Battlefords News-Optimist

Three people arrested after a woman was kidnapped and forcibly confined remain in custody.

Two men are making the trip of a lifetime. Derwin Clarke from Balzac Alt. and Joe Alexander from Virden Man., are traveling from Eastend, Sask. to Virden, Man. by horse drawn carriage.

One individual is facing several charges after an investigation by the Regina Police Service found more than $38,000 worth of stolen property.

A Saskatoon woman was given 25 hours of community service for her part in a string of robberies across Central Saskatchewan.

A trial for a man charged in two separate incidents including assault with a weapon and murder in the death of 27-year-old Preston Thomas is scheduled to start in Saskatoon Provincial Court Wednesday.

The Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Racing season continued this week in Lloydminster with the North American Chuckwagon Championship. It is the third stop on the CPCA schedule in 2021.

This week saw the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League wrap up their regular season, with playoffs still to come. It was a shortened season in 2021, with each team in the league scheduled to play 11 games.

On Jan. 28, the Saskatchewan RCMP’s North District Management Team received information leading them to conduct a Canadian Firearms Registry check on an officer serving at the Waskesiu RCMP Detachment.

Vaccines Reported An additional 2,419 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 1,307,065.

It may not be the full Northwest Territorial Days that people are used to, but the Battlefords Ag Society is a go for a number of events in mid-August.