Battlefords News-Optimist

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Education has awarded the 2014 General Proficiency Awards to 14 students from Living Sky School Division.

The Platinum Anniversary Draw for $5,000 in Battleford Union Hospital Foundation's $100,000 Lottery took place Friday.

The North Battleford RCMP received approximately 35 calls for service between 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16 and 6 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17.

It's a sweltering 35 degrees as I pull up to a trailer housing the W.A.C. Bennett Dam visitor centre just outside Hudson's Hope, 100 kilometres west of Fort St. John. I'm here to see B.C.'s largest hydro dam first-hand.

Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction on 100th Street from 17th Avenue up to about the CJNB radio station in North Battleford today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to allow crews to drill test holes.

Having gone through a spring provincial election, Ontario is once again in election mode - this time at the municipal level - with a lot of attention focusing on Toronto.

It's a new look all-around for the Battlefords North Stars heading into the 2014-15 season.

Don Burnstick's distinctive brand of First Nation comedy is coming back to the Battlefords Sept. 25. The difference this time is that Burnstick is playing at the new Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts for the first time.

We were wandering through WalMart the other day when something caught my eye. There, on an ever-present rotating spindle, were the watches.

The unmarked graves project at the city cemetery in North Battleford is now completed. Members of North Battleford Royal Canadian Legion Branch No.