Battlefords News-Optimist

$15,751 to Floyd Favel for two projects

This past Saturday, NBCHS senior girls’ basketball team won gold at the Mauraders Invitational Tournament in Saskatoon. The gold medal game saw the Vikings play Aden Bowman Bears. They came away with a score 67-40.

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Two organizations from the Battlefords were awarded grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board at the recent deadlines, totaling $20,000.

Rain, rain, go away. Don’t come back for another day, or week; by the way, given the forecast, at least a couple more weeks would be great.

A man charged in connection to a violent home invasion north of Edam in January 2018 appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court Jan. 31 via CCTV from Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre.

It’s a new year, a new decade, so lets share some thoughts on ways to become more sustainable — permaculture for example. It was in the 1970s that this term was coined and simply means permanent agriculture.

Tiki Laverdiere homicide

Turtleford RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a trailer stolen from a rural location in the RM of Frenchman Butte.

A 32-year-old woman from Ahtahkakoop First Nation is facing charges after a vehicle stop on Big River First Nation at about 1:30 a.m. Jan. 31. Big River RCMP report the vehicle fled an initial stop attempt, but was stopped again soon afterward.