Lac La Biche News

Defeated local MLA Ray Danyluk will be walking away from his 11 years in the public eye with over half a million dollars in severance pay – but new provincial politicians won’t be getting nearly as big a golden handshake if new recommendations for ML

Th In the week since the provincial election, many local residents have voiced concerns over Wildrose MLA–elect Shayne Saskiw’s representation as a member of the official opposition, despite a very large Conservative majority.

Good Friday proved busy for the Boyle Integrated Traffic Services Unit On Friday, April 6, 2012, at approximately 10:15 P.M., members of the Boyle Integrated Traffic Services Unit conducted an Alberta Checkstop on Highway 858 near Plamondon.

Seven people are dead and two others are in hospital after a head-on collision north of Wandering River last Friday that locals are calling “horrific.

Th A group of Portage College students are disappointed after the Natural Resource Technician diploma program (NRT2) was changed.

After representing the Lac La Biche-St.Paul-Two Hills riding for 11 years, Progressive Con­servative politician Ray Danyluk was unseated by Wildrose’s Shayne Sas­kiw on the provincial election April 23.

The Plamondon and Lac La Biche taekwondo clubs recently raised more than $6,000 for the local women’s shelter. The two clubs raised the money as part of their second annual Break for Hope fundraiser.

Eleven years in provincial politics, including two terms as a minister of the Progressive Conservative caucus, has taught Ray Danyluk a thing or two about sound-bites. In his concession speech on Monday night, the Tory veteran easily outshone incoming rookie Wildrose politician Shayne Saskiw, who was trying out his first victory speech. Here's what they had to say:

The Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills constituency has seen the most change in the provincial election, and the entire northeast of Alberta is also showing a new political landscape after Monday night's vote.

It came down to the last trickling numbers from the very last of the polls, and three hours after the last ballot was cast on election night, Wildrose candidate Shayne Saskiw seems to have dethroned three-term PC candidate Ray Danyluk.