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Grande Prairie man makes ‘Price is Right’ history

When you’re playing a guessing game, hearing “you’re just a little bit off,” is usually a good feeling. Now imagine…

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Canada

B.C. politicians debate reflooding Sumas Prairie

A new report by a team of UBC scientists has B.C. politicians and First Nations weighing in after it proposed relocating…

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Canada

Smoke clouds Alberta as wildfires burn near Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie

Poor internet connection? Access a low-bandwidth, accessible version of this story on CBC Lite. Air quality in much of Alberta worsened…

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Canada

MP rebukes top housing official for chronic underfunding of Prairie First Nations

A New Democrat member of Parliament rebuked a federal housing executive on Thursday, after an audit found his organization shortchanged Prairie…

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Canada

Manitoba, federal governments promise $20M each to search Prairie Green landfill for human remains

WARNING: This story contains distressing details about missing and murdered Indigenous women. The federal and provincial governments have committed $20 million…

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Canada

Twin brothers brave extreme Prairie cold to spend weekend in homestead shack they built

Last August, twin brothers John and Frank Robinson set out to build the homestead shack their grandfather never got to finish. They…

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Tech

Paleontologists discover rare fossils of a Cretaceous-era lizard near Grande Prairie, Alta.

Not far from the bank of Wapiti River, just 11 kilometres from Grande Prairie, there’s a paleontological goldmine: an ancient…

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Politics

Prairie First Nations call on Ottawa to rewrite clean water bill

First Nations leaders in Manitoba and Alberta are calling on Ottawa to redraft proposed new clean water legislation — and warn that the bill…

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Tech

Sunscreen instead of ski pants? What El Niño could mean for the upcoming Prairie winter

El Niño is making its return after a nearly eight-year hiatus, and forecasters say it could impact winter weather on the…

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Tech

‘Super pig’ Prairie problem now approaching the U.S. border

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states…

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