Lac La Biche News

Plans by a local business owner to expand his propane retail outlet with a large 4,816 cubic-foot tank to be situated near three schools and within a few hundred feet of a fast-food restaurant and the Al-kareem Mosque have been challenged by Lac La B

Lac La Biche County is spearheading a $93,000 promotion and awareness campaign to address the impact the closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport will have on medical air services.

Watch a couple of minutes of talented fiddling. The performers were at a talent show at the Bold Center on Nov. 12 as part of the first annual Métis Week.

Fronted by Calgary based husband and wife musicians Lynae and Dennis Dufresne, the alternative county band PEAR will be one of the headliners at the Dec.

Who will promote the area when the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31? Lac La Biche County Council is currently undecided about whether to extend their tourism and marketing contract – which expires at the end of the year – with Community Futures.

After seven years serving the community, Elizabeth “Kami” Lucas has decided it’s time to leave her job as Victim Services program coordinator to let some fresh energy come in.

Each year, the Scouts sell Halloween insurance to the community to help raise money for special events, trips or badges they intend to earn and to help clean up any Halloween trickery.

Honest polling – or shady tactics? Those are the questions being asked of the Wildrose Party after a telephone “push-poll” they conducted was accused of being unfairly tailored to smearing premier-designate Alison Redford.

A Lac La Biche teen pled guilty to the Dec. 21, 2009 second-degree murder of 36-year-old blind man Hector Cardinal. The Crown Prosecutor’s Office of St.

Minister of Finance Ron Liepert and Treasury Board president Doug Horner were at the Bold Center last Tuesday evening to talk to invited community members about Alberta’s 2012 budget.