Local News

Physician recruitment again topped the agenda of the North Saskatchewan River Municipal Health Holdings Ltd. board when they met Dec. 15 at Riverside Health Complex in Turtleford.

North Battleford RCMP and the coroner's office have determined a manfound dead in the CN Rail yard Dec. 29, died of natural causes. The man has been identified as 45-year-old Elvis Edward Johnson. No foul play is suspected.

It was a busy year at North Battleford City Hall, but the events that happened on one afternoon in July of this year overshadowed other activities. July 22 was the day the heavens opened up as North Battleford was hit by the Flood of 2010.

By any measure, 2011 was a far more active political year than usual in the Battlefords. It is highly unusual for the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government to all hold elections in the same year.

Blair and Sandra Lamon of JJ Lamon (Petro Can) are supporters of their local community groups and businesses, however a fuel tank and semi are not purchases available locally.

Aristotle, one of the most famous of ancient Greek philosophers, once said, "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

There has been a suspicious death at the yard of the Canadian National Railway in North Battleford. Battlefords RCMP were called to the scene of the death shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday.

The woman who helped "relight the night" in the Battlefords has been named Citizen of the Year in the Battlefords for 2010.

The City of North Battleford is planning to seek a Certificate of Recognition designation in the near future, as a way to promote health and safety in its workplace.

A 23-year-old woman is dead after a single-vehicle rollover in the early hours Wednesday. According to WPD Ambulance the crash happened around 3 a.m. approximately 36 km east of North Battleford.