Category Archives: Local News
2025 Lac La Biche Ice Festival Promises a Weekend of Winter Fun
The 2025 Lac La Biche Ice Ice Festival is set to make its long-awaited return for thrilling ice races, aircraft fly-ins, and live music. Ken Staples, event coordinator of the Lac La Biche Ice Festival...
Feb 20, 2025 Lac La Biche Ice Races
YMCA Castledowns Hosts HUB Youth Summit to Empower Local Teens
The YMCA Castledowns is set to host the HUB Youth Summit, bringing together young leaders for a day of inspiration, learning, and community engagement. The event will feature workshops, and interactiv...
Feb 20, 2025 YMCA Castledowns Edmonton (Photo Credits - Daniel Barker-Tremblay)
5.2-magnitude earthquake recorded in northern Alberta
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Alberta and B.C. Thursday morning. The epicenter, located approximately halfway between Grande Prairie and Grande Cache, was about five kilometres deep, the a...
Feb 20, 2025
Alberta set to host major international sporting events
With spring on the horizon, Alberta will be at the centre of the sporting world over the next few weeks. Alberta is hosting three major international sport events and two national championships over t...
Feb 20, 2025 Minister of Tourism and Sport Joseph Schow speaking inside Rogers Place (Photo Credits - Daniel Barker-Tremblay)
Oilers' Ryan Nugent Hopkins Helps Tackle Hunger at Edmonton Food Bank Drive
The Edmonton Food Bank got a big assist with a special fundraising drive featuring Edmonton Oilers Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Fans lined up for a chance to meet the longtime forward while supporting a great...
Feb 19, 2025 Edmonton Food Bank Drive
Man killed in snowmobile crash at Alberta Beach winter festival
The family of 41-year-old, Michael Moore, confirmed that he was killed while snowmobiling at SnoMo Days in Alberta Beach on Sunday. RCMP said that the snowmobile collided with a parked truck in the pa...
Feb 19, 2025
Lac Ste. Anne County Fire Hall broken into on Monday
The small town fire hall responsible for a large rural area and busy Alberta highway has been robbed of essential life-saving equipment. On Sunday evening, RCMP said the Lac Ste. Anne County fire hall...
Feb 19, 2025
First Indigenous-led Architecture Exhibit Set to Debut in Edmonton
The world's first Indigenous-led contemporary architecture exhibit makes its way to Edmonton for the grand opening of UNCEDED: Voices of the Land on March 8th at Edmonton City Centre and will run unti...
Feb 18, 2025 Elders reading the text inside the UNCEDED Exhibit
Grande Prairie Rural RCMP detachment is moving
Grande Prairie's Rural RCMP detachment is relocating. On February 24th, the station will now be based out of the Western Alberta District Office on Westside Drive. This allows rural officers to provid...
Feb 18, 2025
2 men found dead inside ice fishing tent
Two men found dead in an ice fishing tent on a lake in northeastern Alberta likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning, RCMP said Tuesday. Police were alerted on Saturday that two men had been found dec...
Feb 18, 2025 Crow Lake Provincial Park, File Photo
