Lac La Biche News

Jake Matthews will join Duane Steele, Samantha King and alternative country group PEAR at McGrane Theatre for the Canadian Country Christmas Concert brought to the area by Portage College and the LLB Agricultural Society.

A new television commercial promoting snowmobile safety, scripted by a Grade 6 student from Iron River and produced by Alberta Health Services (AHS), makes its official debut today on the Internet. In the 30-second spot, Brock Friedel tells viewers to "use your brain, not the throttle,” to warn against the dangers of reckless driving. In the commercial, Brock describes the importance of wearing a helmet, using proper safety equipment, getting the right training and following common sense.

Area residents living and travelling along a section of Highway 881 are petitioning to have speed limits on the busy road reduced.

The RCMP are seeing an increased amount of assault reports this year, with almost half of them relating to drug and alcohol use.

For years, the Hamlet of Lac La Biche has been home to a CN rail-switching yard. Located between The Bargain Shop and Rona, the yard is where cars are shunted from track to track – routinely blocking the hamlet’s two north-south streets.

Local educators and police say they are concerned Lac La Biche County Council might axe the community’s dedicated in-school RCMP officer program.

After 34 years as chief of Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Alphonse “Al” Lameman, 68, is retiring from politics. Lameman was first elected in 1971 when he was only 28 years old, making him one of the youngest chiefs in Canada at the time.

A mosaic of cultures is what Canada is known for, and Lac La Biche County is no exception.