Lac La Biche News

Lac La Biche County has seen a series of violent crimes over the past two weeks, including a brutal murder where a victim was put through a brush cutter, a stabbing where a 28-year-old man died, a shooting believed to be in retaliation to the stabbin

Each year, the Fraser Institute releases a ‘report card’ ranking Alberta’s schools based mainly on the marks students receive on their provincial achievement tests.

The Portage College board of governors have cut $1.68 million from the college’s operating budget, partly through eliminating 19.92 full time equivalent positions.

Thirteen local students will continue onto the regional science fair in Edmonton after winning top honours at last Wednesday’s Northern Lights School Division science fair in the Devon Community Hall at the Bold Center.

Increased transparency and public input made the Lac La Biche County Council agenda last week, as the mostly new council prepare to tackle their first budget meetings. At issue is deciding if there can be too much public access.

Wandering River resident Trevor Bobocel has been charged with second-degree murder and committing an indignity to the body of his common-law partner, Roxanne Bigelow.

The Lac la Biche Dance Society, together with the Edmonton Ballet, are presenting an evening of wine, dance and music at the Bold Center’s Devon Room on March 25 that will celebrate the art of dance.

A trust fund for the Bobocel-Bigelow children has been established by family at ScotiaBank. Donations can be made to the Bobocel-Bigelow Trust Fund at the Lac La Biche Scotiabank branch. Please contribute.

A man has been charged with second degree as RCMP continue to investigate a homicide near Owl River. Police were called to investigate a "suspicious occurrence" at 8 a.m.

Despite increases in education funding announced in the 2011 provincial budget, the Northern Lights School Division is facing nearly $2 million in cutbacks for the upcoming school year if they want to maintain their operating surplus, division admini