Local News

Lloydminster Rural RCMP are requesting the public's assistance with respect to the theft of a boat and trailer which happened sometime between Aug. 19 and Aug. 21. 2011.

Fire crews battled a truck fire at the rear of a residence on 110th Street on Sunday. On arrival, fire crews found that an accumulation of garbage in the rear box area had burned.

Quilters will drive long distances to buy beautiful materials and patterns, Holly Lightfoot will bring the goods right to the quilters.

It was a roaring success. The third annual Kevin Weber Memorial Run was held on August 13. The rally is organized by Weber's sister, Katrina Stelzer and husband Dave, in memory of Weber, who died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 44.

Both supporters and non-supporters alike mourned the passing of federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton on Monday. Layton, 61, died Monday following a lengthy battle with cancer.

A three-year-old girl is dead following an attack by dogs on the Mosquito First Nation reserve. RCMP and ambulance responded to a 911 call just before 7 p.m. Sunday night, Aug. 21, about a girl being injured by dogs on the reserve.

Under a glass casing, protected from dust and encapsulated by time, are tiny vials filled with soil from the Holy Land. On another shelf of the display case there is a bronze statuette venerating Saint Francis of Assisi.

It was a historic moment. The last step in the 142 staircase to the top of the Humboldt Water Tower was put in on August 12.

The Battlefords was the latest stop Monday on a cross-country journey to promote education in the developing world.

Charges against the chief of Poundmaker First Nation and eight others accused of various Treaty Land Entitlement fraud crimes on the reserve were read for the first time in Cut Knife provincial court Tuesday.