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The landscape outside the historic grain elevator in Sexsmith changed last Wednesday when the Sexsmith and District Museum Society added a locomotive engine and dining car next to the caboose at the train station.  Two large cranes simultaneously picked up the 246,000-pound locomotive and perfectly placed it down on the tracks. They then repeated the […]

The County of Grande Prairie is asking residents for input on the future of its electoral boundaries this month.The province is requiring the county to review its electoral division boundaries before the 2025 municipal election to determine if there is a population imbalance among divisions after it absorbed the Village of Hythe which was dissolved […]

The Town of Wembley is requesting that the County of Grande Prairie reimburse it for over $381,000 after the town repaired a portion of road under county jurisdiction. Wembley repaired Township Road 712 between Range Roads 82 and 83 in 2018 and funded the repairs through a no-interest loan from the county. It has since been […]

The Grande Prairie Hindu Association hosted its first Chariot Festival  in Grande Prairie on Saturday.  A parade left the Montrose Cultural Centre after an Aarti (prayer) and made its way to Muskoseepi Park for more dancing and food.  The tradition began over 5,000 years ago in the city of Jagannatha Puri, India and is now […]

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum hosted its two-day science festival Palaeo Palooza this weekend.  Saturday was spent with carnival games, scavenger hunts, and panels of professionals at the museum. On Sunday the festivities were moved to Pipestone Creek where science talk tables were set up in the park and along the trail to the […]