Local News

The Battlefords United Way annual fundraising campaign is in full swing.

Prairie North Health Region reminds the public to use the region's needle disposal boxes for the discarding of needles only. The needle drop boxes are not to be used as recycling bins for used clothing or other personal or household items.

The man charged in the Travelodge murder case will see his matters come up at North Battleford provincial court in a month. Nicholas Clifford Giroux, 35, appeared in Saskatoon provincial court Friday morning facing a charge of second-degree murder.

North Battleford Detachment of the RCMP had a hectic 24 hours dealing with impaired drivers on the weekend. They reported that several arrests were made, with six persons arrested and charged with impaired driving. At 7:30 a.m. on Oct.

One of the three suspects in the Sept. 1 shooting incident has been remanded by consent to Oct. 16. Justin Fineday appeared by closed-circuit TV before North Battleford provincial court on Wednesday morning.

At least one local resident is reporting a success story in her neighbourhood's fight against a problem property.

A Livelong author and journalist has been awarded second place in the 14th annual John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Awards. Friendly Fire by Lisa Guenther was among the winners named by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild recently.

Frustration boiled over among many members of the public at a meeting on public safety at the Don Ross Centre Monday.

There has been an armed robbery on Railway Avenue East in North Battleford. North Battleford RCMP say the armed robbery took place at a hotel around 8:20 p.m.

After a quiet summer that followed a rash of school break-ins, there has been a report of another school break-in, this time overnight Wednesday last week.