Early on Aug. 4, Lac la Biche RCMP responded to a report of the head-on crash between two SUVs on Birch Grove Road.

On Saturday morning, crews recovered a body, saying only one person was on the boat at the time, police said.

Residents in Lac La Biche are now being allowed to return home following a period of heavy rainfall that led to flooding and mandatory evacuations on Sunday evening.

Lac La Biche and Thorhild counties, located northeast of Edmonton, declared states of local emergency after heavy rain triggered overland flooding.

Parts of Lac La Biche county were put under mandatory evacuation order Sunday night because of overland flooding.

A 66-year-old "civilian guard" has been charged in connection with a sexual assault that allegedly occurred at the northern Alberta RCMP detachment he was working in.

NDP health critic David Shepherd said the decision by the group of doctors will leave Lac La Biche with one family physician.

A young Alberta father and toddler have been identified as the two people found dead after a devastating house fire in the hamlet of Plamondon.

A woman was airlifted to hospital. Two other people were found dead inside the residence, RCMP said. 

RCMP believe alcohol may have been a factor in an ATV crash near Lac La Biche that sent a 23-year-old woman to hospital.