Battlefords News-Optimist

Saskatchewan residents will soon have access to a brand new emergency department.

One of two individuals charged with the first-degree murder of 61-year-old Mark Douglas Jonson in North Battleford made a brief appearance Wednesday in provincial court.

Violence surrounding the Tiki Laverdiere murder case continues at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre.

Today at 1:23 p.m., RCMP officers from the Wadena Detachment were called to a residence on the Fishing Lake First Nation. A caller reported to police that an adult male was causing a disturbance outside a residence and was armed with a weapon.

Issues concerning the oil and gas sector were front and centre at a presentation Monday at noon at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce.

Light of Christ Catholic Schools staff is returning again for Faith Development day. The event is to feature singer Sarah Hart. Hart is originally from Ohio and she's now based in Nashville.

Submitted The Battlefords Pee Wee Beavers hosted the 13 U AA Tier 3 Provincial Championships on the weekend of July 26-28 in North Battleford.

It was a Cinderella finish for the underdog Saskatchewan Rattlers on the weekend as they captured the inaugural title of the Canadian Elite Basketball League.

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan will begin to release the first digitized copies of the province’s community newspapers from 1939 to 1945 on the Saskatchewan Histori

Lieutenant Governor Russ Mirasty will attend the celebrations commemorating the 130th anniversary of the Treaty 6 adhesion on Aug. 28 at Molanosa (Kiskahikanisihk) at the north end of Montreal Lake, where the adhesion was signed in 1889.