Opinion

Newsroom and community visit 33 years after working at the Lac La Biche POST

Thomas Jefferson famously said that if he had to choose between having government but no newspapers or newspapers with no government, he would choose the latter.

Now that we’re in the thick of spring and those, lazy, hazy days of summer are fast approaching, it’s time to get out of the house and explore our beautiful natural surroundings.

There were pansies on the table at last week’s tea at Elk Point Municipal Library, as there has been virtually every May for decades.

Premier David Eby's standoff with Facebook over local news access amid wildfires reveals a controversial deal that may impact public safety in British Columbia

Corrina Dickens is the newest edition to the Bonnyville Nouvelle/Lakeland This Week/LakelandToday.ca.

Bill 20 resembles how a unitary system of government works, as it provides the provincial government the unilateral power to dismiss locally elected officials and override local bylaws.

Let it rain. After months of escalating warnings about the dry, dry weather creating dry, dry conditions across the province — and in particular across the Lakeland’s agricultural sector and forests — days of rainfall are welcome.

Last Thursday, when one of our granddaughters was expressing her impatience to get out and get gardening, I told her about a session I attended many years ago at the Alberta Library Conference in Jasper, when author and garden expert Lois Hole urged