Lac la Biche News

David Keast has been announced as the the new president and CEO of Great Plains College.

A state of emergency has been lifted in east-central Alberta where a fire had forced 12 families from their homes.

A local state of emergency near Bonnyville caused by an out-of-control wildfire has been lifted, the municipal district of Bonnyville said Thursday.

Wildfire information officer Geoffrey Driscoll with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development says the extra manpower will go to fight a fire about 15 kilometres north of Bonnyville.

RCMP from Bonnyville say they were called to a rural oil rig site, west of La Corey, at 4:00 am last Saturday.

An adult male from the Lac La Biche area was killed in the early morning hours of May 12, apparently because of an incident on a rural oil rig site, according to an RCMP press release.

The Town of Taber is going to be on the search for a new chief administrative officer.

The first pipeline expansion will add 80 kilometres worth of 42 inch thick pipeline to the pipelines conneccting the Foster Creek Junction to a pump station near LaCorey.

Matthew Harrison, a spokesman for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, also said that the municipality is projecting tax losses of $9.2 million a year due to the loss of land.

The new Wildrose Party MLA for Lac La Biche-St. Paul, Shayne Saskiw, said that he will move to change the Memorandum of Understanding for the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range deal.

Despite Leskiw's re-election, Isley said he still believed the provincial government could take "a hard second look" at the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range deal.

A seventh person has now died after a fiery head-on crash Friday on Highway 63 near Boyle, Alta., RCMP say.