Lac La Biche News

The fourth annual Soccer Fest, which is put on by Lac La Biche FC, took place at the Bold Centre sports fields on May 10.

For Mental Health Week, which ran from May 5-11, Lac La Biche County FCSS placed free pins at different locations throughout the municipality for people to wear to raise awareness about mental health.

The Plamondon Mustangs U18 girls' softball team handed the Lac La Biche Dodgers a 18-16 defeat during a meeting between the two teams on May 7 at the Bold Centre ball diamonds in Lac La Biche.

Village of Boyle residents and Athabasca County residents on Township Road 642 and Range Road 195 have been given the green light to return home this morning, May 8, after they were asked to evacuate their homes when fire threatened their community.

May 5 was National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People, also known as Red Dress Day.

Reception centre is open to provide assistance between 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Lac La Biche County has opened an evacuation centre for evacuees from Athabasca County who have been directed to leave their homes as a wildfire continues to burn out of control south of Boyle, between Boyle Fishpond and the Ellscott turnoff.

The annual event, which is hosted by Lac La Biche FC, brings young soccer players together from across the Lakeland Region to compete against each other and work on their skills on the pitch.

The event took place at Lac La Biche's Alexander Hamilton Park on the evening of May 1.

LAC LA BICHE - While the overall tax bill in Lac La Biche will be going up, the mill rate is staying the same after Lac La Biche County council passed all three readings of its 2025 tax rate by law at the April 29 meeting.