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January 9, 2025

The MD of Spirit River is hoping it can walk back another Agriculture Financial Services (AFSC) decision that sees its office open only one day a week.It’s worked before.Four years ago, the News reported AFSC intended to close this AFSC office with a staff of one in May 2021.  After pressure on the province by […]

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GPLT getting ready for automatic, systematic, hydromatic production of Grease

January 16, 2025

Grande Prairie Live Theatre (GPLT) has chills, and they’re multiplying.Grease the Musical is setting up to debut next month at the Douglas J. Cardinal Performing Arts Centre and will feature 26 cast members and an eight-piece band in a jukebox-styled set.For director Jennifer Robertson, it represents coming full circle on her theatrical career. With two […]

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MD of SR wants to re-instate full-time AFSC office

January 9, 2025
The MD of Spirit River is hoping it can walk back another Agriculture Financial Services (AFSC) decision that sees its office open only one day a week.It’s worked before.Four years ago, the News reported AFSC intended to close this AFSC office with a staff of one in May 2021.  After pressure on the province by […]

Hundreds in a pickle for pickleball

January 9, 2025
Dozens are popping into pickleball to escape the January chill, and Grande Prairie Pickleball Club (GPPC) vice president Dan Gorman said more players than ever are showing up every week. Gorman said the club has approximately 350 players, from as old as 86 to as young as five years old. “We’re expecting that to grow […]

Grande Prairie Technical Search and Rescue seeks increased funding

January 9, 2025

Grande Prairie Technical Search and Rescue Association (TSR) is seeking increased support from local municipalities in the years ahead.Founded in 1995, TSR is a volunteer association which trains its members in search and rescue disciplines including rope rescue, ice rescue, swift water rescue, remote medical response and evacuation, and heavy animal rescue, and organizes searches […]

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County of Grande Prairie to pay $7.3 million to city over four years

January 9, 2025

The County of Grande Prairie will pay the City of Grande Prairie about $7.3 million over four years after signing a Recreation and Culture Cost Sharing Agreement.This year, the county will provide $2.76 million to the city this year, with the amount being adjusted annually to reflect the cost of services over the four-year term […]

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Rising Above breaks ground on new building

January 9, 2025

Rising Above, a faith-based addictions treatment centre, broke ground at its Park Campus in Grande Prairie on Monday.It marked the beginning of construction on a $5 million four-storey building and will bring more resources to its clients. It will be located on the site of the former young offenders centre.“It's a turning point for the […]

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Improved emergency response coming to Grande Prairie with $4.4 million facility

January 9, 2025

City on 99 will become a new $4.4 million Integrated Emergency Communications Centre (IECC) over the next year, which will combine emergency resources dispatching under one roof.The centre is expected to create more efficiencies and improve emergency response in the city by dispatching the proper resources to calls.“When that call for service comes in from […]

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