
Peace Region News

Court
Updates on two robbery cases
Charges withdrawn against an accused in armed robbery case Alberta Justice says charges against one of the three people charged in a 2025 armed robbery in Grande Prairie have been withdrawn. Saddarta Stanyer had been facing two robbery charges, along with one each of possession of a weapon dangerous to the public and p...
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Severe thunderstorm
Thunderstorm watch in effect south of GP
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for areas south of Grande Prairie. The watch includes both Grande Cache and Fox Creek, so anyone travelling south today should remain on alert. Environment Canada expects stormy conditions to last until this evening, with strong winds, heavy rain and possible hail.To stay up to ...
Aug 15, 2026
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Data Centres
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation says it has "won their first legal battle" over the Wonder Valley data centre proposal
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation officials say on social media that they have won what they call "their first legal battle with O'Leary Digital Limited." This is related to the Wonder Valley AI data centre proposal. The post says this means a judicial challenge from the First Nation regarding a review of a water lic...
Aug 15, 2026
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City of Grande Prairie
City contractors completing tree replacement work overnight Aug. 15
City contractors will be completing tree replacement work overnight Saturday, Aug. 15Crews will be working along 100 Avenue between 98 Street and 100 Street from 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 16.The work is part of final warranty activities associated with the downtown rehabilitation of 100 Avenue.Traffic is expe...
Aug 14, 2026
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Alberta

Provincial government
Residents feedback wanted on Berland Sub-Region use
The provincial government is looking for public feedback from all Albertans on the Berland sub-regional plan.Located southest of Grande Prairie, the area includes 19,529 square kilometres of protected land and borders Jasper National Park; it's used for resource development, agriculture, recreation, tourism, forestry a...
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to be expected, says chief electoral officer
Elections Alberta addresses misinformation about voter registration
Elections Alberta is calling out what it describes as a "significant volume of social media misinformation" related to vote registration and its own Voterlink tool."Elections Alberta is monitoring several streams of misinformation that have been increasing as we get closer to the referendum on October 19...
Aug 14, 2026
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Provincial Politics
Alberta delaying new restrictions on flags in schools, national anthem mandate
Alberta is delaying until later this year the implementation of new rules restricting which flags can be flown in schools. The province says it's also delaying a new mandate for schools to play the national anthem once a week. The new rules were expected to come in effect on Sept. 1 in time for the school year. They st...
Aug 14, 2026
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Provincial government
Alberta government invests in Alberta Newsprint Company's Whitecourt expansion
The Government of Alberta is contributing $1.5 million to the $50 million expansion of Whitecourt Newsprint Company Ltd., which operates as Alberta Newsprint Company.The funding will come from the Investment and Growth Fund, which aims to attract private investments to create jobs, strengthen rural communities and grow...
Aug 13, 2026
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Environment
Alberta to do long-term water security study to support population, industry growth
Alberta's government says it's looking to do a study on the long-term security of the province's water supply. Environment Minister Grant Hunter says Alberta's population, industry and farming sector are all growing and reliable access to water is needed to sustain the growth. He says the study will look 100 years ahea...
Aug 13, 2026
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Funnel clouds
Special weather statement expanded to include Grande Prairie
UPDATE: The earlier reported funnel cloud weather statement has now expanded west to the B.C. border, and is now in effect for the City of Grande Prairie and surrounding areas. At this time, EC is still reporting conditions to improve by early this evening. Residents travelling south today should remain on alert for fu...
Aug 13, 2026
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Canada
Here's a list of July inflation rates for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 3.0 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previo...
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Here's a list of July inflation rates for Canadian provinces
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 3.0 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 4.2 per cent (3.8) - Prince Edward Island: 4.0 per cent (3.8) - N...
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In the news today: LeBlanc meets U.S. envoy, gas price relief, Hayden Panettiere dead
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... LeBlanc meets with U.S. trade representative as tariff deadline looms Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc spent the weekend in Washington to work with Donal...
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Carney to make announcement in St. John's with Quebec, N.L. premiers
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to make an announcement about energy security after reports that Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have reached a deal regarding Churchill Falls. Carney's public itinerary says he will be joined by Newfound...
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Gas price rebound drove inflation up to 3% in July: StatCan
OTTAWA - July's rebound in gas prices pushed the annual rate of inflation up to three per cent last month even as there were signs cost pressures were easing at the grocery store, Statistics Canada said Monday. The acceleration in the consumer price in...
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Inside the Montreal lab working to prepare Canada against future pandemics
MONTREAL - In a biomedicine laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal, animal protein grows in a bubbling orange solution as researchers in white lab coats take samples with large syringes. Neatly-labelled glass bottles filled with clear liquid line the she...
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World News

Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump's push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defame...
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Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclearize Iran. Trump said in a social medi...
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Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dead at 83
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83. He died at...
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Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drone...
Aug 16, 2026
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Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Russia's Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 headed toward...
Aug 16, 2026
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A bus crash in Hungary kills 12 people, injures at least 10 others
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others, police said. The bus, which was carrying a group of Polish tou...
Aug 16, 2026
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