Cold Lake News

It's official; Mayor Johnnie Doonanco of the Village of Glendon agrees with Reeve Ed Rondeau, Mayor Ernie Isley and Mayor Craig Copeland.

Paul Monaghan, left, of the Co-Operative Group bank in Manchester, England, shakes hands with Beaver Lake Cree Nation Chief Al Lameman at the Beaver Lake powwow on Friday.

Edmonton Centre MP and former fighter pilot Laurie Hawn, right, trains with Chief Warrant officer Keith James in St.

A turkey vulture like the one above was recently spotted in the Spirit River area.

At the turn of the 20th century, east central Alberta enjoyed its highest influx of Ukrainian settlers.

A crowd of about 6,000 aviation buffs gathered at Boundary Bay Airport for the 5th annual Boundary Bay Air Show on Saturday .

Ita s all about oil and the land that sits on top of it. Cold Lake is surrounded by land that belongs to someone else.

Cold Lake council voted Monday to postpone action on dissolving the town for 50 days pending negotiations with Bonnyville Municipal District and other neighbouring municipalities to draft a new tax-sharing formula.

Chipman Mayor Jim Palmer stands at a development site in his town. Residents fed up with high taxes are seeking to dissolve the municipality and join the County of Lamont.

Fly by - A Canadian Forces CF-18 is scheduled to take part in the 5th annual Boundary Bay Air Show Saturday .

If you could go back in time to 1885 you might be surprised to discover that the Lakeland area was once the scene of several important battles that affected the lives of settlers and native societies on both sides of the Alberta, Saskatchewan border.

Canadian astronaut Julie Payette, inset, had the idea of sending Canadian beef jerky into space aboard the shuttle Endeavour, main photo.

The bombs went off in Watson Lake this week, when staff from the Department of National Defence arrived in the town on the B.C./Yukon border to inspect a pair of Second World War explosive devices.

Canadian veteran Denis Ouellette donned his military medals for the first time in eight years this week, calling a trip to European battle sites a "rite of passage" in healing his psychological war wounds.

Check out the fighter jets from all over the world on display at Exercise Maple Flag at CFB Cold Lake.

Debbie Sullivan is a Community Health Nurse working for Gitsegukla Health Programs and Services.

At 27,000 feet, simultaneously refuelling two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets is a matter of inches.

Twelve kilometres from the northern Alberta town of Cold Lake, a small Metis community is opening its land to industrial oil processing, in hopes the novel partnership will help fund construction of more homes and sewers.

APPROXIMATELY HALF of the 56 cadets in the local 747 Air Cadet Squadron are going to training courses in Alberta and B.C. this summer.

It may look like a giant grey whale with wings, but Canada's newest and largest cargo hauling aircraft is remarkably nimble, fun to fly and a real workhorse for moving military vehicles and equipment around the world.