Local News

The Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation has unveiled a new tool to help prevent more victims of drunk driving from entering their emergency room. That tool is called SIDNE – a Simulated Impaired Driving Experience.

Oct. 1 to 7 is World Breastfeeding Week and Prairie North Health Region is encouraging businesses, agencies and organizations to reflect on ways to support breastfeeding moms in the workplace.

The Wilkie RCMP Detachment has responded to numerous complaints of stolen vehicles and theft from unlocked vehicles in the community in the last few weeks.

Saturday, Sept. 26 at 6:35 a.m. the Battlefords RCMP responded to a complaint of an armed robbery at 7-Eleven located on the 1700 block of 100th Street in North Battleford and have released images from the store's surveillance tape.

It is now official that Glenn Tait will be on the ballot for the New Democrats in Battlefords-Lloydminster. Tait's nomination was confirmed on the Elections Canada website and he will be on the ballot for the Oct. 19 election.

Maidstone RCMP say there has been a fatal two-vehicle collision at the junction of Highway 684 and Highway 303, approximately 20 km north of Waseca and 40 km east of Lloydminster. The collision was reported to RCMP at approximately 2 p.m. Friday.

A chance meeting with an unusual chef has resulted in a plan for a three-day food event in the Battlefords organized by a John Paul II Collegiate teacher. The chef is a raw food chef named Chris Kendall.

The relocation of a number of at-risk graves in the Battleford Cemetery is in progress.

A group gathered last week for a town hall meeting on privatization in health care were warned funding cuts were on the way – and that warning has materialized.

The opposition NDP is once again blasting the P3 model for the new Saskatchewan Hospital construction. The NDP caucus issued a news release Monday, in which they took aim at the hospital’s $407 million price tag over a span of 33 years.