Lac La Biche News

For years, the Hamlet of Lac La Biche has been home to a CN rail-switching yard. Located between The Bargain Shop and Rona, the yard is where cars are shunted from track to track – routinely blocking the hamlet’s two north-south streets.

Local educators and police say they are concerned Lac La Biche County Council might axe the community’s dedicated in-school RCMP officer program.

After 34 years as chief of Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Alphonse “Al” Lameman, 68, is retiring from politics. Lameman was first elected in 1971 when he was only 28 years old, making him one of the youngest chiefs in Canada at the time.

A mosaic of cultures is what Canada is known for, and Lac La Biche County is no exception.

Putting closed-circuit surveillance cameras along Main Street would help reduce crime, say police and a local councilllor.

Voyageurs 4 MacEwan Griffins 1 The sixth week of the 2011-12 ACAC hockey season had the Voyageurs playing a home and home series with the MacEwan Griffins. Last weekend the Voyageurs enjoyed a win and a tie against the Briercrest Clippers.

After years of planning and thousands of volunteer hours, the Catholic Church officially blessed the recently renovated St. Isidore Parish in Plamondon.

Lac La Biche County could soon be seeing more oil projects – and the revenue that comes with them – if regulators approve the new in situ projects. The Canadian Natural Resource Ltd.

Residents who rely on the Greyhound for transportation will have to search for alternatives after the bus company scrapped their daytime Lac La Biche service to and from Edmonton and Fort McMurray.