Local News

Two men are facing a long list of Criminal Code weapons charges after La Ronge RCMP investigated a complaint of a shot being fired in a residential neighbourhood of La Ronge Sunday.

The new Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan made his first official visit to the Battlefords on Saturday. The Hon. Russ Mirasty was in North Battleford for two functions. The first was a visit and tour of Harwood Manor during the afternoon.

$15,751 to Floyd Favel for two projects

Two organizations from the Battlefords were awarded grants from the Saskatchewan Arts Board at the recent deadlines, totaling $20,000.

UPDATE: Cora Lisitza has been found safe. ARBORFIELD — Carrot River RCMP are asking for the public's help to locate 59 year old Cora Lisitza. She was last seen on Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. in Arborfield.

A man charged in connection to a violent home invasion north of Edam in January 2018 appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court Jan. 31 via CCTV from Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre.

LANIGAN, BRUNO, RM OF BAYNE — More than $10,000 worth of bull riding gear was stolen from a vehicle parked at a business on Highway 16 in Lanigan. The crime took place in the early morning hours of Jan. 20.

Tiki Laverdiere homicide

WAKAW, MELFORT — A series of arrests and searches in Wakaw and Melfort resulted in five being arrested and 29 grams of what’s suspected by the police to be methamphetamine seized.

Turtleford RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a trailer stolen from a rural location in the RM of Frenchman Butte.