Battlefords News-Optimist

One is dead and three are injured following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 41 south of Aberdeen Thursday at about 6:15 p.m. Saskatoon RCMP responded and Aberdeen Fire and EMS were already on scene when officers arrived.

The SaskTel Men’s Northern Qualifier concluded Sunday at Northland Power Curling Centre. Four teams qualified from three events to move on to the SaskTel Tankard Men’s Provincial Curling Championship in Melville, beginning Jan. 29.

In the fall of 2019 a report was published in the online journal Science indicating that since 1970, the United States and Canada have lost nearly three billion birds and in general, bird species have declined by an alarming 29 per cent.

A group of band members on Sweetgrass First Nation staged a protest at their band’s administrative office this week over a housing project that went over budget. The protest was by five band members, all women, at the Sweetgrass band office Thursday.

Dear Editor Bringing soon-to-be tour buses on a 4,300-mile (five-and-a-half day) journey from the east coast to Juneau, Alaska proved to be an adventure.

There is another local improvement project in the works for the town of Battleford. This one would be on 3rd Avenue from 35th and 36th Street.

Linda’s Lines

RCMP are reporting a death on Onion Lake First Nation. They state in a news release that on Jan. 21, after 7 p.m., Onion Lake RCMP received a report of a deceased person off of Highway 797, in the Onion Lake Cree Nation.

Neighbourly Advice According to Ed

The provincial government has responded to the release this week of Freedom of Information emails on Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford by the NDP.