Lac La Biche News

Putting closed-circuit surveillance cameras along Main Street would help reduce crime, say police and a local councilllor.

Voyageurs 4 MacEwan Griffins 1 The sixth week of the 2011-12 ACAC hockey season had the Voyageurs playing a home and home series with the MacEwan Griffins. Last weekend the Voyageurs enjoyed a win and a tie against the Briercrest Clippers.

After years of planning and thousands of volunteer hours, the Catholic Church officially blessed the recently renovated St. Isidore Parish in Plamondon.

Lac La Biche County could soon be seeing more oil projects – and the revenue that comes with them – if regulators approve the new in situ projects. The Canadian Natural Resource Ltd.

Residents who rely on the Greyhound for transportation will have to search for alternatives after the bus company scrapped their daytime Lac La Biche service to and from Edmonton and Fort McMurray.

Plans by a local business owner to expand his propane retail outlet with a large 4,816 cubic-foot tank to be situated near three schools and within a few hundred feet of a fast-food restaurant and the Al-kareem Mosque have been challenged by Lac La B

Lac La Biche County is spearheading a $93,000 promotion and awareness campaign to address the impact the closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport will have on medical air services.

Watch a couple of minutes of talented fiddling. The performers were at a talent show at the Bold Center on Nov. 12 as part of the first annual Métis Week.

Fronted by Calgary based husband and wife musicians Lynae and Dennis Dufresne, the alternative county band PEAR will be one of the headliners at the Dec.

Who will promote the area when the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31? Lac La Biche County Council is currently undecided about whether to extend their tourism and marketing contract – which expires at the end of the year – with Community Futures.