Battlefords News-Optimist

On a beautiful, sunny day Monday, 27 golfers came out for New Horizons after being rained out Sept. 8. John Chomyn, Hank Nickel, Allie Raycraft and Dave Page finished first with a 1-over 37.

It's been 40 years since the first women officers began training for the RCMP.

I am in my usual state of panic over what is going on in other parts of the world these days. But my main concern isn't ISIS, or Ukraine, or the Ebola virus or any of that. Instead it's about Scotland.

Free trade is not new. Trade barriers have, in fact, been declining ever since economist David Ricardo, in 1821, argued in favour of countries producing and exporting goods in which they had a comparative advantage.

I had a deep and meaningful conversation with an (almost) six year old one afternoon.

Not only are we a society that counts on technology to turn our lights on and off, ensure the roast is cooked to perfection and notify us of any and every appointment, we've also managed to neatly divide life's greatest challenges into packages of ti

North Battleford RCMP responded to about 34 calls for service between 6 a.m. Monday, Sept. 15 and 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16.

The former superintendent of human resources for the Northwest School Division is the new director of education for Light of Christ Catholic School Division.

Your children are aiming at college or university and you're aiming at retirement. That's not so unusual these days, as more and more parents have chosen to delay marriage and children until they (and their finances) were more "mature.

The growing role of women in the workforce arguably qualifies as the most consequential socio-economic development of the past 50 years. As more women have entered the formal labour market, the productive capacity of our economy has been augmented.