Battlefords News-Optimist

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a 33-year-old man wanted on several criminal code offences relating to a 15-month long human trafficking investigation by the Saskatoon Police VICE and Human Trafficking Unit.

Vaccines Delivered An additional 14,351 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 693,625.

The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit has charged a Moosomin man with two child pornography offences following an investigation into the online accessing and transmitting of child pornography through a popular online social media applicat

All seven casinos in the province are set to open to the public on June 20.

Two Saskatchewan First Nations will be working with the province to enforce the First Nations’ laws on their reserves. The pilot project involves Whitecap Dakota First Nation and Muskoday First Nation and is expected to get underway this September.

I’m proud of where I come from’

Battlefords RCMP responded to 445 calls for service from Wednesday, May 19 to Tuesday May 25. These included 15 missing persons reported, 14 assaults, and six break and enters.

What have you done during this COVID-19 pandemic? Sophie Parkinson, age 93 years, has been having her own, one-woman quilting bee, making lap quilts for long-term care residents to use on their wheelchairs.

Unity News

A man arrested in a dramatic takedown by an RCMP tactical unit flown in two CH-146 Griffon helicopters to an isolated cabin to rescue a girl, is headed to trial.