Grande Prairie News

The Town of Hinton has hired a new fire chief, following the recent retirement of Roger Nordick, who served as the department's chief since 2005.

The number of people receiving regular employment insurance benefits in Canada increased in September, driven by claims in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.

Grande Prairie became a little more like a grand forest this year with hundreds of new trees planted across the city.

Grande Prairie's surging population, about 7,200 as the '50s drew to a close, was not only prompting a housing boom but an increasing demand for schools.

"Movember" was a success for local firefighters a ' one that is still bringing in money.

A 21-year-old Grande Prairie man was killed Friday night after the snowmobile he was test driving hit a barbed wire fence,. Christopher Cameron Donnelly was driving the snowmobile at 9:30 p.m. when he hit the fence in a field off the Crystal Creek Road , about 6 1/2 kilometres east of Grande Prairie, between Range Roads 54 and 55.

Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh were at the Prairie Art Gallery on Saturday to present their experimental digital project, Instant Places: Canada Wide.

Josh Wingrove Globe and Mail Update Published on Friday, Dec. 04, 2009 11:15PM EST Last updated on Friday, Dec.

A 25-year-old Alberta man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a two-year-old girl.

Regardless of one's native language's translation of the words they mean the same thing.

Alberta police say a missing Toronto teen may be in the Grande Prairie area, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

The 2009 Farm Women's Conference wrapped up last week at the Grande Prairie Inn a ' maybe for the last time.

Credit Henri Forcier: Fire broke out at Eagle Manor apartments on 92 Avenue next to Resources Road early Saturday morning, destroying the building and leaving dozens homeless.

The Grande Prairie Fire Department, with an assist from the Sexsmith Fire Department, spent the better part of Saturday battling a blaze at Eagle Manor that has left the apartment complex s residents displaced.

Look, up in the sky. Is it a bird? No. Is it a plane? Well sort of. Is it ... no, it's not a superhero in tights.

Residents of a 30-unit apartment are homeless after a fire demolished the building in Grande Prairie early Saturday morning, said a spokesman for the city.

Isabel Campbell Herald-Tribune Collection/Alberta Heritage Digitization ProjectNorman Dalen was chosen president of the Grande Prairie Film Council in November 1959.

At first it seemed like Adelaide might have just had a bad cold or the flu. The infant was only a few weeks old the night of May 22 when she was taken to the QEII Hospital with breathing problems.

Christie Johnson and Memory Chazeza co-founded the Atsikana Pa Ulendo Secondary School in Malawi in 2008.

In what's being described as a Canadian first, Grande Prairie has been awarded access to its own section of wireless data spectrum, something that could eventually lead to major cash savings for taxpayers.