Local News

The City of North Battleford will be closing streets Sunday for a main valve replacement project.The City says the 11th Avenue - 100th Street intersection and the 1100 block of 100th Street will be closed to traffic at 5:00 a.m.

Twenty-two adults completed academic upgrading at the North West Regional Collage and graduated with bright futures June 17.

June 10, a group of four cyclists arrived in St. Walburg after riding the established portion of the Trans Canada Trail that bisects the district as it winds its way toward the west.

There has been another vicious assault and bear-spray incident in North Battleford. Three city residents have been charged so far in connection to the incident, which took place on 109th Street in North Battleford around 5 am last Friday morning.

Be afraid, Leafy Spurge! With the advent of a weed management area, you can be sprayed upon, regardless of where you show your scraggly yellow bloom.

The 2011 Battleford Block Party ended up postponed by rain last weekend. However, it is expected organizers will try again to hold the event before summer is out.

More building permits were issued in North Battleford in May than last year, but the permit values were less than 2010 numbers. A total of 19 permits were issued for $671,100, compared to 17 for $3,095,000 in May 2010.

The 2011 City of Humboldt budget was approved at the regular council meeting held on June 13. "This year has been a very complicated budget year," said Mayor Malcolm Eaton during the meeting.

The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce has officially decided to bring in Donald Cooper as their event speaker this fall. Chamber directors voted to accept Cooper as the speaker at their annual fall business education and professional development event.

Battlefords employees with Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation are among those walking the picket lines this week. At 2 p.m.