Snakes, sloths and various other creatures are part of the Wildlife Festival taking place this weekend at Evergreen Park.The festival's Logan MacDonald says they bring animals people don't usually get to see to places like Grande Prairie "to show them off.""Our primary goal is to be able to be like 'Hey,...

Environment Canada has issued an air quality advisory for the Grande Prairie-Beaverlodge-Valleyview, and the Peace River-Fairview-High Prairie-Manning forecast areas.Wildfire smoke blowing in is causing poor air quality and reduced visibility. The weather office says poor air quality is expected to last all weekend and...

The Grande Prairie Storm have signed a local goalie prospect. 2006-born Keagin Kelln has joined the Storm, after playing last year with the local U18 AAA team. General Manager Mark Bomersback says Kelln showed out at main camp and "earned it!"He added, "Keagin is a very good, young goaltender that's goin...

The Rotary Clubs of Grande Prairie are seeking volunteers for their annual food drive.Teams of four to six people are being sought to help cover the City and County by going door to door collecting nonperishable food, unopened hygiene products, and baby items.Mailers seeking volunteers for the drive should arrive in Gr...

RCMP are now confirming that their multiple heavy presences in north Red Deer this week were related to the search for Elijah Blake Strawberry.Strawberry is wanted in connection to the killing of Airdrie resident Colin Hough in Rocky View County on Aug. 6, 2024.RCMP made one arrest shortly after that shooting occurred,...

Albertan drivers are enjoying cheaper gas prices heading into fall.The average gasoline price in Alberta was 143.6 cents per litre on Friday, according to price tracking website GasBuddy.com.That's down 15.6 cents from the same time August.It was a similar picture for several of Alberta's mid-sized cities, including Le...

Despite an overall increase in the number of people working, Alberta's unemployment rate was up last month.In Statistics Canada's latest Labour Force Survey, it says the unemployment rate in the province was 7.7 per cent in August, and increase of 0.6 per cent from July.There was an increase in employment of nearly 13,...

An international credit rating agency says Canada's canola industry could take a $1-billion hit in the wake of new Chinese trade actions.Morningstar DBRS says China's plan to launch an anti-dumping investigation into canola seed imports from Canada could result in China levying tariffs on the crop.The agency says such ...

The Government of Alberta is encouraging women to get an education in fields that generally underrepresent women. It was announced on September 4, 2024, that there will be three post-secondary academic scholarships given to women this upcoming school year. Two of those have already been introduced, The Women in Science...

The rates that Albertans pay for electricity and natural gas have reportedly gone down in recent months.The Alberta Utilities Commission reports that, between August 2023 and August 2024, the average monthly price for default electricity rates in the province decreased from 32.27 cents per kilowatt hour to 13.19.That a...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says Grand Chief Cathy Merrick of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has died. Merrick, the first woman elected to the role, collapsed outside the Winnipeg Law Courts building and was rushed to hospital. She had been talking to reporters about two court cases when she said she felt di...

OTTAWA - The former governor of the Bank of Canada who has long been touted as a possible Liberal candidate or successor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will give the party some advice on the economy at the Liberal caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. next week. Mark Carney will address Liberal MPs about the economy and a ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Official Opposition BC United party now says it will run some candidates in the Oct. 19 election, despite suspending its campaign last week to support the B.C. Conservative Party instead. A letter to party members says despite last week's suspension "we intend on running a select numb...

VANCOUVER - Premier David Eby says mental health care in the province for those committed against their will needs to be "dignified and humane" to be effective, as his government works on a strategy about involuntary care. Eby, speaking after a deadly random stranger attack in downtown Vancouver this week, sa...

OTTAWA - Canada Post is proposing an increase to regulated postage rates next year, bringing the price of most stamps up by 25 cents to $1.24. The organization says it's kept letter mail rate increases to a minimum over the past decade and the one-time increase would help align stamp prices with the rising cost of prov...

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say the founders of a company connected to Canada received US$760,000 in fees and commissions as part of an alleged Russian ploy to dupe right-wing influencers into sowing division among Americans. An indictment filed Wednesday charged two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media ou...

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also w...

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also w...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Federal prisoner Fotios "Freddy" Geas was sentenced in federal court in northern West Virginia after pleading guilty to v...

WINDER, Ga. (AP) - The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people will stay in detention as his lawyer declined to seek bail at a Friday morning court hearing. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. WINDER, Ga. (AP) - The 14-year-old accused of fatally ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya killed 17 students and seriously burned 13 others, police said Friday. There are fears that the death toll may rise, police said. The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county was being investigated, police spokesperson Res...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Patrick Mahomes thought for a moment that the Chiefs were headed to overtime. So did Ravens counterpart Lamar Jackson, who had found Isaiah Likely in the back of the end zone with no time left for a touchdown that appeared to tie the game. In the end, the NFL's season opener Thursday night was d...