Lac La Biche News

J.A. Williams High School hosted a hoop-hero last week. Dallas Arcand, a world-class hoop-dancer and musician was at the school on May 23 to help celebrate Aboriginal Aware­ness Week.

With what’ s being called the best spawning run in half a century, officials are confident that the intensive walleye restocking effort in Lac La Biche Lake is a success-so much so that there could be the possibility of walleye sport fishing returnin

Lac La Biche-St Paul-Two Hills MLA and Wildrose Justice and Solicitor General critic Shayne Saskiw is taking a shot at the ruling PC government by challenging their so-called “soft stance” on protecting gun-owner’s rights.

Margaret Erasmus smiles as she holds up a pair of stunning hand-beaded boots—it took her 280 hours to hand-sew the thousands of tiny beads onto the white cotton.

Th From local grass fires near the train tracks to forest blazes that can reduce thousands of acres of trees into smoldering ruin, one little flame can change lives.

Two large wildfires classified as out of control by provincial authorities have burned more than 1,650 hectares of forest to the east and west of Lac La Biche County—causing highway closings and reportedly destroying homes and a business.

Are northern Alberta’s oil sands compromising the environmental protection of the whole country? That’s what environmental groups are asking after the federal government proposed changes that would alter the way Canada’s lakes, streams, rivers, and o