Local News

A house on 93rd Street was destroyed in a major fire Wednesday. North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services responded to the fire on the 1700 block of 93rd Street on June 20th at around 4 p.m.

Traffic along Highway 4, Highway 40, and 22nd Street in Battleford will be detoured around the four-way stop intersection while crews pave in the area Thursday. The detour is expected to last through the morning, returning to normal in the afternoon.

Gold Eagle Lodge and Gold Eagle Casino were honoured again for their dedication to professional development, this time from nationally certified tourism professionals from around Canada.

A local donor has established the Anonymous Fund and annually the income from the fund is donated to the Battlefords Boys and Girls Club.

One of the remaining accused in the Mosquito First Nation TLE case is going to trial this fall. Gerald Arthur Bird, who was TLE trustee on the reserve, is going to trial for fraud and criminal breach of trust.

The Town of Battleford has quietly dropped the idea of bringing in criminal record checks for the 2012 civic election. Members of town council received the information about the idea at their Monday council meeting.

Sometime between the evening of June 9 and the morning of June 11, a number of tires and rims were stolen from vehicles parked at two separate businesses on the 3000 block of 99th Street in North Battleford.

Last year, there was one. This year, there will be 15. Fifteen members of the Governor General's Horse Guard will be paying a visit to Humboldt in late June; not only to the present city, but to the site of the original settlement.

The fundraising campaign for the Credit Union CUPlex got a much-needed boost from the Bank of Montreal Thursday. BMO Financial announced its contribution of $100,000 to the CUPlex project Thursday.

According to The Weather Network, several communities throughout the Northwest are under a tornado watch for Tuesday afternoon. There have been reports of a funnel cloud spotted north of the Sifto Salt Plant in Unity earlier this afternoon.