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Residents and business owners with properties next to gravel roads can apply for dust suppression treatment between April 1 and April 25, 2025.

Residents in rural service areas may request dust suppression and control treatment for gravel roads in sections of at least 100 metres.

The application fee is $440 for residential properties and $660 for commercial properties per 100 metres of gravel road.

Bridge Repair on Range Road 91, south of Township Road 710, is set to start Monday, March 31st at 08:00AM.

The project is expected to be completed on Wednesday, April 2nd, weather dependent.  

Over the past several weeks, High Prairie RCMP has received multiple complaints regarding break and enters in the High Prairie area. An investigation was quickly initiated but little evidence was to be found at the various locations. This changed after a break and enter took place at I&P Mechanic on March 15, 2025. The cameras installed at the business were able to capture the three suspects, two of which were identified and subsequently arrested by High Prairie RCMP. The third suspect, who was brandishing a firearm at the time, has yet to be identified.

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.

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.