Lac La Biche News

Earlier this year, Northern Lights Public Schools announced that Buffalo Lake, the only Métis settlement in Alberta without an onsite school, had been approved for the funding.

The program will be taught at Portage College's Lac La Biche campus and focus on topics such as psychiatric nursing, psychology, social work, child and youth care, as well as addiction counselling.

A Lac La Biche resident says she is going to take time to think about what she will do with her $1 million lottery win.

A man from Kikino is $300,000 richer after a lotto win earlier this month.

Under the restriction, portable propane fire pits, gas or propane stoves and barbeques, and catalytic or infrared-style heaters are permitted. However, existing fire permits remain cancelled, and no new fire permits will be issued.

A new school will soon replace Lac La Biche’s 52-year-old Vera M. Welsh Elementary School. The project is one of 11 school projects across Alberta that have been fast-tracked by the province for construction.  

The Lakeland Métis Nation Association has been awarded $600,000 for cancer screening awareness programs through the provincial Cancer Research in Screening Prevention Program.  

The event was held on May 15 at McArthur Place in Lac La Biche.

The Road to Hope community support foundation, which transports cancer patients in the counties of Lac La Biche and Athabasca to appointments, currently has four drivers in the Lac La Biche area.

Jayden Draney, a hockey player from Kikino Métis Settlement who has played high levels of the game in both Canada and the United States, says by taking part in sport, especially hockey, Indigenous youth learn life values and can also celebrate their culture.