Local News

With the recent hot weather in combination with a very wet June has created ideal conditions for the appearance of the Culex tarsalis mosquito.

The vandalized grave of the eight Cree and Assiniboine warriors who were executed in 1885 was cleaned and restored by a group of local volunteers June 26.

Forensic investigators from North Battleford are assisting the investigation in Dillon of a break and enter and assault in that northern community. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday. RCMP say they were called in at 3 a.m.

A vehicle is a total loss after a fire Tuesday at about 5:45 p.m. North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services responded to the blaze, but the vehicle was engulfed in flame when they arrived. Four firefighters were on the scene for about 30 minutes.

After wrapping up its first season of operation, the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts will be closed for the next several weeks.

Parents whose children will be attending Grade 8 at the North Battleford Comprehensive High School this fall are being sent information about what they can expect for their children.

This past weekend was a deadly one on Northwest area roads. In addition to a fatal hit-and-run at Poundmaker First Nation comes word of a vehicle rollover in the RM of Mayfield, north of Maymont Sunday. The incident happened around 3:15 p.m.

The Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery is looking for the public's help in acquiring vintage photographs of certain historic buildings here in town.

Lana Clark and her kids, four and six-years-old, are visiting her parents here in Humboldt. But she's not here because of a family reunion or Canada Day festivities - she's here because her house in High River, Alta. is flooded.

If you have any heart at all, compassion, empathy, support for the small, the downtrodden, those that can't fend for themselves, then keep reading because Wanda Price and the Humboldt SPCA need someone just like you.