A Beaverlodge resident has released her second Christmas-themed book.Kirsten Clark's The Secret Ingredient follows the story of a pastry chef and the owner of his shop as they face the hardships of a holiday rush and a troubling medical diagnosis.The Christian-Fiction Christmas Romance is a sequel to Clark's 2024 relea...

Grande Prairie RCMP are responding to multiple motor vehicle collisions across the city and rural areas due to poor road conditions.Mounties say freezing rain and heavy snowfall have produced dangerous conditions and are asking the public to avoid all unnecessary travel.Anyone who must drive is asked to be cautious and...

Inclusion Grande Prairie is pushing to see some policies about recreation for people with intellectual disabilities from City Hall Council asked administration to prepare a report to include what is available, what isn't, and possible cost implications and bring it back to a committee meeting.President Keith Moore says...

County of Grande Prairie Council has approved the interim 2026 budget.A release from the county says that council aims to expand infrastructure to support growth and promote long-term sustainability while investing in policing and recreation.If passed, the budget will include a 2.9 per cent municipal tax rate increase,...

Alberta's early-learning and child-care fees will remain at $15-a-day through to 2027 as it works with Ottawa to firm up a more permanent deal.The two jointly announced an extension on the current deal, with the federal government providing Alberta more than $1.17-billion dollars in funding.It will extend both the earl...

Alberta RCMP removed 50 impaired drivers from the roads on Saturday, Dec. 6 as part of their role in National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day.Of the 50 drivers, 28 received Immediate Roadside Sanctions FAILS, 13 received WARNS, and six novice or commercial drivers were removed for IRS ZEROES."These statistics are...

Alberta's teachers are accusing the province of bad faith bargaining over the recent strike.Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers' Association, says they have filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board against the government's bargaining agent.Schilling says during the labour standoff, the go...

Elections Alberta is getting $6.7 million in extra funding to handle the sudden outburst of recall petitions against legislature members.A legislature committee unanimously granted the funding at a meeting today.Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure requested the extra money because his office is managing 21 active re...

Two advocacy groups fighting the Alberta government on transgender laws say they are switching tactics to continue their battle in court.The renewed challenge from the groups Egale and Skipping Stone comes one day after Premier Danielle Smith's government used the Charter's notwithstanding clause.The clause allows gove...

Alberta MLAs Jennifer Johnson and Shane Getson are planning to build on a year of engagement with U.S. state legislators at the Council of State Governments National Conference in Chicago. That's according to Alberta government officials who say the MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka Jennifer Johnson and MLA for Lac Ste. Anne-Park...

ABBOTSFORD - The B.C. government says Highway 1 out of Abbotsford has been reopened in both directions after being closed due to flooding. The Transportation Ministry says that one eastbound lane opened this morning and both westbound laneson the high...

OneBC, the party formed after a split with the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been "removed" by the party's board of directors. The party's only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says ...

TORONTO - The rabbi of a Toronto synagogue says Hanukkah celebrations would continue as planned in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia on Sunday. Levi Gansburg, the rabbi at Chabad on Bayview, says his synagogue w...

ABBOTSFORD - Rainfall warnings have gone up across British Columbia's flood-drenched Fraser Valley as another wave of soaking weather hits the region. Environment Canada says the valley, including Abbotsford, which was inundated by cross-border floodin...

QUÉBEC - The Quebec government is warning that a draft energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador could be at risk if it's not settled before next year's provincial election. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Economy Minister Christine Fr...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says it has euthanized one of its lions after the animal spent several months undergoing veterinary care for a gastrointestinal symptoms. In a Friday social media post the zoo says Fintan, a 13-year-old "majestic male white l...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, direct from a dentist appointment. The 63-year-old veter...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police in Rhode Island said early Sunday that they had a suspect in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during final exams, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded. ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - As Chileans vote on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections is likely to become the country's next leade...

BERLIN (AP) - U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin Sunday morning for another round of talks intended to secure a deal to end the war in Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jar...

SYDNEY (AP) - Two gunmen attacked a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspec...