Local News

Surveying equipment was stolen from a vehicle parked on the 100 block of 15th Street in Battleford sometime between June 12 and 15.

An upgraded water treatment plant was the centerpiece of activities in St. Walburg Wednesday, as the community celebrated an official opening of the facility.

Battleford town council is not going ahead with plans for a culvert that would have allowed people to walk underneath highway 4 from Fort Battleford to the Government House area.

"What it's going to look like in the future, I'm really not sure.

Opponents of the chief of Red Pheasant First Nation have now taken their protest to the First Nation's band office.

In the JDRF Walk story printed in the June 13 edition of the Humboldt Journal, the amount the walk made was reported incorrectly. The walk actually raised $30,000.

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.