Battlefords News-Optimist

In the year Manitoba was to celebrate a century and a half since joining Confederation, a Métis group is renewing the call to absolve Louis Riel of the alleged crime of high treason that led to his hanging in 1885.

It looks as if senior hockey could be back playing in the Battlefords in another month. At a Battleford town council Monday, Councillor Kevin Russell was asked about what was happening with the Battlefords Beaver Blues senior team.

This morning, on Nov. 3, at approximately 2 a.m., Big River RCMP received the report of two suspicious vehicles attempting to enter the community of the Big River First Nation.

With new cases of COVID-19 still high throughout the province, some new public health orders were announced by the province on Tuesday afternoon to try and curb the spread.

There are 81 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on November 3, 2020, bringing the provincial total to date to 3,373 cases.

Sentencing scheduled on Nov. 2 in Lloydminster Provincial Court for an Onion Lake man arrested by the North Battleford RCMP gang unit was adjourned.

A Biggar man arrested by the RCMP Gang Task Force was scheduled to enter a plea in North Battleford Provincial Court Nov. 2 but the matter was adjourned.

A bail hearing for a man facing child porn charges didn’t proceed in Estevan Provincial Court Nov. 2. Kyle Mansil Fiddler, 30, has been in custody since his arrest by the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) on Oct. 21.

Dear Editor Once upon a time, there were three spruce trees. They swayed in the breeze morning noon and night. Birds loved these trees. They were the birds’ home. There were all kinds of birds.

As testing for COVID-19 continues to increase in Saskatchewan, so does the need for health-care professionals who communicate test results.