Battlefords News-Optimist

As the Battlefords North Stars moved a game over .500, they held the seventh spot in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Source Embroidery Power Rankings.

December begins with the moon just past full phase. We get a few rapid close calls Dec. 9 to 12 - the star Spica is within a degree (an occultation in the Southern Hemisphere) Dec.

PALMER: Mr. Stanley Palmer of rural North Battleford passed away at Battlefords River Heights Lodge, Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Stan was born on January 4, 1921 - the second son to Ernest and Eliza Palmer.

The Chapel Gallery is proud to present Songs of Joy and Peace with Steve Palmer Friday, Dec. 7.

The 2008-09 recession prompted many Baby Boomer entrepreneurs to delay their retirement plans and stay in business longer than anticipated, according to a new report, Passing on the Business to the Next Generation, based on survey data from the Canad

The Battleford AAA Sharks hosted Swift Current on the weekend and had some stellar goaltending and defence, but the offence couldn't execute.

ROBERTS: Harvey Reginald Roberts, resident of Meota, SK, passed away peacefully Friday, November 23, 2012 at the Battlefords Union Hospital with his wife Dorothy and daughter Lanette at his side.

The three newest members of North Battleford city council are now much more informed about the facilities and equipment that keeps the community moving.

Active Healthy Kids Canada has released a position statement on active video games. also known as "exergames.

As we all learned in social studies class, democracy is the worst political system, except all the others. I wouldn't argue otherwise, but I would say that part of what makes democracy such a terrible system are voters themselves.