Lac La Biche News

Concerns over the placement and maintenance of the Lac La Biche Mission boat launch and dock have caused several residents to question why this problem has been so often overlooked.

Syncrude and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) came together to host a series of tours throughout Alberta’s rich oil production plants, giving the Post an exclusive look behind closed doors and into the world of petroleum product

With advance polls from Plamondon and LacAlta Lodge still not reporting, Aurel Langevin has 793 votes to runner up Tom Lett's 706. Ray Ewaskiw came in with 129.

Tom Lett and Aurel Langevin were almost tied for voter support in the Lac La Biche polls.

Half an hour after the polls closed across Lac La Biche County, mayoral hopeful Aurel Langevin was leading the way with all of the rural voting centres reporting their unofficial results

8:45 P.M. Aurel Langevin is leading with 231 votes over Tom Lett's 162 and Ray Ewaskiw's 38 with six of the 13 polls to count, including all LLB stations and the advance ballot boxes.

Just over 100 votes separated Langevin and Lett in the Lac La Biche County mayoral election. With over 1500 total votes, the victory for Langevin was close right until the very end.

When the officials of the Lakeland Senior Games gathered in the Devon Room at the Bold Center to hand out gold, silver and bronze to the winners, they ran smack into the result of a design flaw built into the very walls of the Bold Center.

In the wake of another tragedy on Highway 881, Lac La Biche Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw and Drew Barnes, the MLA for Medicine Hat, began a road trip information tour last week, driving Highways 881 and 63.

This past Friday marked a last goodbye for many of the J.A. Williams graduating class of 2012, as the new alumni filled the school gym one last time to receive their hard-earned awards.