Lac La Biche News

Whether he’s a federal bureaucrat dabbling into the affairs of local politics, or a concerned military officer wanting the best for the personnel under his command, CFB Cold Lake Com­manding Officer Col.

A Lac La Biche man Gained a new appreciation for laundry maintenance as a Tide of firefighters Bounced into his Dumasfield home last Thursday morning to put out a dryer fire.

It was 3:54 a.m. on January 2 when first-time parents Tanya Desjarlais and Travis White received their New Year’s present, their son Gerald Trevor White, who was the first baby of the New Year in Lac La Biche.

Winter brings some cold temperatures and bad snowstorms, and for the Alberta Health Services dialysis bus that comes to Lac La Biche, winter has been too much for it to handle. Local dialysis patients were forced to go to St.

The Bold Center is open, and the new multiplex has already attracted thousands of visitors, hosted a basketball tournament and a Portage Voyageurs hockey game, as staff work out the kinks of opening a new building.

Two of the three men wanted in connection with a bank robbery in Lac La Biche in late November have been arrested by police in two separate takedowns.

The driver of a Dodge pick-up truck was wedged beneath his truck’s dashboard after a crash on the old Conklin road late last Tuesday afternoon between his truck and a logging truck.

Don’t drink and drive because the police will catch you,” reads one brown paper bag. Another reads “Do not drink and drive. I don’t want to see you in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

With a new calendar year comes a new date and for some customers, that means forgetting to change the date on their cheques when heading to one of the local banks.