Category Archives: Battlefords

Seven-year-old from the Battlefords sweeps up provincial, national curling titles
While most kids his age are just learning to throw a rock, seven-year-old Luke Arsenault is already making history on the ice.The young curler from Twin Rivers Curling Club in North Battleford recentl...
Mar 07, 2025

100th Men's Open kicks off evening of Mar. 7 at Twin Rivers
While elusively digging in the North Battleford Historic Archives for anything relating to the community's curling history, Doug Fehr has discovered history isn't always clear. "We should call it 100 ...
Mar 07, 2025

Laparoscopy towers now in use at BUH
In one of the Battlefords Union Hospital operating rooms, General Surgeon Melissa Mcgee and Equipment Resource Technician Lynnette Tatton turned on a new laprascopy tower that was just put into servic...
Mar 06, 2025

North Battleford opens property assessment roll for Review
North Battleford's property assessment roll opens on March 6, giving property owners until May 5 to review their assessments and file appeals if needed."Property assessment appeals may only be filed d...
Mar 06, 2025

'Pretty excited': Teachers and STF still digesting Tuesday's decision
A day after announcing the arbiter's decision to allow class complexity in the Provincial Collective Bargaining Agreement, Samantha Becotte, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation said she...
Mar 05, 2025

Battlefords chamber optimistic ahead of Mayor's State of the City Address
Big questions about North Battleford's future could be answered next week as Mayor Kelly Hawtin delivers her State of the City Address on March 12 at the Dekker Centre.Business leaders are eager to he...
Mar 05, 2025

JPII raises over $20,000 for Battlefords Healthcare Foundation
It was packed stands on Tuesday night at John Paul II (JPII) Collegiate as the JPII Crusaders Senior girls basketball team took on the McLurg Broncos, but it wasn't the game that was the highlight of ...
Mar 05, 2025

ICE Unit arrests Red Pheasant man for child pornography
After receiving a referral from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children on February 12, 2025, the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit began an investigation around child...
Mar 05, 2025

'What’s the point?' Chamber of Commerce's Machniak talks tariffs
As the country grappled with the implementation of US tariffs Tuesday, Rosemarie Falk, MP for Battlefords-Lloydminster spoke to business leaders and community members about Liberal failures and respon...
Mar 05, 2025

Falk talks tariffs, politics at Chamber luncheon
Hope, resiliency, and a plan forward were the key topics of Battleford-Lloydminster MP Rosemarie Falk's public meeting at the Battlefords and District Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. "Local businesses...
Mar 05, 2025