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The second annual Skijoring for MS: Riding Towards a Cure event will return to Cold Lake Ag Society’s Exhibition Park grounds this weekend on March 11.

The Legacy Award recipient who will join the late Victor Ringuette on the Lakeland Credit Union’s Wall of Distinction later this spring as the wall’s second honouree is Josephat Hamel, the founder of Hamel’s Meats and former Town of Bonnyville councillor.

Location, funding and purpose of homeless facility on public agenda

Hundreds of Bonnyville residents were transported to the tropical paradise of Hawaii as they gathered to support St. John's United Church during a Hawaiian Luau on Feb. 25.

About 40 cross-country skiers of all ages took part in a family fun day at Westcove on Saturday.

Seventeen-year-old Burhanuddin Yamani, has been named a finalist for the 2023 Loran Award - a scholarship valued at over $100,000 over four years.

Ten of 30 available acute care beds at the St. Paul hospital had been closed since June of 2021. Five of those beds have now been reopened as of January, 2023. 

Vera M. Welsh Elementary has been at top of school divison's priority list for 20 years.

The St. Paul Regional High School boys battled through three days of play to claim this year's ASAA curling championship.

Ron Dechaine, regional municipal energy manager, explained that back in 2020, carbon tax was rated at $30 a tonne, and has increased to $50 per tonne in 2022. Carbon tax will continue to increase every April 1.