Bonnyville News

A new four-person chairlift is up and running at Kinosoo Ridge Resort’s ski hill this season, replacing the 40-year-old green chairlift. The upgrade came with a price tag of just over $4.2 million.

A review of the MD of Bonnyville’s no road ban pilot project was deemed a success by the municipality's transportation department. Council discussions suggest heavy haulers in agriculture industries will likely lose their exemption from municipal Road Use Agreements when a permanent policy is introduced next year.

A slight miscommunication may have left some thinking that the Beautification Loan Program for local businesses has been shelved, but Community Futures Lakeland’s general manager says the program is ongoing and is hoping to continue the program indefinitely.

In January, a public hearing will allow residents and ratepayers to weigh-in on the first draft of an MD bylaw that would allow for the majority of municipal public notifications to be advertised exclusively online. In anticipation that this bylaw would pass, $100,000 has already been cut from the MD’s 2023 print media budget.

An Alberta adaptation of Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater" performed by École des Beaux-Lacs students left audiences members in stitches on the evening of Dec. 20.

In six days, seven vehicles were reported stolen in the Town of Bonnyville. Bonnyville RCMP Staff Sgt. reminds residents to never leave the keys inside a vehicle unattended.

After an appeal and a recount, the winner of the Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul UCP nomination vote is Scott Cyr, who beat current MLA David Hanson by just one vote.

Bonnyville RCMP alleges that a 22-year-old impaired and suspended driver rear-ended another vehicle while travelling on Range Road 460, causing both vehicles to hit the ditch.

The expansion of the Bonnyville Friendship Centre’s office is taking shape as GenMec ACL crews push through frigid temperatures to complete the major infrastructure project within a strict timeline as part of a federal grant’s funding requirement.

Unknown culprit(s) targeted three mailbox units in the Town of Bonnyville stealing parcels and mail overnight on Dec. 15 and Dec. 20.