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On March 16, 2025, at 2:25 p.m., Manning RCMP responded to a report that a deceased individual, later identified as Nathan Loonskin, a 38-year-old Paddle Prairie, Alta. resident, was located within a vehicle on Range Road 224, in Carcajou, Alta. The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit was deployed and has taken carriage of the investigation.

The Grande Prairie Police Service’s newly established Community Standards Unit (CSU) successfully apprehended a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant following an incident the morning of March 26, 2025.  

At approximately 9:15 a.m., GPPS officers on patrol observed a traffic violation involving a taxi in downtown Grande Prairie. Officers initiated a traffic stop and the vehicle continued to drive for a short distance before stopping.  

Residents are invited to take part in City Scrub from April 2-30 by spending 20 minutes picking up litter in parks, neighbourhoods and public spaces.

Spring is here, offering a great opportunity to come together and show community pride. Collected litter can be placed in household garbage carts alongside regular waste, helping keep the city clean and welcoming.

Free clean-up supplies, including garbage bags and gloves, are available April 2-30 at several City facilities:

Alberta's health authority is claiming its fired former executive breached her employment agreement by holding on to confidential emails with information pertaining to allegations in a high-profile court case.

A new affidavit filed Wednesday by Alberta Health Services says the agency is looking to amend its statement of defence in light of the emails, which the agency says it only became aware of last week. 

The following story is gruesome and some of the details may be triggering or traumatic to readers. Discretion is advised. 

A former children's church pastor in Kansas has just received his sentence from the courts after attempting to murder his wife and their children. 

Matthew Lee Richards formerly worked as a children's pastor at Crossroads Christian Church in Shawnee, Kansas. 

The lives of women and girls continue to be systemically devalued in Iran today. 

A new report is out from a UN fact-finding mission. It adds more evidence to the documentations of human rights violations surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Women, Life, Freedom” protests, some of which carry through even to today. 

For the second day in a row, Liberal Leader Mark Carney has been pulled away from campaigning to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. 

Carney, in his role as prime minister, will meet virtually with Canada's premiers today to discuss the country's response to Trump's latest duties.

The president signed an executive order earlier this week to implement 25 per cent levies on all automobile and auto part imports — his latest move to upend global trade through a massive tariff agenda that pushed some automakers' stock prices down on Thursday.

1 Timothy 2:5-6

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time."

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Psalm 23:5

As David's song of the sheep concludes, he suddenly drops the analogy to consider his own experience of God, both as a simple man in need of a Saviour and as a king in need of divine guidance.

Alberta's government is putting $19 million toward municipal flood and drought prevention projects as part of its new budget.

Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says eight municipalities as well as two Indigenous communities are to receive the grant funding.

She says the money will help build a new berm along the Bow River at Siksika First Nation and a retaining wall to protect the Slave Lake Airport.

Calgary is also to receive funding to improve a storm water ditch that connects the city to the nearby hamlet of Langdon.