Battlefords News-Optimist

The week of March 27 to 30 at the legislature was dominated by debate over the fallout from the provincial budget the previous week.

Deciding to push ahead with further spending increases and hope for revenues to fill the budget gap represents a failure to learn from the past

Dear Editor This message in regards to the 60 per cent decrease of funds to the regional library systems of Saskatchewan.

It assumes government is the agent of change and social stability for the middle class - the same philosophy that's wrongly guided most spending for decades

The Battlefords Ministerial Association is hosting the Battlefords Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast Saturday, April 8, 8:30 am at Living Faith Chapel, North Battleford. Your attendance will show your support of our mayors, organizers say in a press release.

To help address the challenges of waste management and recycling within the rural and small urban municipalities of the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve Regional Planning District, Maymont and four municipalities met together to examine the potential

After an early end to his tenure with the Southern Professional Hockey League's Pensacola Ice Flyers last month, Kevin Hasselberg has found a new home for the 2017-18 season.

The Annual General Meeting of the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Association Inc. will be held Sunday, April 9, 2017, at the museum on 292 22nd Street West in Battleford at 1 p.m.

Battlefords RCMP responded to 65 calls for service between 6 a.m. Wednesday, March 29 and 6 a.m. Thursday, March 30. Wednesday, March 29 8:07 a.m. - Report of stolen white 2012 Honda CRV from the 1700 block of 93 st. North Battleford 8:08 a.m.

RCMP are on the lookout for a 34-year Caucasian male in connection to an incident on Sweetgrass First Nation early Thursday morning. According to police, on March 30 at 3:48 a.m.