Local Sports

School is back in session and so too is the 2013 high school football season.

A well-known local name now has a new role at the Northland Power Curling Centre in North Battleford.

While many Roughriders fans flooded to Winnipeg, Man. over the weekend for the Banjo Bowl, others could be found in Minneapolis, Minn. for a game between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays.

The Western Hockey League announced Thursday on its website the Saskatoon Blades' ownership change has been approved.

"Pioneers of sport." That's the theme for the 2014 Saskatchewan Senior Fitness Association (SSFA) +55 Games.

Since his Major League Baseball career began just under a month ago, Andrew Albers has faced little in the way of adversity.

For the first time in their 103-year history, the Saskatchewan Roughriders boast a record of 8-1.

It's been a long wait throughout the summer, but the Humboldt Broncos are almost ready to get back on the ice. The 2013-14 season will truly get underway at the team's training camp, to be held Sept. 6-8 at the Elgar Petersen Arena.

The Battlefords North Stars hit the ice Sunday afternoon for the first time since March and lost a close game to the division rival Kindersley Klippers in SJHL action.

If there was any concern that North Battleford pitcher Andrew Albers would struggle once MLB batters were familiar with him, he partially put it to rest Wednesday night.