The City of Grande Prairie will be offering free transit to Bear Creek Folk Festival attendees this weekend.From Aug. 14-16, festival wristband holders can get regular transit service at no cost, as well as late evening shuttle buses after the final performances each night."Bear Creek Folk Festival brings people t...

More thunderstorms could be in store for parts of the Peace Country Tuesday (August 11) afternoon and evening.Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the region, including south of the Peace River east to Kinuso, and ends below Grovedale and Little Smoky along Highway 43. The national weather offi...

Online registration is now open for the City of Grande Prairie's fall programs.During the autumn months, residents of all ages will be able to participate in a variety of activities like swimming lessons or learn-to-play sports, as well as programming for seniors as well.The City says registration can fill up quickly o...

The 2026 Minor Box Lacrosse Nationals get going today (Tuesday, August 11) in Halifax. The Alberta U17 men's team includes Grande Prairie's Coehn Bolin. Alberta opens play today (Tuesday, August 11) against Ontario. Alberta then plays Quebec on Wednesday and the First Nations Lacrosse Association on Thursday.More on Te...

A man leading a movement against artificial intelligence data centres in Alberta says provincial officials can expect to get an earful at an upcoming town hall. Ben Baril says he and other protesters will be at an Aug. 20 hearing in Sturgeon County to tell Premier Danielle Smith's government that true public consultati...

Alberta's government will review its Amber Alert system and the policies of a Calgary day home after the death of an 11-year-old boy with autism. The province says the review will assess the criteria that needs to be met for an alert to be issued and will include the perspectives of police, disability advocates and oth...

If your plans this weekend include travelling west into B.C.'s southern Interior region, you may wish to postpone your trip for a day or two, after Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) expanded an Orange Alert for air quality for a large section of southern B.C.The updated warning now includes the Kootenays, ...

Canada's Governor General will visit Medicine Hat next week to cheer on athletes competing at the 2026 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games.Louise Arbour will be in the city from Aug. 10 to 13 for the event, marking her first visit to Medicine Hat and the first time a governor general has attended the Special Olympics ...

Technicians who run diagnostic tests in Alberta's health system are wondering if they have enough people to accommodate changes to the program. Premier Danielle Smith's government now allows patients to book their own diagnostic tests without needing a doctor's referral. But they have to pay for the M-R-I, C-T scan or ...

Alberta's government is facing workplace safety related charges in the death of a firefighter who was struck by a tree about two years ago while tackling the massive wildfire in Jasper National Park. Alberta Occupational Health and Safety says the wildland firefighter was employed by the minister of forestry and parks ...

A story published by The Canadian Press on Aug. 6, incorrectly reported that Nova Scotia was planning to ban children under 14 from riding electric scooters and bikes in the fall. The story was based on incomplete information provided by the provincial...

An Ontario jeweller accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money for a violent criminal network allegedly run by former Olympian Ryan Wedding will not fight his extradition to the United States. Rolan Sokolovski's lawyer confirme...

OTTAWA - Canada could lose 102,000 jobs if the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade breaks down, a new report warns. The report, prepared for the Canadian American Business Council by Oxford Economics, studied the potential economic consequences of CU...

Gordon Mellish says he has saved at least 10 people using CPR after being trained in the life-saving technique, but giving mouth-to-mouth to an otter -pup was a completely different animal. Mellish, a resident of the British Columbia coastal community ...

TORONTO - Ontario's fire crews are making progress fighting wildfires, the minister of natural resources said Tuesday, with dozens extinguished in the last two weeks and far fewer burning out of control than earlier in the busy season. More than 80 fir...

OTTAWA - Nearly 30,000 Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country. The online petition, which is set to be presented in the House of Commons in the fall, says Pete...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia has released an American military veteran who spent more than four years in prison on disputed charges under abusive conditions and was said to be gravely ill and at risk of dying, a group advocating for him said Tuesday. ...

Yemeni authorities said six people were killed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, while U.S. forces fired on a ship they said was trying to break a blockade of Iran's ports. Here's a look at the l...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead in a remote part of the country's conflict-battered north, authorities said Tuesday. The clash, which occurred on Monday in the...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict that left about half a millio...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - At least 14 artisanal miners died and eight were injured when the walls of a mine in South Africa caved in on them, police said Tuesday. North West provincial police commissioner Lt. Gen. Arthur Adams said a search was...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - At least 2,000 people have died in Congo's Ebola outbreak, the fastest-growing on record, according to the latest data, as health authorities struggle to get help to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads and work stoppa...