Grande Prairie News

The sky is the limit for the future of Grande Prairie and Area Safe Communities, says volunteer Mark Whelpton.

See more photos of Remembrance Day in our photo galleries. You can also submit your own photos of Remembrance Day to our community photo galleries - here's how: 1. On the main page of our website look to the right side coloured in green.

Darice Rach and her son, Daylin, and niece, Alexis, hold cross-shaped wreaths during a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Jubiliee Park.

County council and senior staff are using the airwaves to stay in touch with their ratepayers.

The unlikely connection between Alberta and Newfoundland came into focus Friday on the eighth day of the Olympic Torch Relay.

After being carried through extreme Arctic temperatures in recent days, the Olympic flame is making its way to a slightly warmer climate.

GRANDE PRAIRIE a ' A year after a fatality inquiry wrapped up into the death of an intoxicated woman in a Grande Prairie Jail cell, a judgea TMs report on the matter has been issued publicly.

Lab technician Mindy Kowal does a simple blood test with registered dietitan Darren Klassen at the mobile diabetes clinic at the Friendship Centre yesterday.

Alberta's largest power producer is worried a piece of provincial legislation, due for approval this month, is the first step toward nuclear power in the Peace Country and that no matter what, electricity bills will go up because of it.

EDMONTON a ' A 17-year-old male driver from northwestern Alberta has died following a crash between two pickup trucks.

Photo courtesy of Sheryle Runhart: Firefighters from the County and City of Grande Prairie, Sexsmith and Bezanson had to go through fences to get to an unoccupied trailer ablaze around 9 p.m. yesterday.

Legislation to end the practice of judges granting two-for-one credit to convicted criminals for time served has been given royal assent by the Governor General and is now law.

Most 25-year-olds have long been fully immersed in online social media, but STARS air ambulance-- on the verge of a quarter-century-- is just starting to delve into the possibilities offered by the Internet.

City council will be asked next week to make Grande Prairie one of the first cities in Canada to take a United Nations anti-racism program to the national level.

FIRE AND ICE: Heath Frisby, a 25-year-old snowcross competitor on the FSX Fire and Ice World Tour and Winter X Games bronze medallist, catches air for the entertainment of the crowd at the Canada Games Arena last night.

It looks like the Grande Prairie Fire Department will branch out a little further and offer its emergency dispatch services to a new customer.

" They started life abandoned and lost on the streets of Kenya. Now the youth of the Mully Children's Family Home are touring Canada as part of the Mully Children's family Mission Choir's North American Safari.

Grande Prairie s Tyler Cruickshank takes part in an anti nuclear protest outside the Alberta Legislature yesterday afternoon.

Nine years ago, Michael Earl Kelly reported Judith Thibault missing in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Wembley Fire Chief Richard Querin stands just below the mural Clancy Moonbeam Fitzgerald painted on the side wall of the fire station.