Local News

The filing of nominations papers has begun in the North Battleford city council byelection race in 2014, and a familiar name from municipal politics is first out of the gate.

A bat was used to break into a business on the 1900 block of St. Laurent Drive at about 3 a.m. Friday, according to Battlefords RCMP. Police say a lone perpetrator gained entry through the front door using a bat..

North Battleford city council has agreed to extend a land transfer agreement with Battle River Nations Trade and Tourism Association by an extra year to July 2015.

Wallace George, 38, hasn't been seen since last summer and Pierceland RCMP are asking anyone with information to contact them as they continue their investigation into the Big Island Lake Cree Territory man's disappearance.

The Saskatchwan Housing Authority has announced appointments to several local housing authority boards in the Northwest.

North West Mutual Aid Area hosted a disaster planning exercise in St. Walburg Feb. 22. The mock emergency centre exercise was designed by the mutual aid co-ordinators and was facilitated by Randy Buckland of Emergency Fire and Safety.

Inspector John Sutherland of the RCMP says cold weather is likely the main reason calls for service were down during the month of January compared to a year ago.

Battlefords RCMP responded to 17 calls for service/occurrences between 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26 and 6 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 27. Among those calls were two reports of erratic/dangerous driving and two false alarms. Wednesday 8:11 a.m.

Hafford is listed by SaskTel as one of two rural Saskatchewan communities to recently be offered SaskTel's High Speed Basic Level 2 package that gives speeds of up to five megabits per second download.

Saskatchewan's farmers produced a record crop in 2013 but as grain languishes in elevators and ships waiting to be loaded sit in Vancouver for weeks on end, the excitement of that bumper crop is beginning to fade into frustration.