Lac La Biche News

Northern Lights School Division is implementing the controversial restricted zero policy this year—a policy that has made some waves in Calgary and Edmonton with educators and parents alike.

Thanks to generous contributions by individuals and local businesses the Headstart Program is very close to purchasing a new bus.

Citizens filled the McGrane Theatre at Portage College last Thursday at 8 p.m. to hear the platform promises and back-and-forth debate from the three mayoral candidates running for the office on Lac La Biche County Council.

This year’s Hylo Harvest Festival went off without a hitch, and even the rain couldn’t keep the smiles off the faces of the men and women who were at the event. “What rain?” joked Terry Ekins, who was named the King of the Harvest Festival this year.

It was a beautiful day in the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, at Sacred Heart Church, where the annual pilgrimage is held on the shores of Beaver Lake. The Sunday sky was blue, the clouds slowly skudding by aspens turning golden amidst the green.

The Stuart Mac Pherson Library has an art exhibit currently running that is sure to twist your perspective on reality.

When the Venturer Scouts from Lac La Biche set off on their three-week trip through Europe, to see the sights and visit WWI and WWII war memorials and famous battlegrounds, little did they know they would reunite a long-lost war hero and his elderly

In the wake of ongoing patient issues with the newly parked dialysis bus, Lac La Biche MLA Shayne Saskiw has come out in support of establishing a renal care centre now, instead of in the distant future.

Portage College is launching a new program this fall, and, with so many opportunities in Alberta's oil sands, educators at Portage say the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Oper ator program will offer the skills to serve a specific niche in wha

Lac La Biche POST reporters Andrew Whitson and Kevin Penny will have the opportunity and the privilege to drive a special Ford Bronco through the mud pits in Plamondon over the August 17 weekend — but the two writers might have to dress up a little.