Battlefords News-Optimist

Pass, shoot, score, defend and hit. Those are the basic skills any young hockey player looks to develop, but hitting won't be on the list for much longer.

They came into Sunday night's 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup Championship game having lost only 12 times in 89 games, and the Halifax Mooseheads refused to leave with any more. "We couldn't have asked for a better season.

A Prince Albert man is facing multiple charges after a crash in a construction zone Thursday, on Highway 40, three kilometres south of Parkside.

Three vehicles were involved in a crash at the intersection of 8th Avenue and 113th Street in North Battleford Friday at just before 5 p.m.

A 24-year-old man was sent to hospital in critical condition following a shooting Saturday morning in North Battleford. According to a news release from the RCMP, the shooting happened prior to 10 a.m.

St. Mary's Community School Essential Skills for the Workplace Program, North Battleford has been awarded one of six Saskatchewan Literacy Awards of Merit for its encouragement of lifelong and life wide learning.

The recipient of the 2013 Maroniuk/Marcoux Scholarship Award is Dray Souchotte, Lloydminster, AB. He will be presented with this Scholarship Award at the 29th Annual Induction of the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, August 17.

The Battlefords North Stars have announced Brody Luhning has committed to join the University of Regina Cougars for the 2013-14 season. The Cougars are members of the Canada West Universities Athletic Association and the CIS.

Two Northwest communities are among 15 that will receive new child care space funding from the government of Saskatchewan.

Most great high school athletes enjoy substantial success, but few can compare to the impressive post-secondary career of Calvin Perpeljuk.