Lac La Biche News

The search continues for Donald Stratton, a 69 year-old man who has been missing in Lac La Biche Lake since Aug. 30. Police say the search will continue on Sunday Sept. 8.

Lac La Biche and Plamondon fire departments, along with Lac La Biche RCMP and ambulance were at the scene of a crash on Hwy. 55 this afternoon just before 3 p.m.

It is casting an odour across much of the hamlet of Lac La Biche and the swirling green scum washing up to the shores of Lac La Biche lake offers an equally unappealing visual.

Dr. Trent Keough responded candidly to several poignant questions asked about the challenges faced by Portage College in the wake of staff layoffs, resignations, program changes, low enrollments and much-reduced government funding.

Lac La Biche is a community divided — by a rail line. And the one thing the community's residents and leaders aren't divided on, is that the rail line is a big concern for safety, traffic and pedestrian convenience. The tracks even have one councillor suggesting a picket of the busy train line that services much of the oil rich northern part of the province.

UPDATE: 3:45 P.M. Employees allowed back on site as bomb threat investigation continues MEG Energy officials are confirming that a bomb threat was made at their drilling site near Conklin earlier today.

For their loved ones who have battled cancer, five people shaved off their hair and raised over $7,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation's Great Canadian Hair "Do" last Thursday.