Bonnyville News

When it comes to assessing the state of health care in the Bonnyville/Cold Lake region it is clear it has to be looked at differently than in other parts of the province, says Health Minister Fred Horne.

The City of Cold Lake's quest to seek support for a regional governance resolution it plans to bring to the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) has once again sparked a debate over regional government in the Lakeland.

For the past two decades residents in the Lakeland have been voicing their concerns over the decreasing water levels in Muriel Lake.

Reeve Ed Rondeau says the MD of Bonnyville council is adamantly against the regional governance resolution put forth by the City of Cold Lake. “I am not very excited about it because it leads to more than regional government.

A 51-year-old woman appeared in Bonnyville provincial court for the first time on June 3, facing charges of first degree murder, after firefighters found the body of a man inside a home, while responding to a fire in Glendon.

They're private conversations, held in rural communities across Northeastern Alberta: “We already drive the toddler to Athabasca at 5:30 a.m. to drop them at Nan's before work.

Existing affordable housing units are full and new units are unavailable in Bonnyville and Cold Lake. The waiting list for affordable housing in Bonnyville has doubled in recent months, as the demand for housing and cost of rent continue to climb.

The Northern Lights School Division's (NLSD) switch away from grades-based assessment is garnering opposition from elsewhere in the division.

Over the weekend, Bonnyville RCMP received three calls for impaired driving, which resulted in one driver being charged with breath samples of three times the legal limit.

Family and friends of Kevin Feland mourned the death of someone they remembered as a fun-loving and caring man, after firefighters found his body when responding to a May 25 residential house fire in Glendon.