Local News

By Robin Tarnowetzki Journal Staff Writer [email protected] Fire Prevention Week is Oct. 5-11 and this year the main emphasis is on smoke alarms.

By Melanie Jacob Journal Editor [email protected] The prairies is the heart of Canada and agriculture is Saskatchewan's life blood. To support this, the government has proclaimed October as Agriculture Month in Saskatchewan.

With work crews on Railway Avenue now moving over to drill test holes in adjacent lanes from last week, motorists driving by the Fas Gas on Railway Avenue are being asked to be extra careful today. On Wednesday from 7 a.m. through to 6 p.m.

By Melanie Jacob Journal Editor [email protected] Minimum wage earners can say thanks for the provincial government's 20-cent raise, but labour groups are saying it's still not good enough.

A permanent homeless shelter should be open in North Battleford in November.

By Melanie Jacob Journal Editor [email protected] For the curious soul willing to trek down the steps of the Royal Canadian Legion Hall to its museum, there are quite a few wide-eyed mannequins standing ready to greet them.

By Robin Tarnowetzki Journal Staff Writer [email protected] Humboldt's Vicki Lund celebrated opening a space for her practice, Spirit Haven, at the Community Gathering Place on Sept. 30.

City of North Battleford crews are patching a stretch of 110th Street today, closing off the 900 and 1000 blocks of that street to north-south traffic.

Graffiti artists are on the loose again, and the latest victim has cried foul over the policies in place at City Hall to deal with it.

Anyone flying over the Cut Knife-Rockhaven area of Saskatchewan may be in store for an interesting sight below. That sight would be a corn maze - a corn field with several walking paths in a maze design which people can try to find their way through.