The Grande Prairie & District Chamber of Commerce wants to tell people in the Peace about building up resiliency for businesses in times of emergencies.The chamber is working with the Alberta Chambers of Commerce and the Red Cross.One thing being offered is the Red Cross Ready Program. This is meant to get business...

The County of Grande Prairie provided its final update on the Deer Ridge Estates wildfire. As of 3:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, May 6), the fire is classified as under control. As a result, GPREP has been deactivated, and fire crews from Northern Sunrise County and the MD of Smoky River have been sent home. Residents in the...

Peace Regional RCMP are asking for the public's help with locating a 61-year-old man. Darin Walter Overholt was last seen in the Peace River area on April 29, around 11 p.m. on 100 Avenue in Peace River. Another possible sighting was reported on May 3 at 11:30 a.m., around 100 Street. He is described as: Light complexi...

Peace Regional RCMP is reminding residents to monitor their children when using their old phones, as 911 services still work. Mounties say they've recently responded to over 20 calls to 911 where dispatchers have reported "the sounds of very young children playing in the background and a child saying they wanted t...

The Alberta RCMP are sharing tips to help residents prevent theft of, and from, their vehicles this summer. In 2024, police recorded 8,272 auto thefts in Alberta RCMP jurisdiction, plus 5,998 thefts from vehicles. Of this total, 643 auto thefts and 502 thefts from vehicles occurred in May alone. RCMP report that trucks...

The Alberta RCMP has introduced new community response teams in an effort to tackle drug crimes.To address the concerns of fentanyl, the RCMP has implemented quick response crime reduction teams designed to take on a variety of issues. The community response teams focus on outreach to improve safety, reduce victimizati...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is urging her Ontario counterpart Doug Ford to mind his own business when it comes to talk of separating from Canada. Smith announced this week that she doesn't want Alberta to leave Canada but, if enough residents sign a petition asking for a referendum on it, she'll make sure...

Educators in Alberta could be in a position to potentially strike in the weeks ahead.The Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) says voter turnout for a new proposed deal with the province and school boards reached a new record, with nearly 36,000 members casting ballots.Approximately 62 per cent of teachers voted to reje...

The Republican Party of Alberta and The Independence Party of Alberta (TIP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in an effort to advance and unify an independence movement in Alberta. Representatives of the Republican Party of Alberta say the MOU consolidates political momentum behind their party as the chan...

The chief of staff to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a business class flight he charged to taxpayers, citing a health condition that increases his risk of blood clots.The flight in question was a return flight he took from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Calgary earlier this year when he accompanied Smith to mee...

British Columbia's chief coroner says he is reopening the investigation into the death of an Indigenous woman the day after her family went public with concerns about how her case was handled. Dr. Jatinder Baidwan says he's directing a coroner's inquest to publicly review the circumstances that led to the death of Taty...

Family members and friends of those killed in a vehicle attack at a Vancouver festival are coming forward to tell the stories of their loved ones. A 30-year-old man faces second-degree murder charges over the attack that killed 11 people at the Lapu Lapu Day festival. Here is what we know about some of the victims: Mar...

VANCOUVER - Politicians and business leaders in British Columbia say talk of separation in Alberta is an opening for better co-operation between Ottawa and Western provinces, but dividing the country is a step too far. The reactions come after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said this week that she would put the issue t...

QUÉBEC - The Quebec government has tabled legislation that would ensure a minimum 150-metre distance between supervised injection sites and schools and daycares. Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant says the bill would grant his department new powers to approve or refuse a new site allowing the supervised con...

VANCOUVER - The chair of the group that organized a festival in Vancouver where 11 people were killed says talks are underway to set up a permanent memorial near the site of the tragedy. RJ Aquino with Filipino BC says he has seen strangers leave as friends after bonding over grief at the memorial site along the fence ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump met Tuesday in Washington for their first face-to-face discussion of U.S.-Canada relations and Trump's ongoing trade war. Here are some highlights from the meeting, which Carney described as both "wide-ranging" and "constructive." C...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval has advanced to the fall election in a three-way nonpartisan primary to lead Ohio's third-largest city. The top two vote-getters in the contest will go on to compete in November's general election. Cory Bowman, Vice President JD Vance's half brother, is an evangelica...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Federal officials filed charges Tuesday against five people in connection to a boat carrying migrants that capsized a day earlier off San Diego's Pacific coast, killing three people, including a 14-year-old boy from India. The boy's 10-year-old sister is still missing at sea and is presumed dead, the U...

India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations early Wednesday, killing at a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants. Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbo...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have died, leaving only 21 believed to be still living. "As of today, it's 21, three have died," Trump said of the hostages being held by Hamas, noting until recently it had been 24 people believed to be living. He...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli plan to seize the Gaza Strip and expand the military operation has alarmed many in the region. Palestinians are exhausted and hopeless, pummeled by 19 months of heavy bombing. Families of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza are terrified that the possibility of a ceasef...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations early Wednesday, killing at a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants. The strikes came amid soari...