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Spring Lake Ski Hill may open before the holiday season. Well, if there’s snow.  While an official opening date has not yet been confirmed, Spring Lake Ski Hill Association board chairman Brian Peterson told the News the ski hill is set to open before Christmas, with the doors open on weekends from 9 a.m. to […]

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A new project hopes to revolutionize health care in northwestern Alberta by improving access to medical specialists and services.  The Maskwa Medical Centre hopes to begin constructing a 100,000-square-foot building south of the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital this fall.  “We will continue to advocate for a team-based approach with specialists to diagnose complex medical conditions […]

About $700,000 in provincial funding is missing for Grande Prairie area municipalities. Funding for water, wastewater and solid waste management is missing for the shareholders of Aquatera: the City of Grande Prairie, County of Grande Prairie, and the towns of Sexsmith and Wembley. “Because we don't directly own it, we're not getting credit for it,” […]

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Chocolate cake, laughs and the opera is what you can expect from Grande Prairie Opera’s Double the Opera performances later this month.  Double the Opera will have two short operas, Bon Apetit and The Telephone, on May 24 and 25 in Grande Prairie.  “We're doing something a little bit different,” said Chelsie Pall, founder of […]

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The Sexsmith and Area Food Bank made its move to a new home on May 1. Volunteers helped carry boxes and set up shelves to bring the stored food from the food bank’s old location in a building adjacent to the Grace Bible Fellowship Church to a room in the Sexsmith Community Centre. Sexsmith Food […]

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Less infrastructure funding leaves municipalities with tough decisions

Local municipalities are grappling with rising infrastructure costs and less cash from the province.  The province is handing out about $4 million less to local municipalities in 2024 than it did in 2011.  “If we had the same infrastructure funding as we had back in 2011, then that's a huge property tax decrease we could […]

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Grande Prairie youths test at RBC Training Ground

Over 90 youths were part of the search for the next generation of Canadian Olympians in Grande Prairie on Monday.  The RBC Training Ground at the Eastlink Centre was open for youths aged 14 to 25 to test their strength, power, endurance, and aerobic fitness. “It’s how we find and fund (future) Olympians,” said RBC […]

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National Aboriginal Hockey Championships opening ceremony

The National Aboriginal Hockey Championship brought the region over 350 athletes and officials. "This elite sporting event marks a significant milestone as it lands in Alberta for the first time in its history,” said City of Grande Prairie Mayor Jackie Clayton. Hythe Regional School’s Grade 3 Cree Language students performed a hello song and the […]