Local News

North Battleford Fire Department are reporting they responded to two early morning fires on Sunday morning in the city. The first call came at 4:14 am of a vehicle fire in a field just off of Airport Road.

North Battleford’s SARCAN depot has earned a customer service award. The award recognizes outstanding customer service in the extra-large depot category.

St. Mary Community School in North Battleford is one of 30 Canadian elementary schools to benefit from dispersal of $1.5 million by the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation’s Literacy Fund. St.

NORTHEAST — Northeast schools will see almost $1.4 million in repairs during the next school year. Nipawin’s LP Miller Comprehensive School will receive $550,000 and Melfort and Unit Comprehensive Collegiate will receive $495,000 for roof repairs.

A suspect in a robbery on Mosquito First Nation was on trial this past week at North Battleford Provincial Court.

A jail sentence was handed down Thursday in connection to a break and enter and robbery charge from last November. William Standingontheroad was sentenced in North Battleford Provincial Court to four years and 100 days for those charges.

Battlefords RCMP is inviting members of the public to a series of town hall meetings in June.

With rainfall in many areas, the ban on open fires for all provincial Crown land south of the Churchill River, including provincial parks, has now been lifted, according to the Ministry of Environment. The ban was put in place on May 14.

For the Prairie North Co-op, 2017 was the year they saw essential projects begin and a merger undertaken. “We had a stronger year in 2017,” said Randy Wassermann, the co-op’s general manager.

From the Tisdale Recorder files, May 29, 1968