Local News

Battleford Lions are hosting a Purina Walk for Dog Guides, Sunday, May 29. Registration is from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Lions Clubhouse at 162- 22nd St. in Battleford. The Walk begins at 2 p.m.

Chantal Wagner of Unity is one of the 16 students chosen from Western Canada to receive the RE/MAX 2011 Quest for Excellence' bursary valued at $1,000.

A 24-year -ld working at a group home for severely intellectually and physically disabled people in North Battleford has been charged with physically abusing one of the patients.

Seventy-six students just learning how to drive gathered at the Humboldt Uniplex on May 12 to PARTY.

Traffic in the northeast part of Blaine Lake was re-routed Thursday afternoon of when a Viterra semi trailer unit hauling anhydrous ammonia was unable to manoeuvre a turn effectively.

An 18-year-old male has been arrested in connection to a recent Happy Inn off sale robbery and other incidents.

Students from Neilburg Composite School swept the under-18 classification at the 15th annual Western Canadian Robot Games May 14 and15 at the Aerospace Museum in Calgary, taking gold, silver and bronze.

The annual Bike Roadeo, hosted by Prairie North Health Region will be back in the Battlefords May 31 to June 2.

Attracting and retaining doctors is a big issue in Saskatchewan today, but at the turn of the century, it was an even bigger dilemma, with both doctors and druggists few and far between.

Efforts by local doctors to relocate their practice to a north-end funeral home location are back on. A press release issued from the office of Dr.