Round 2 of the North Peace Hockey League playoffs starts Tuesday night (Feb. 2).Grande Prairie will be in Manning and Spirit River in Dawson Creek as both semi-final series get underway.Both games will start at 8:30 p.m.Grande Prairie and Spirit River both host Game 2 Thursday night.

Pipestone Creek Campground is hosting the County of Grande Prairie's annual Winter Family Frostival this coming Saturday (Feb. 28). The festivities will take place from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. and is free to attend. Registration before participating is recommended so the County has enough supplies for everyone in attenda...

The Municipal District of Greenview is holding an information session Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, for contractors interested in joining Greenview's equipment registry.The session will allow attendees to discuss the 2026 Expressions of Interest program and learn how to properly fill out their EOI packages.The EOI packages m...

Peace Regional RCMP have recovered a stolen vehicle, thanks to the help of a Grimshaw community member.Mounties were notified about a vehicle theft on Feb. 12, while it was parked outside of a business near 99 Ave in Peace River.The next week, on Feb. 17, a community member noticed a suspicious vehicle in the back alle...

Alberta is taking another run at having a court strike down federal project review legislation. The Alberta Court of Appeal is hearing the province's second challenge to Ottawa's Impact Assessment Act in Calgary this week. The act sets out a process to review the environmental, economic, health and social effects of pr...

The union representing Alberta's nursing care staff says a new collective agreement with Covenant Health has been ratified. In a statement Monday, the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says members voted 89.2 per cent in favour of the deal. The union says the new pact will improve pay and working conditions. Highli...

The Alberta legislature is set to reconvene today, with the government's new budget to be tabled Thursday. Premier Danielle Smith announced Monday some of the first details of the budget expected to be filled with red-ink, saying the province would be boosting its spending on doctors by 22 per cent. The premier said he...

Alberta's minister for primary health care says a measles warning was issued for an entire county last week after 17 people tested positive for the virus. Adriana LaGrange says that health officials made the decision to issue a broad alert for Parkland County, west of Edmonton, because they couldn't pinpoint the detail...

A 22-year-old man who police say is related to the Tumbler Ridge shooter was recently arrested in Sylvan Lake, west of Red Deer, on a warrant for attempted murder.Alberta RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said Jacob Van Rootselaar had warrants out for his arrest from an attempted murder file that happened in Octobe...

At least two more recall petitions against Alberta politicians have failed. But that number may increase as 10 petitions are due to Elections Alberta today. The petitioner targeting Alberta's Indigenous Relations Minister Rajan Sawhney says the campaign gathered roughly 3,400 signatures, far fewer than the nearly 15,00...

TORONTO - A proposed mine in Ontario's Ring of Fire region has cleared another regulatory hurdle despite a First Nation's protest. The federal government has decided not to designate Wyloo's Eagle's Nest project for an impact assessment, which examines...

CALGARY - Alberta is taking another run at having a court strike down federal project review legislation. The Alberta Court of Appeal started hearing the province's second challenge to Ottawa's Impact Assessment Act in Calgary on Tuesday. The act set...

MONTRÉAL - The Parti Québécois' fourth consecutive byelection win shows Quebecers are ready for profound change, leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said Tuesday, even as he sought to calm worries over his promise to hold a sovereignty referendum by 2030 i...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man who has admitted to drowning two of his children in 2022 has concluded his testimony at his first-degree murder trial. Kamaljit Arora, 49, was questioned numerous times by the Crown about the search history on his cellphone tha...

CALGARY - Alberta RCMP say a relative of Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar has been arrested in an attempted murder investigation. They say in a statement that Jacob Jan Van Rootselaar was arrested on an outstanding warrant last Thursday in Sy...

OTTAWA - The federal government will spend $3.7 billion to build 6,000 more housing units for Canada's military, Defence Minister David McGuinty said on Tuesday. McGuinty made the announcement at CFB Uplands in Ottawa, but could not provide a timeline ...

KEY PENINSULA, Wash. (AP) - A suspect and four other people were dead Tuesday after a sheriff's deputy responded to reports that a man was stabbing people outside a home near Tacoma, Washington, law enforcement said. The Pierce County She...

PARIS (AP) - The director of the Louvre Museum who had been under fire since the stunning and embarrassing heist of the French Crown jewels in October has stepped down from the position, French President Emmanuel Macron 's office said Tuesday. ...

CAIRO (AP) - An attack by Sudanese paramilitary forces on a stronghold of a Darfur tribal leader left at least 28 people dead, a doctors group said Tuesday, the latest in a devastating war with no resolution in sight. The paramilitary Ra...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - More than a dozen senior European officials arrived in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine - a grim anniversary in a war that has killed tens of th...

PARIS (AP) - France's spat with the U.S. ambassador to Paris took another turn Tuesday with the French foreign minister saying the top U.S. diplomat in France must respond to a summons and won't have access to French government officials until he compl...

MOSCOW (AP) - An unidentified assailant detonated an explosive device next to a patrol vehicle in Moscow early Tuesday, killing himself and a police officer, and leaving two other officers injured, officials said. The attack happened minu...