Local News

Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk is waiting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call an election. Visitors stopped by Falk’s North Battleford office at 1322-100th St. on Friday for a meet-and-greet with the Member of Parliament.

HUMBOLDT — After receiving a letter featuring complaints about the advertising displayed on the LED sign in front of the Uniplex, the city will be talking to the third party that runs the sign.

Saskatchewan residents will soon have access to a brand new emergency department.

One of two individuals charged with the first-degree murder of 61-year-old Mark Douglas Jonson in North Battleford made a brief appearance Wednesday in provincial court.

HUMBOLDT — Businesses with storefronts will pay a $100 business license fee starting in 2020. At its Aug. 26 meeting, council voted in favour of a bylaw that implemented the fee.

Violence surrounding the Tiki Laverdiere murder case continues at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre.

Calgary, Maidstone - Husky Energy announced on Aug. 26 it has commenced production at its Dee Valley thermal project in Saskatchewan, the second of six 10,000-barrel-per-day thermal bitumen projects to be brought onstream from 2018 to 2022.

Today at 1:23 p.m., RCMP officers from the Wadena Detachment were called to a residence on the Fishing Lake First Nation. A caller reported to police that an adult male was causing a disturbance outside a residence and was armed with a weapon.

LANIGAN — A homemade go kart was stolen from a home on Lanigan’s Clement Place. Humboldt-Lanigan RCMP said it was stolen sometime during the night of Aug. 24. The Go Kart is approximately 6’ long by 3’ wide and is made of yellow 1” square tubing.

Issues concerning the oil and gas sector were front and centre at a presentation Monday at noon at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce.