Local News

While driving to North Battleford one day last week, I was listening to John Gormley on the radio talking about the forecast and how sunny the weather was going to be.

A group of women from Toronto and their friends have teamed up with the Canadian Cancer Society to create a community initiative that will raise money for cervical cancer awareness.

"A sale like this only shows up once a year," said Kim Kramer of Kramer Auctions. The rare lifetime collection of Paul Bec is going to auction next week, and "Everything must go that day," said Bec.

City council in North Battleford has given its approval to agreements between Northland Power and the City to provide wastewater to the new power generation plant.

The draw of water can be irresistible in the hot dog days of a prairie summer, and the staff at North Battleford Kinsmen Aquatic Centre want that cooling dip to be a safe one for everyone this summer.

Two Paul Harris Awards were presented at the North Battleford Rotary Club's president's windup June 28.

The sod has officially been turned for the $9.7 million Highway 4 twinning project in the town of Battleford.

North Battleford fire and Emergency Service responded to a motor home fire Sunday. The motor home was on Highway 16 about 14 kilometres east of North Battleford. When the emergency vehicles arrived just after 6 p.m.

A soup kitchen is opening in Humboldt. Starting last week, every Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Organizers are happier than a pig basking in a mudhole after Englefeld's 40th annual Hogfest turned out to be one of the most successful in recent years.