Social gatherings are believed to be largely behind what resulted in a COVID-19 outbreak at Lakeland College's campus in Vermilion, Alta., according to the school's president.

Social gatherings are being blamed for an outbreak at an eastern Alberta college where dozens of students and staff have contracted the highly contagious B117 variant of the COVID-19 virus.

Lakeland College announced Tuesday that it has received a $4-million donation to establish and buy land for a bison herd at the east-central Alberta school.

Students at Lakeland College in Vermilion, Alta., study from the saddle. When they’re done, they find work on ranches, feedlots and remote cow camps. There’s just one college course in Canada ...

As the general manager for the student-managed farm, or SMF, Crone leads a 35-person team of “croppers” that runs a 1,000-acre outfit at Lakeland’s Vermilion campus.

Students at Lakeland College tried to break a world record outside Vermilion, Alta. on Friday for the world’s largest toboggan. The sled is over ten metres long and two metres wide.