Bonnyville News

Last month, the MD of Bonnyville council agreed to go ahead with amendments to a bylaw that would, if passed, allow the MD to install and operate garbage bins on a chosen site used to service MD residents without requiring a development permit.

A public hearing regarding a proposed duplex to be built on 44 Street in Bonnyville was held at the Town council chambers and after much debate, council defeated the rezoning bylaw. On Aug. 28, council discussed bylaw No.

The controversial Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP) was approved late last month and came into effect Sept. 1.

With the province in an uproar over rats being discovered in a Medicine Hat landfill recently, Bonnyville has done its due diligence by sending a pest control officer to help exterminate the rodents.

Phase one of the Bonnyville Regional Fire Authority's (BRFA) fire training facility is complete and firefighters in the surrounding areas will now have an opportunity to train right here in Bonnyville.

Cold Lake RCMP officials have arrested and charged persons allegedly responsible for the fire damage to the Beaver River trestle on the Iron Horse Trail.

A 22-year-old local man is in custody after allegedly taking an adult female and her young daughter hostage in a Bonnyville residence.

Eighteen local competitors met in the Wetlander parking lot last month in a bid to outwit, outplay and outlast each other in a Bonnyville version of Survivor, an effort that raised an estimated $35,000 for the Boys and Girls Club.

Rain has caused construction projects in the MD of Bonnyville to fall behind schedule.

Eighteen local competitors met in the Wetlander parking lot last month in a bid to outwit, outplay and outlast each other in a Bonnyville version of Survivor, an effort that raised an estimated $35,000 for the Boys and Girls Club.