Battlefords News-Optimist

It was Battleford town council’s turn to hear from the new co-ordinator for the Battlefords Regional Community Coalition this week. Tom Howard provided an update on what was happening with the coalition at their council meeting Monday.

Submitted Indigenous, environmental, and agricultural organizations throughout Saskatchewan have come together to call on the provincial government to halt the sale of treaty land to private owners.

On March 13, Cochrane RCMP responded to the report of two female missing children and two female missing adults.

The Crown was granted a retrial in the case against a former Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate found not guilty of participating in the riot.

The Turtleford RCMP is asking for information from the public that may help solve an armed robbery that occurred on March 15 at approximately 11 p.m. in the community of St. Walburg.

Here are highlights of Tuesday’s COVID-19 update featuring Premier Scott Moe and chief medical health officer Dr.Saqib Shahab.

Around 3:20 p.m. February 28, Watrous RCMP responded to a complaint of a human skull located in a field in the RM of Morris by people looking for shed antlers.

Vaccines Reported An additional 4,245 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 108,669.

UPDATE: The Saskatchewan RCMP has received several requests for updates in relation to the death of Jaxon MacDonald.

The City of North Battleford is looking at switching out the bollards located downtown, due to mounting costs of repairing the current ones that are there.