Lac La Biche News

A woman from the Lac La Biche area pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud over $5,000 in St. Paul Provincial Court last week. Karen Young, 55, has been sentenced to 18 months on a suspended sentence.

It was a fitting end to a marathon Progressive Conservative nomination campaign in Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, as the vote counting process lasted three rounds, stretching through the night and into the next morning. Over 1,800 votes were cast.

Darrell Younghans, a longtime school board executive and local Progressive Conservative organizer, has been nominated as the next PC candidate for the Lac La Biche–St. Paul–Two Hills constituency.

At approximately 1:45 pm on Friday, RCMP responded to a complaint about a potentially dangerous situation in Plamondon, which resulted in a large police presence in the area.

Today's hours-long power outage affecting much of Lac La Biche County was caused by an errant raven landing in the wrong place at a local electrical substation. Rolling blackouts will continue throughout the region until mid-afternoon March 10, when initial repair work is expected to be completed.

Two Lac La Biche men have been charged with assault, various weapons charges, and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with an alleged robbery and stabbing in the Beaver Lake area.

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CN officials are saying a Feb.15 train derailment, that saw four cars containing crude oil leave the track near Conklin was cleared up within six hours.

A Lac La Biche trucking company’ s fight with the municipality over the location of employee work camps and other Land Use Bylaw issues has gone public.

As Ron and Grace Johnston and their family continue to deal with the aftermath of so senselessly having lost a loved one in the line of duty, they don’ t like to talk about it in interviews.