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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
