Battlefords News-Optimist

Battlefords RCMP are reporting they made an arrest in connection to an armed robbery outside a business on the 900 block of 101 Street in North Battleford. RCMP had responded to the incident at around 4 am on June 14.

From the Top of the Pile

The last step before property taxes go out in the mail at City Hall, the mill rate and taxation bylaws, are finally before city council.

A new Holiday Inn and Suites hotel is potentially coming to the corner of 114th Street and Pioneer Avenue. Monday night, council voted to accept an offer by Gary Brar to sell the northwest portion of that parcel of land for an amount of $1 million.

The Battlefords North Stars have brought in a couple of new faces to their forward core for the 2017-18 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season.

Daily Report, June 13-14

A long-talked-about crackdown on vacant commercial buildings in the city was included among the mill rate and taxation bylaws introduced to council Monday night.

Surgical procedures were underway Tuesday morning at Lloydminster Hospital following a disruption in those services Monday after damage to the hospital’s air supply system from Friday night’s torrential downpour.

The threat of losing home-delivery by Canada Post is something North Battleford doesn’t want to experience again.

Neighbourly Advice According to Ed