Battlefords News-Optimist

The postseason is under way in the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League and there have already been a few surprises involving the Battlefords-based teams.

If you think your younger kids will soon be vaccinated against COVID-19, guess again.

Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand knows the dark past caused by residential schools in Canada’s history, a heartbreaking past where thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families so they could be assimilated to west

The Saskatchewan NDP are calling on the provincial government to abandon their possible Crown rebranding project and instead reopen the utility payment deferral program offered to Crown customers during the pandemic.

A Prince Albert man charged with second-degree murder in the death of Natasha Ross appeared in court today after he was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant.

North Battleford city council approved a number of bylaws connected to setting the 2021 mill rates at their meeting Monday. The bylaw to establish mill rate factors passed in three readings.

Bresaylor Happenings

The city of North Battleford’s intention to convert the city’s existing water meters into Advanced Metre Infrastructure (AMI) meters hit a snag recently with one property.

Vaccines Reported An additional 2,636 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 1,353,307.

On track for a record year: fire chief