Local News

Hafford residents saw something last week that most people don't see every day - a tornado. A funnel cloud was spotted by several eyewitnesses Friday, June 24 around 2:30 p.m.

There are all kinds of ways to celebrate Canada Day in and around the Battlefords. Canada Day celebrations take place behind the Don Ross Centre starting at 8:00 p.m. with entertainment, children's activities and the RCMP Safety Bear.

The Living Sky School Division closed out this year's board meetings with a glowing commendation of the division'ßs teachers by two of its superintendents.

After 35 years of serving children in the Battlefords the Battleford Boys and Girls Club realized they needed a new building.

By 10 a.m., there were 30 bikes; 10 minutes later, there were 10 more. And by the time the bikes taking part in the Shake, Rattle and Roll Motorcycle Rally for Parkinson's Disease rolled out of St. Gregor on June 25, there were over 50 of them.

While a raise for Saskatchewan's teachers has become the focus of a mediation process, the staff working at Living Sky School Division's central office will be getting a three per cent raise.

There was no escaped convict from the Prince Albert penitentiary in Humboldt. Nor was there a huge take-down of drug dealers. No, the plethora of police officers in the city last week was due to a blitz on traffic offences in the city of Humboldt.

"I'm not going to take credit for good luck," Brian Quinn told the Living Sky School Division School Board last week when reporting on the division's critical incident procedures.

A Grade 7 student has died after drowning in the water at Aquadeo on Monday . The incident happened shortly after 1100 am June 27, 2011. Battlefords Rural RCMP and EMS were dispatched to Aquadeo at Jackfish Lake.

Floods in southeast Saskatchewan and labour woes involving crop insurance workers overshadowed the Northwest Premier's Dinner in Meadow Lake.