Lac La Biche News

A night outdoors is hoped to bring awareness to the plight of the area's homeless and less fortunate.

Where to go, what to see .. lots of options for the March 8 & 9 Lac La Biche powerplay on ice.

Hundreds of students from Lac La Biche filled the Bold Center Wednesday to hear presentations on bullying from Alberta Premier Alison Redford, 14-year-old anti-bullying activist Mackenzie Murphy and others.

Toby, the title character in several top-selling books by local author Charmaine Hammond was a special guest at the Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day anti-bullying event at the Bold Center.

More than 600 area students listened to the words of Tara Murphy in the Bold Center on Feb. 26 at the Pink Shirt Day to bring awareness to anti-bullying.

One in eight Alberta women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, making the disease the second most common cancer for women in the province after lung cancer.

Lac La Biche County officials have released the severance payout for the CAO that councillors officially fired this week. Roy Brideau, who arrived in Lac La Biche in early 2012 will receive $215,000 in severance pay.

It was a lovely day on the pond at Alexander Hamilton Park in Lac La Biche for Family Day Feb. 17. Between skating, ice fishing, tobogganing and snowshoeing, there was a whole lot of winter fun on offer.

A STARS helicopter received assistance with its landing behind Lac La Biche's W.J. Cadzow Hospital just after midnight on Wednesday, February 19. The machine was called in to quickly transport a patient to an Edmonton hospital. To see and hear the helicopter's arrival, click on our video link.