A Grande Prairie child had a visit from local RCMP and City Police last Friday to help grant his wish.Six-year-old Rowan "is just like any other boy his age, as he likes to roughhouse with his older brother, play games and ride his bike," but has been battling leukemia since December of 2022.Recently, he rang...

The Municipal District of Peace is informing residents of a mistake in the 2026 tax notice.An incorrect penalty amount for payments made after July 1, 2026, would affect accounts with outstanding taxes from 2025 and any due after September 30 of this year.The MD is advising residents to refer to Bylaw no. 10/2025 for t...

Two Grande Prairie organizations that help victims of sexual assault are included in a funding announcement from the Alberta government. The province says $17 million will be split among 15 sexual assault centres, including PACE in Grande Prairie, along with the Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services. The gover...

The City of Grande Prairie is set to continue road rehabilitation work along 100 Avenue Thursday, Aug. 13.City crews will be working between Range Road 70 East and 108 Street. They will do asphalt milling, paving overlay, pavement repairs, and more.While the work is ongoing, traffic will remain open for the most part b...

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...

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...

Residents travelling south today should remain on alert for funnel clouds.A special weather statement is in effect for most of central Alberta and includes Valleyview, Fox Creek and High Prairie.Environment Canada warns residents that when funnel clouds develop, there is a greater chance of a landspout tornado forming....

Alberta RCMP is sharing safety tips for new drivers in the province, as, according to Transport Canada, young and new drivers are more likely to be involved in fatal and injury collisions.Police say this is due to the drivers' age and inexperience."Everyone has a duty to look out for each other on the roads, and t...

Alberta's Lieutenant Governor is praising Medicine Hat's community spirit and the athletes competing at the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games.The Honourable Salma Lakhani is making her second visit to Medicine Hat. She previously visited the city for the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards about three years a...

Alberta RCMP shared this week that its members will make a shift to navy blue uniform shirts. They note this is part of an effort to modernize the RCMP uniform across the nation. The change will occur starting Aug. 15. "The RCMP understands that seeing a new uniform colour may cause confusion. The RCMP also unders...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver say a Mexican national has been charged with second-degree murder in a cold case dating back three decades. Vancouver police say 68-year-old Juan Manuel Rueda Salud was escorted by officers from Mexico to Vancouver on We...

A post on X featuring a video compilation of wildfires has received hundreds of thousands of views. The post claims "technocratic elites" are manipulating the weather and creating wildfires across the West. Experts consulted by The Canadian Press say t...

Premier David Eby has said British Columbia's wildfire season turned "brutal," with a ferocious blaze that led to the death of an 80-year-old woman and forced some 20,000 people out of their homes in the south Okanagan last weekend. Here are key facts ...

ABBOTSFORD BRITISH COLUMBIA - A parole board says sex offender Randall Hopley must remain under a supervision order for another year, although his ankle bracelet has been removed and his curfew extended by an hour. Hopley, who's 60 years old, has been...

GUELPH - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday he believes his government will ultimately be successful in its push to expand Toronto's island airport to allow jets to land, but he is not indicating how he'll achieve that. The land that Billy Bishop ...

OTTAWA - Conservative and Bloc Québécois members of the House of Commons public safety and national security committee are calling for an emergency meeting to discuss spying allegations involving a former Canadian NATO intern in Belgium. Frank Caputo, ...

ROME (AP) - An explosion sparked by a fire at an ammunition factory sent up a towering plume of smoke Thursday in the town of Colleferro near Rome but no injuries were reported, local officials said. The blast took place at a plant owned...

LONDON (AP) - The U.K. recorded its hottest day of the year Thursday during an excessively dry stretch that saw multiple fires break out as an intense stretch of hot weather continued to grip Europe. The Met Office said the temperature of...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Separatists in northern Mali have released 82 soldiers, including some taken captive during a nationwide attack on government forces in April, the Malian military and a rebel spokesperson said Thursday. A statement fro...

Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other Thursday as U.S. states scheduled three lethal injection executions in one day. The Tennessee man was executed for killing a maid at a motel in 1985 and the Oklah...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death was recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province, the head of Africa's CDC said Thursday. The man died in Buta, the capital of Bas-Uele,...

WARSAW (AP) - A Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister said Thursday, adding it was the first time that "someone on the order of Russia" sought to att...