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News that the Alberta government is looking at legislation to create an independent police agency, could affect Lac La Biche’s Peace Officer Training Centre, says the program’s boss.

A 46-year-old man has been charged with breaking and entering, causing damage to property over $5,000 and being in possession of break-in instruments after police were called out to an oil lease site a few miles northwest of Bonnyville.

Judges bid Renu Mathew goodbye at the end of episode 6 of The Great Pottery Throw Down

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Wayne Gretzky and Pierre Karl Péladeau are among those who will offer eulogies at the state funeral for former prime minister Brian Mulroney on March 23.

One person was taken to hospital with injuries described as serious in a ten vehicle crash on a highway near Estevan.

Jesse Cardinal, executive director of Keepers of the Water, said regulation of the acids is urgent given the proposed plans to release tailings water into the Athabasca River after treatment.

In every region of Canada, pollsters found a majority of respondents agree Ottawa should introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies.

"Somebody crashed the gate and came into what is actually an active blasting zone with the avalanche control work going on.”

MD of Bonnyville Reeve Barry Kalinski is among the Canadians stranded in Haiti as the country is in a state of emergency.

Banff town councillor Hugh Pettigrew has been charged with sexual assault and will continue on council and other community duties, he said, while the case makes its way through the courts.