Lac La Biche News

Year after year, the Pow Wow Days fish derby has been getting shorter, smaller, and more regulated. And according to volunteers and officials, that’s definitely for the best.

Lac La Biche County approached consulting firm Stewart Weir to help them create a growth plan for Plamondon, and last Wednesday night was the first public input session in the process.

ocal First Nations bands were recently given a favourable verdict in their federal case to protect Alberta ’s threatened woodland caribou.

Every year around this time, a little bit of magic comes to the dirt lot behind the ball diamonds.

A mighty competitor is stepping into the already crowded ring to battle for Lac La Biche’s restaurant business. Construction started last week on the Boston Pizza that will be setting up shop in the BCMI parking lot just west of town.

The results are in: two-thirds of people surveyed last month in the hamlet of Lac La Biche want an improved recycling program. However, only one in five households are actually using Lac La Biche’s current recycling pickup service.

Residents of Lac La Biche can put in their two cents on the Bold Center High School in public consultations that will take place throughout the region this month.

The proposal for the Hylo regional landfill is starting to look more like a ping-pong match than a project application. First, the Lac La Biche County files an application for a landfill at Hylo on May 12, 2010.

In a meeting last Tuesday, county council expressed an interest in following Fort McMurray’s ban on single-use plastic bags, which are commonly used in grocery stores.

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