Local News

The Melfort Mustangs picked up a huge 4-2 victory in La Ronge against the Ice Wolves. Despite the win, Trevor Blevins , the team’s head coach, admitted the Feb. 28 game was not his team’s best effort.

A public meeting to discuss the fate of Bjorkdale School has been delayed due to the weather. The meeting, which will allow the North East School Division's board to gather information from the public, will now be held on March 29, at 7 p.m.

Through a museum atmosphere created in the John Paul II Collegiate library, both staff and students were given an opportunity to learn about the history of residential schools from Feb. 28 to March 2.

Battlefords Wildlife Federation is once again hosting its annual Awards Night banquet and fundraiser. This year’s event is Saturday, March 11, at the Wildlife Building at the junction of Highways 16 and 40 in the city’s southeast.

In recognition of International Women’s Day and Women’s History month, the National Farmers Union and the Government of Saskatchewan are hosting two events in the Northwest in March.

Andres ( Andy ) Davalos lucked out when he was putting together Andino Suns .

he provincial Ministry of Social Services has announced a number of local appointments to local housing authority boards of directors in the region. Emily Packet has been appointed to the Borden Housing Authority board of directors.

A warm sunny day combined with a lack of vintage snowmobile drag races made Nipawin’s Shiver by the River a success. “Everything went well. It went smooth,” said Cam Livingston with the Twin Lakes Trail Blazers.

The Carrot River Outback Thunder’s season has come to an end. The Thunder lost their Prairie Junior Hockey League North Division semifinal series, four games to one, to the Saskatoon AGI Insurance Quakers.

The Unity RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in helping solve a hit and run collision that recently occurred in Unity. Sometime overnight on March 2, an unknown vehicle struck a parked SUV on Main Street.