Battlefords News-Optimist

An assessment order has been made into the mental condition of a man charged with second-degree murder. Joshua Tucker appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court again Monday morning by closed-circuit TV.

From 1927 to ‘94, children across Canada wrote in to the pages of the Saskatoon-based agricultural newspaper, The Western Producer , to share their poems, stories and essays.

Patients and visitors, along with staff and physicians, will notice changes coming to both parking and building access at Battlefords Union Hospital effective Tuesday, July 3, 2018.

There are ample reasons why rural Saskatchewan will overwhelmingly support the Saskatchewan Party when the next election rolls around in 2020. Sometimes voting patterns can be a matter of habit.

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For a town our size, we are extraordinarily blessed with music. With a population of under 20,000 and with access only by boat or plane, we regularly host two international events.

What’s going on in your urban forest? You have probably noticed many of the elm trees in the city have been looking sickly lately. They have a thin canopy with sporadic leafing. Is it Dutch elm disease? No. An insect infestation? No.

In the heart of the one of our most beautiful areas of Saskatchewan in the Prince Albert National Park is Waskesiu Lake. In the Cree language, Waskesiu means “red deer” or elk. On the eastern shore of the lake is the town site of Waskesiu.

The carbon tax was front and centre in a presentation from provincial Justice Minister Don Morgan at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce Thursday morning.

Marty Moccasin has been found guilty of seven out of eight counts stemming from a Jan. 6 robbery on Mosquito First Nation.