Battlefords News-Optimist

It is four more years for Premier Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party. Polls closed across Saskatchewan in the provincial election at 8 p.m. Monday and news organizations were quick to project a Saskatchewan Party majority government.

Garden Chat

Hanbidge on Horticulture

Lillian Edna MacDonald, (October 17, 1919 - March 25, 2016). It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lillian Edna Macdonald (nee: Jenkins).

I was really struggling to come up with a topic for this month’s News Watch column. But so many of the topics were boring — provincial politics, federal politics. And then there’s U.S.

A video has gone viral on the Internet of a major scuffle in the stands at the end of Tuesday's Wilkie Outlaws-Biggar Nationals SWHL championship game in Unity.

Trailing a series for the first time in the playoffs, the Battlefords North Stars hosted the Flin Flon Bombers for a shot at redemption. A night ago, it was the netminders who stole the show.

Linda’s Lines

Life As I Know It

Sharon Powell, Welcome Wagon Saskatchewan regional manager, came to the Battlefords recently to present Darren Buziak, owner of Humpty’s restaurant, with a plaque for 20 years service. Buziak was working at the restaurant when, on Feb.