Local News

Dates have been set for further discussion of the City's proposed new traffic bylaw. City administration has recommended the regularly scheduled municipal services meeting to be cancelled Monday.

The new route for North Battleford Public Transit is already seeing a slight change. In response to concerns about the high vehicular traffic and pedestrian-vehicle interaction at one location, one of the bus stops is being moved. Stop No.

Battlefords RCMP continue to look for a person missing since April 17. James Turgeon was last seen May 7 near the 1000 block of 101st Street in North Battleford. Police have received numerous tips, but have not located him yet.

The Battlefords did not go unrepresented at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual conference and trade show in Saskatoon.

The City of North Battleford has passed two bylaws clearing the way for new 94-unit seniors' apartments and condos on the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre site.

The PARTY program (Preventing Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma for Youth) gave a second information session on May 31, this time for 108 Grade 9 and 10 students from Humboldt Collegiate Institute and Muenster School.

Local residents are being urged to look out, and keep clear of rising levels and flow in the North Saskatchewan River this week.

Two Northwest School Division teachers and learning coaches, Susan Plant and Jennifer Dorval, have earned a Dr. Stirling McDowell research grant totalling just under $11,000 to fund a research project to be launched in the fall.

Re/Max of the Battlefords continues a 15-year partnership with the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation with a recent donation of $1,000.

She is inspired by her hometown. Noelle Nikas is designing a line of promotion items for Humboldt that will be sold at Brick House Clothing in the city. Nikas grew up in Humboldt.