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A funeral service for long-time Grande Prairie city councillor Helen Rice will be held next Wednesday, November 24, at 3 p.m. in the city's downtown arena. Rice, who was a mainstay on city council for...
Nov 17, 2021
Grande Prairie City Council has approved moving ahead with an Expression of Interest (EOI) process, to explore the possible sale of a parcel of land along Resources Road. The land is located between t...
Aug 30, 2020
An update on the financial impact of COVID-19 on the Town of Whitecourt' pocketbook was presented to council this week, and it forecasts a net financial deficit of $405,165 to the end of 2020.Accordin...
Jul 25, 2020
The Eastlink Centre has closed a number of its aquatic amenities due to poor air quality.Until further notice, the slides, splash features, splash park, lazy river and Flowrider will be closed. In a r...
May 31, 2019 Eastlink Centre Pool. Photo/ EastlinkCentreGP/ Facebook
The City is hosting free Opioid crisis education sessions put on by the Grande Prairie Community Opioid Response Task Force. The sessions, planned for held on May 29 and June 10, are meant to educate ...
May 23, 2019
City Council approved a request from the school districts to designate a new school site in the future Kensington area at a Council meeting Tuesday evening."Its great that we were able to accomplish t...
May 22, 2019 Kensington Outline Plan Development Concept. Photo/ City of Grande Prairie
City Council has approved changes to public transit aimed at improving transit efficiency and ridership demands. Smaller busses will be implemented for select evening and weekend service and some rout...
May 22, 2019 Photo/ Curtis Galbraith
The City is in the process of creating an Area Redevelopment Plan for the Avondale neighbourhood. The plan assesses the land containing the Composite High School, Peace Wapiti Academy, the Leisure Cen...
May 16, 2019 The redevelopment plan will engage will all landowners (pictured) along with the Avondale Neighbourhood Association. Photo/ City of Grande Prairie
A developer is looking for a nearly $2-million tax break from City Hall. At a Corporate Services Committee meeting today, the developer of the Trader Ridge subdivision in the north end of the city ask...
May 14, 2019 Trader Ridge parcels. Photo/City of Grande Prairie
At a City Council meeting on Monday evening, Council chose to make changes to the way that meetings are conducted. Moving forward, schedule changes will be made on a trial basis for both City Council ...
May 09, 2019