Battlefords News-Optimist

A local business is showcasing "sexy local women in sport" in a fundraising initiative for the Credit Union CUPlex. Fourteen local women will be featured in a 2011 calendar with all proceeds going to the CUPlex.

Two men will learn their fate Dec. 3h in connection to the wide-ranging Mosquito First Nation treaty land entitlement case.

Comment and History from a Prairie Perspective

North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior girls basketball team placed fourth at provincials last season with a team, which only graduated a few players.

No injuries have been reported following a motor vehicle accident on 10th Avenue and 106th Street on Tuesday. Two vehicles were involved in the collision and extensive damage to both vehicles was reported.

You'd know him if you saw him. He's the quiet guy with the terminal Fred Flintstone five o'clock shadow and the smooth left uppercut.

It was an opportunity to be at the .500 mark heading into December, but instead the Battlefords North Stars lost in Yorkton and Melville Tuesday and Wednesday and fell to 13-17-1-1.

Nominations have closed in the race for the eight open seats on the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Eleven candidates are running for the positions including three incumbents seeking re-election.

Ed, my neighbor next door, is emotionally tough. He claims when he was a kid, he shed no tears when Bambi's mother was shot in the movie.

Just as the high school volleyball season comes to an end, the basketball season begins. The John Paul II Collegiate senior girls' basketball team kicked off the season with their home tournament Friday and Saturday.