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STARS takes stabbing victim sent to Edmonton hospital

RCMP Emergency Response Team and Major Crimes involved with investigation

While staffing concerns were an issue one year ago, school divisions have planned ahead and found ways to deal with the sometimes difficult task of finding educational and support staff.

It was all glitz and glam at the Celebrity Gala held on Friday to raise needed funds for the construction of the Strathcona Performing Arts Centre to be built in Bonnyville.

Students at County schools going into the 2023-2024 school year include newcomers to the community as well as temporary evacuees from the Northwest Territories

A traffic stop within the MD of Bonnyville carried out by RCMP has led to the arrest of a Cold Lake man and the confiscation of illicit drugs that police believe would have been otherwise trafficked.

Lac La Biche County Libraries to host two-hour discussion group on the last Monday of each month starting in September.

City of Cold Lake councillors found themselves immersed in a discussion on the act of giving during the Aug. 22 council meeting.

Raising a bar setting $25,870 during the The Dragonfly Centre's first annual Golf Charity Tournament, organizers are looking forward to growing the annual event next summer with the support of the community.

Despite receiving a lot of traction online and within the community, frontline workers say there is no basis to the notion that unhoused individuals are being bussed into Bonnyville from distant communities. The increase in homelessness and those accessing services for basic needs comes down to the underlying issues, say frontline workers.