Bonnyville News

After raising over $4,000 himself, participant Craig Wenzel was named “sole survivor” on Saturday evening, winning the third annual Survivor Lakeland competition and going home with the $5,000 grand prize.

After two hours of presentations and discussions the Muriel Lake Basin Management Society (MLBMS) voted to invest money into a long-term pressure monitoring system in wells around the depleting Muriel Lake.

Road crews are scattered throughout the MD of Bonnyville doing a variety of road construction and oiling with workers set to complete projects on over 66.1 miles (106 kilometers) of MD roads.

Bonnyville Victim Services has added a new four-legged member to its staff, as Odie, a two-year-old golden lab, has been brought onboard to assist the unit. Odie is from Dogs with Wings, the only accredited assistance dog training centre in Alberta.

Well ladies and gentlemen, the end is nigh. After a month of trials, triumphs and tribulations we are down to the final four teams at the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

Hundreds of local kids were treated to an early Christmas present this past week as several local dignitaries officially declared the brand new Bonnyville Splash Park open for business at a special ceremony on Canada Day.

Production at Baytex's Gemini project has reached 1,000 barrels a day, giving the company reason to seriously consider expanding the pilot project to a full commercial operation.

The Town of Bonnyville will be co-sponsoring the regional governance resolution introduced by the City of Cold Lake earlier this summer when the urban municipality brings it to the annual AUMA meeting later this year.

Well guys, almost two weeks into the 2014 Fifa World Cup and all the hopes and dreams of this reporter have been well and truly destroyed.

And the Northern Gateway pipeline project is a go – or at least that was the message sent out by the federal government last week when, after a decade of back and forth debates and discussions, the national body decided it would approve the controver