Local News

The Battlefords Detachment of the RCMP are requesting the public's assistance in locating a missing person from North Battleford. Raymond Bendall, 73 years old, was last seen leaving his residence in North Battleford on Saturday at 10 p.m.

A 42-year-old Regina motorist has been arrested for allegedly travelling 134 km/h in a 60 km/h construction zone near Maidstone on Highway 16.

It may have been a new location and new format for the Battlefords Business Excellence Awards, but there were some familiar names among the winners. Scott Campbell Dodge Ltd. was named Business of the Year Award at the Oct. 2 event.

Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) hosted a delegation from its partner biosphere reserve in Germany at a presentation celebrating the joint brochure entitled Partners in the World Network, Sept. 25.

Board members and senior staff of Living Sky School Division had a chance to air some of their concerns in a meeting recently with area MLAs. Attending a Sept.

Once again the Battlefords News-Optimist is inviting all council candidates to participate in an all-candidates profile page for the upcoming civic election.

North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services is hosting Fire Prevention week next week, hoping to send a message to residents to "have two ways out." The activities begin Saturday and run through Oct.

Nominations closed Sept. 19 for elections in rural municipalities across Saskatchewan, and a number of races are already over.

The Maurice Vellacott MP mobile office unit has once again hit the road as Tim Vellacott, public relations assistant, heads out to rural areas of the constituency to listen to the issues at hand with its constituents.

Living Sky School Division board members aren't happy about using their provincial funding to subsidize the cost of educating students for which the federal government is responsible.