Bonnyville News

Over the next few weeks, two plays ‘You used to call me Marie...’ and ‘Dancing under the 13 moons’ created and featuring stories of Indigenous and Métis artists will take to stages across the Lakeland from Kikino to St. Paul and Bonnyville.

For the next five years, the C2’s sport and recreation field house will be known as the Graham Field House.

Taralee Merko was last seen at her Bonnyville residence on July 20. The 37-year-old's family has expressed concern for her well-being and the RCMP are now asking for the public’s assistance in locating her.

A Bonnyville resident has been arrested and charged with possessing and transmitting child pornography, following a joint investigation by the Northern Alberta Internet Child Exploitation Unit and the Bonnyville RCMP.

On Tuesday, firefighters from Station 5 Bonnyville responded to a fire that was caused by a tree that had fallen on to a powerline at an Imperial Oil Resources site, near the Mahikan plant.

With crossover weather conditions moving into the Lakeland region, the Lac La Biche Forest Area and the Bonnyville Regional Fire Authority have implemented a Fire Advisory effecting much of the MD of Bonnyville, in an effort to reduce human-caused fires and encourage fire safety.

MD residents who are not connected to municipal sewage lines will likely be paying more when it comes to disposing their wastewater, following the MD council's decision to close all municipal lagoons – Ardmore, Fort Kent and Therien – to outside septic haulers indefinitely due to concerns of excessive amounts of sludge.

The building that tied the Bonnyville community together for almost a half a century is currently under renovation, but the history of the Agriplex is promised to remain intact as the more than $1 million modernization promises to stay true to its original purpose – serving the community.

Bonnyville residents Sam Nunweiler and Jasmine Williams are facing numerous charges after the pair was allegedly caught selling items online that had been previously reported stolen during a residential break and enter.

A Bonnyville veterinary clinic confirms reports of two canine deaths that allegedly occurred after the pets swam in Moose Lake. Both deaths are suspected to have been caused by consuming lake water containing cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae.