Battlefords News-Optimist

Yorkton This Week In Yorkton Provincial Court on Sept.19, a youth charged in the murder of Colin Focht has plead not guilty. The seventeen-year-old, who cannot be named due to his age, has elected a trial with judge alone in Court of Queen’s Bench.

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Yesterday, SaskPower announced that its net metering program was drawing close to the 16-megwatt cap publicly announced in November 2018.

CNW - Unifor members at four more Crown corporations have voted overwhelmingly to strike if necessary, bringing the province-wide total to seven.

Canadian country artist Aaron Pritchett is bringing his “Out on the Town” tour to the Battlefords later this month. Pritchett is the headliner on Sept. 29 at the Gold Eagle Casino in North Battleford.

The end of a long regulatory process is finally in sight for North Battleford-based Envirosafe Chemicals Canada.

Unity News

Prayers and deepest thoughts goes out to the Frerichs family of Turtleford and to the Neilson family of the Battlefords on the recent passing of Marion Frerichs (nee Neilson) on Aug. 29 at the age of 66 at the Battlefords Union Hospital.

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Christine Wahobin loved her grandmother, but the relationship wasn’t typical. Mary Wahoben, who passed away in 2008, was hereditary chief of Lean Man band, one part of Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head-Lean Man First Nation.