Local News

The Battlefords Business Excellence Awards (BBEX) Committee has awarded a $1,000 BBEX scholarship to Kelcey Redding, business certificate student at North West Regional College.

Battlefords MLA Len Taylor has a new role in advance of the return of the legislature in March. He will take on duties as the opposition critic for Highways and Infrastructure. Taylor was appointed to the new role Feb.

A woman already serving time behind bars is facing charges following an investigation into a May 21, 2010 robbery of a business in the 100 block of 99th Street in North Battleford.

A new childcare centre in North Battleford celebrated its grand opening Feb. 15. Les Petits Pingouins, which opened in the fall of 2010, is the Battlefords' only exclusively French childcare centre.

City council is on the receiving end of more complaints from people caught in the web of the stepped-up property management enforcement in the city.

Just over two weeks after their previous forecast, the Saskatchewan Watershed authority (SWA) has released an update of potential spring runoff conditions for the province.

The Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Battlefords are now at a new location with a spectacular view of the city. The new offices are at office No. 703, 1101-101st St., on the seventh floor of the RBC Tower.

The provincial government is trying to keep municipalities happy, promising to work with them on growth and development issues.

The tender has been awarded for the construction of cell number three of the North Battleford landfill. Lux Construction was awarded the tender at a Feb.

The City of North Battleford is accepting an apology from five youths who vandalized signs in the city. The five youths committed the vandalism on the night of Jan. 29. The youths removed road signs from the road.