Lac La Biche News

Thieves steal radioactive device from oilfield truck. Lac La Biche and Fort McMurray RCMP are searching for someone who has stolen something that could be more trouble than it's worth. Police say a radioactive device was stolen sometime over the last three days from a pickup truck parked at an area oilfield site.

An arsonist's early morning crime forced the temporary closure of some businesses within the Squirrely's block Monday morning, as the deliberately set fire scorched main power lines on the outside of the building.

Members of the Lakeland Interpretive Society are still counting, but the proceeds from the grand opening of the Lac La Biche Regional Museum and Discovery Centre at McArthur Place are expected to total approximately $11,000.

County officials have responded to community concerns that the annual Lac La Biche County Christmas party, a private party for county employees, is a publicly funded event.

Lac La Biche and Fort McMurray RCMP are looking for a radioactive device apparently stolen from an unattended work truck at a regional industrial site.

If “Highway Thru Hell” producer Mark Miller and his crew learned one thing last winter, it’ s that northern Alberta’ s highways, troublesome as they can be, are not truly hellish in and of themselves.

Alberta Health Services issued an advisory Aug. 19 that blue-green algae is present in the lake. The advisory warned residents and visitors to not drink the water in the lake or let their pets drink it, even after boiling, not to swim in the lake and to avoid contact with algae on the shoreline.

Alcohol and speed are not considered factors in a fatal single-vehicle crash Aug. 17 on Highway 881, according to the RCMP. A 26-year old male from Red Deer, Alta.

The 52nd annual Pow Wow Days and Fish Derby was as successful as could be, organizers say.

Collisions down by one-third on 63 On August 7th and 8th, Boyle RCMP and the Boyle Integrated Traffic Unit conducted a High Visibility Enforcement Operation on Highway 63.