Bonnyville News

It takes a true hero to be a firefighter, but it takes an even greater hero to continue to be one while battling cancer. One of those heroes stands among the Iron River Fire Department.

It's time for Alberta to start taking Lyme Disease seriously. Local woman Deanna Lonsberry is living proof of that fact, she knows all too well the disease is closer to home than people think.

Every morning for the past seven weeks, Carla Green has walked down stairs to turn on the pump that has been draining 50 gallons of water each day out of her basement.

The Beaver River was a sea of yellow as thousands of rubber ducks raced their way to the finish line. It was the 26th annual Ardmore Duck Race on Sunday, June 4, and 2,000 little yellow ducks showed up to do their part for Ardmore School.

The students of today are solving the problems of tomorrow. Grade 7 students at H.E. Bourgoin Middle School have made it to the top 150 in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge.

Bonnyville RCMP are searching for the suspect of an attempted child abduction in Fort Kent. On May 31, at around 6 p.m., a group of young children were playing on 49 Street in Fort Kent when they were approached by the suspect.

Bonnyville's least favourite creepy crawlers are back and in bigger numbers. Tent caterpillars have made their way back to the area, for what officials hope is the last time.

The Town of Bonnyville had an unexpected visitor. Calls flooded in to the Fish and Wildlife Report a Poacher line about a black bear wandering through town early on Tuesday, May 31.

Young ranchers from the Bonnyville Beef, Beaver River Beef and Ardmore Beef 4-H clubs put their hard work on display at the annual 4-H district show and sale.

The Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission (ABEBC) is taking a second look at the borders of constituencies across the province.