The economic region which includes Grande Prairie continued to report the lowest unemployment rate in Alberta in February.
According to Statistics Canada, last month 4.6 per cent of people were unemployed in the Banff – Jasper – Rocky Mountain House and Athabasca – Grande Prairie – Peace River region, which is up a fraction of a per cent from the previous month but down fraction of per cent from the February of last year.
The economic region with the highest unemployment rate in the province last month was Red Deer who reported a 7.5 per cent unemployment rate.
The provincial unemployment rate stayed steady at 6.7 per cent seeing no change from the previous month.
