Battlefords News-Optimist

There were 2,449 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered yesterday in Saskatchewan - this brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 22,618.

A lawyer for a man held in custody for a year since his arrest for a violent Unity home invasion objected to numerous trial delays.

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) has been a lifeline to millions of Canadians as they navigated the turbulence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To avid, or even casual, cribbage players, the 29 hand is something of a holy grail. It’s the highest possible score for a cribbage hand, and is made up of three fives and a Jack, with the cut card being of the same suit as the Jack.

Editor’s note – This story comes to us by way of local professional photographer Averil Hall, who through her lenses, sees stories needing to be told. A long time contributor to the News-Optimist, Hall facilitated the publication of this story.

One of the first acts of Donald Trump as president of the United States was to invite TransCanada, now TC Energy, to resubmit its Keystone XL pipeline application, and to then approve it.

The North West zone will start getting vaccinations this week. Sunday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said that, during the weekend, 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were sent to North Battleford.

There were 3,232 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered yesterday in Saskatchewan - the highest one-day total to date. This brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 20,159.

Mandevillas are a genus (and the common name) of a vine that is tropical or subtropical in origin. It was first described as a genus in 1840 and is commonly called rocktrumpet.

Northern Village of Buffalo Narrows Mayor Robert Woods and former chief administrative officer Ash Alam gave conflicting accounts of how a bylaw prohibiting people with criminal records from running in municipal elections came to pass.