Local News

On July 10, 2017, at about 11:20 p.m., Battlefords RCMP stopped a white Ford F350 in the city after it went through a controlled intersection without stopping. The truck stopped for police, then backed into the front end of a police truck.

There will be no fluoride added to Nipawin’s drinking water. The town’s council made the decision at their July 10 meeting.

Every year, it seems, the MoneySense listing of “Canada’s Best Places to Live” shortchanges North Battleford. But the city’s ranking for 2017 was particularly awful.

The bass was pumping in Tisdale over the weekend as the Tisdale and District Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual Rockin’ the Square concert.

Battlefords RCMP responded to 62 calls for service over the time period Wednesday July 12th 6 a.m. – Thursday July 13th 6 a.m., including but not limited to the following: 6:42 a.m.

Four candidates took the stage Tuesday in Saskatoon for the federal New Democrats’ leadership debate, but it was the ideas of one of them in particular that seemed to fire up the others on stage.

The rocking in Tisdale moved from the square to the racetrack with round two of the season at the Tisdale Motor Speedway. A total of 15 Cars came out to compete July 9 with teams travelling in from Shellbrook, Watrous, Outlook and Swift Current.

Tobin Lake was full over the weekend with not just of fish, but fishers as well. The Nipawin Hawks hosted their seventh annual Tobin Lake Walleye Championship, July 7-9.

Grain related injuries are on the rise, not just on the prairies but across Canada.

This past year was not great for SPCA adoptions with only 136 cats and dogs finding forever homes from June 2016 to June 2017.