Battlefords News-Optimist

It was a "big honkin' win" for the Sask Party across the Northwest region, with Jeremy Cockrill winning the Battlefords to complete a clean sweep of the region for the governing party.

In Cut Knife-Turtleford, with 49 of 52 polls reporting, Ryan Domotor of the Sask Party has taken the majority of votes with 4,418. Matt Fedler of the NDP has 732 votes. The Buffalo Party with Richard Nelson is third with514.

A Saskatchewan man was acquitted on numerous weapons charges after a judge ruled the RCMP wrongfully searched his home. Judge M.T. Beaton, Saskatchewan Associate Chief Judge, excluded evidence of 31 firearms seized by police at the home of Perry K.

The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce is planning to host the North Battleford mayoralty forum on Oct. 27. The event will be at Western Development Museum at 6 p.m., but due to COVID-19 it will be closed to the public.

There are 54 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on October 26, 2020, bringing the total to 2,783 cases.

With an election that has been different in many ways due to COVID-19 restrictions, it was notable for the leaders of both the Saskatchewan Party and New Democratic Party not making many forays into rural Saskatchewan.

A Saskatoon man accused of distributing and making child porn appeared in court Oct. 21 and the matter was adjourned.

When Quebec Premier Francois Legault floated the notion of herd immunity for COVID-19 in April of this year, epidemiologists across the country were flabbergasted.

More than three-in-five likely voters in the province approve of the way Premier Scott Moe has handled his duties The Saskatchewan Party remains ahead of all challengers in the Prairie Province’s election, a new Research Co. poll has found.

Submitted Patrick McNally, candidate for the Saskatchewan Green party in the Cut Knife-Turtleford constituency, grew up on a farm near Rowatt, south of Regina.