 2023 inductees into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Randy Ferbey's curling team, wheelchair basketball player Danielle Peers and softball player Phyllis Bomberry will also be inducted as athletes, with...

DENVER (AP) - A fancy-looking French angelfish that was found one day with a funny float has its buoyancy back after taking some time out of its tropical trappings to get a CT scan at the Denver Zoo. A zoo worker recently noticed the blue and yellow fish was swimming with a tilt, prompting a visit last week to the faci...

Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself."Wastin' away again in Margaritaville," went the chorus to his most famous song, which became an international singalong. But Buffett was actually an astute, ambitious, aggressive businessman.A statement posted to...

A 911 call about a car driving with a cow inside it in one of northeast Nebraska's biggest cities was no bull. Norfolk Police Capt. Chad Reiman said it didn't take long for officers to track down the modified Ford Crown Victoria sedan with a bull riding shotgun on the main highway entering the city of roughly 24,000 We...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Charles Martinet, the original voice of Mario in Nintendo games since the 1990s, is stepping down. Nintendo of America confirmed Monday that Martinet will now serve in the role of "Mario Ambassador," traveling around the world to promote the beloved plumber, signing autographs and perfor...

A Canadian high school teacher is the winner of the latest season of the History Channel's survival reality show "Alone." Alan Tenta, from Columbia Valley, B.C., outlasted nine other competitors in the northern Saskatchewan wilderness to win the US$500,000 prize. Tenta says in a news release that it was an &q...

After selling out two weeks shy of the festival start date, the Bear Creek Folk Festival went off without a hitch despite the less-than-ideal weather to start. Headliners brought in a massive crowd to fill Muskoseepi Park. BCFF Producer Sarah Card says there were around 7,500 people who came through the gates every day...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards have a new date - one that places them squarely within Hollywood's awards season, for a change. Fox announced Thursday that the Emmys will air Jan. 15 from the Peacock Theater at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. The show will air on the Martin Luther King, Jr., hol...