Local News

Between 6 a.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday Battlefords RCMP responded to more than 20 calls for service/occurrences. Two alarm calls were investigated and both were false. There were three 911 calls in the nuisance/prank category.

Neilburg Village Council met Oct. 7 in the boardroom in the RM office. Present were: administrator Janet Black, Mayor Ernie Ducherer and Councillors Greg Bowes, Aaron Gibbons, Suzanne McDuff and Mike Fouhse.

A 17-year-old youth has been sentenced in connection to the Sept.1 shooting incident in the city.

North Saskatchewan River Municipal Health Holdings has implemented a new electronic medical record program and the clinics are working to resume normal scheduled appointments, board members were told at a Sept. 19 meeting.

Battlefords and District Co-op has taken over ownership and operation of the former Viterra site at the North Battleford agricultural retail location.

It hasn't been seen in quite some time around these parts, but the scourge of measles has not yet been vanquished. A recent outbreak has been tracked in southern Alberta and has recently made its way into Saskatchewan in the last month.

It wasn't like any other day, but it never is. Humboldt was blanketed in pearls of white snow and the temperature was a little chilly, but kids weren't outside making snowmen. The lineup at the Tim Hortons drive-thru was peculiarly small.

The gym at Humboldt Public School is dim and dreary. The lights give off a glow that's more dull yellow than bright white. The whole place just feels worn out, a relic from decades gone by. Off in the corner, though, there's something different.

It's groundbreaking, it has never been done before in Canada, and hardly anywhere else in North America, and yet it's happening in Regina, and Saskatoon by the end of the year.

A major dispute between Canada and the United States over meat-labeling rules is crushing the meat-export industry in Saskatchewan.