Battlefords News-Optimist

A 31-year-old Calgary man remains in custody after being charged with 16 criminal charges after leading members of Northwest RCMP detachments on a 120-kilometre pursuit.

The Dekker Centre for the Performing has announced its fall season, which begins Sept. 19 with the Dylan Thomas Show.

Rodney Rhinehart from Maidstone will be inducted into the individual category of the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, as a player and builder, Aug. 17.

Thirteen members of River's Edge Quilters rallied together in July to sew quilt tops for people affected by the flood in Calgary and southern Alberta. Carol Johnson shared the quilting technique for sewing jelly roll race quilt tops.

On a Thursday in August it was not expected that there would be a big turnout for New Horizons golfing, and there wasn't. Only 29 came to play and they did not do all that well, as the best score of the bunch was only 38.

A new provincial bill set to take effect in the fall will change bargaining procedures for firefighters in North Battleford and could also give them the right to strike.

Maymont's Brayden Harris and his Warman Panthers teammates captured a silver medal at last weekend's U14 Western Canadian Softball Championship in Prince Albert.

The Battlefords North Stars will be playing in a new division for the 2013-14 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season, although the teams aren't changing.

Two North Battleford residents are facing multiple drug related charges after a raid on a house in the 1400 block of 111th Street May 23. Battlefords Municipal GIS unit of the RCMP executed a CDSA search warrant there at 11 a.m.

The move to electronic record keeping was discussed by the board of North Saskatchewan River Municipal Health Holdings at a regular meeting July.