Battlefords News-Optimist

Gardeners evolve over time. If you think about your gardening journey, I bet the plants you are growing now aren't the ones you started out with.

North Battleford RCMP received more than40 calls for service between 6 a.m. Friday, July 4 and 6 a.m.

More 60 calls for service/occurrences were reported to North Battleford RCMP over a 48-hour period from 6 a.m. Saturday, July 5 to 6 a.m. Monday, July 7.

The past week was hot. My fat little body was not liking that weather. Today, Saturday, it is spitting and trying to rain. I have a rain marked for July 8 and 9, sometimes it comes a day or two early.

The Canadian Red Cross and Saskatchewan credit unions have announced cash donations to help Saskatchewan residents devastated by recent disasters will be accepted at participating Saskatchewan credit unions from July 4-25.

The case against Adelia Kaminsky returns to provincial court in August. Kaminsky's matters came up in court for the first time Monday afternoon. The case has been adjourned to Aug. 12, at 10 a.m.

When you sift through the coach-speak and clichés after a game like the Saskatchewan Roughriders' 48-15 blowout loss to the Argonauts in Toronto Saturday, somewhere in the middle you will find the truth.

The backlog in transporting grain on the railroads was a factor in the cooling down the performance of North West Terminal Ltd. for the first six months of operations in 2013-14.

For our latest photo galleries, including Canada Day at the Fort and roller derby action, click community/photo galleries.

On July 6, 2014 at approximately 7 a.m 58-year-old Wally Giesbrecht of Elrose left a local hotel on the Highway 16 Bypass in North Battleford to go for a walk.