Local News

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.

May 22, at approximately 10:15 p.m., the Battlefords RCMP were notified of a fire on 110th Street in North Battleford. The fire damaged playground equipment and is believed to have been intentionally started.

The town of Battleford promises to be the handcraft capital of Saskatchewan beginning next week. For the 38th year the Saskatchewan Handcraft Festival will be held.

It isn't summer school. It's summer camp. It's going to be fun, says Kelvin Colliar, superintendent of curriculum and instruction with Light of Christ Catholic School Division, of four literacy camps to be held this summer.