Bonnyville News

The Bonnyville Covenant Health Centre is on the verge of being able to offer primary health care to everyone in the community after the local doctor recruitment committee successfully recruited six new doctors. Dr. Leigh-Ann Smith and Dr.

After years of appeals to the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Canadian agriculture industry was finally able to get the mandatory Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) rules repealed.

The oil and gas sector took a major hit in 2015 and, while people kept waiting for it to rebound, it was never able to climb back up.

Two local women who were suspects in the theft from the Real Canadian Wholesale Club are now in custody after landing themselves in a pursuit with Cold Lake RCMP.

The Bonnyville Centralized High School's Santa's Elves were busy last week wrapping approximately 2,000 gifts they had collected and bought over the past few months.

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to being in possession of forged documents following a break and enter at a Bonnyville residence. Bonnyville RCMP arrested Zachary Jonathon Wierzba on Dec.

Plummeting sales continue to plague Bonnyville businesses, even with Christmas around the corner, as the steady stream of holiday shoppers has been drastically reduced by a slower economy.

Ashley Nicole Jorgenson, 32, was sentenced to 30 months in a federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to 48 fraud related charges from crimes committed throughout Alberta last week. Jorgenson appeared in Cold Lake court on Dec.

The MD of Bonnyville is planning on hosting another producers meeting, with the goal of providing farmers in the region with more information on how to prevent the invasion of clubroot.

After a successful mud-filled weekend in 2015 organizers have decided to bring back Extreme Mudfest for another action packed three days in August. “Last's years event was phenomenal for us.