Lac La Biche News

Lac La Biche and Plamondon fire departments, along with Lac La Biche RCMP and ambulance were at the scene of a crash on Hwy. 55 this afternoon just before 3 p.m.

It is casting an odour across much of the hamlet of Lac La Biche and the swirling green scum washing up to the shores of Lac La Biche lake offers an equally unappealing visual.

Dr. Trent Keough responded candidly to several poignant questions asked about the challenges faced by Portage College in the wake of staff layoffs, resignations, program changes, low enrollments and much-reduced government funding.

Lac La Biche is a community divided — by a rail line. And the one thing the community's residents and leaders aren't divided on, is that the rail line is a big concern for safety, traffic and pedestrian convenience. The tracks even have one councillor suggesting a picket of the busy train line that services much of the oil rich northern part of the province.

UPDATE: 3:45 P.M. Employees allowed back on site as bomb threat investigation continues MEG Energy officials are confirming that a bomb threat was made at their drilling site near Conklin earlier today.

For their loved ones who have battled cancer, five people shaved off their hair and raised over $7,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation's Great Canadian Hair "Do" last Thursday.

A fire that started Tuesday night took more than seven hours and 40 firefighters from several Lac La Biche area fire halls to get under control. The blaze raged within a compound filled with bales of recycled paper and other products at Big Jim's Recycling Centre in Lac La Biche and forced the evacuation of a nearby hotel.

On June 26, Community Futures, the Lac La Biche and District Chamber of Commerce, Alberta HUB, the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta is hosting an EARN (Employee Attraction and Retention Network) event called Trust the Process: Build