Lac La Biche News

Booms that rattled windows on Wednesday night could have been from a night-time training exercise at CFB Cold Lake.

Light of Christ Catholic Elementary School hosted its Christian Unity service last Wednesday, which featured some special guests.

When Suzanne Plamondon confronted Jane Fonda in Fort McMurray last Tuesday it was not for an autograph, it was for some answers. But when Fonda’ s security guards quickly lead her away from the pro-oilsands activist, she received an earful.

Do you have any new ideas for Pow Wow Days? Then come out to Community Futures tomorrow night a 7 p.m. for the Pow Wow Days Association’ s annual general meeting.

Big winds, blowing snow leaves Lac La Biche area in a whiteout

A married couple have been left displaced and an entire family lucky to be alive after a fire left their Hylo home in ruins on the night of New Year’ s Eve.

Husband and wife Rani McKhoul and Dareen Saliby are both glad they were able to celebrate Christmas this year in Lac La Biche - it’ s been a while since they were able to do it at all.

Things got interesting at last week’ s county council meeting when Mayor Omer Moghrabi turned over his chair to Councillor and Deputy Mayor Robert Richard in order to put a motion on the floor to adjust ward boundaries to reflect a seven-member counc

Lac La Biche, Athabasca and Fort McMurray RCMP are expected to release more details on an arrest this afternoon of suspects believed to have been involved in a crime spree stretching from Athabasca to Conklin.

After getting some harsh feedback from the public after voicing his feelings about what he sees as some complacent workers in the 200 employee workforce within the municipality, a Lac La Biche County councillor is standing by his words.