Category Archives: Newsletter Daily

NB daycare asking city council for help following speeding and 'near misses'
Like every other school zone, the speed limit on 19th Avenue from Holy Family School to North Battleford Early Learning Centre is 30 km/hr, but some drivers are doing everything except follow the limi...
Sep 25, 2024

NBCHS junior A girls win it all in home volleyball tournament
The North Battleford Comprehensive High School Junior A girls volleyball team held their home tournament this past weekend and went undefeated, winning the tournament. "We had lots of community member...
Sep 24, 2024

'I'm human': Kelli Hawtin re-announces mayoral bid
After being inundated with emails, phone calls and texts asking her to reconsider running, Kelli Hawtin has now re-announced her candidacy for Mayor of the City of North Battleford."I gave it some tho...
Sep 24, 2024

'Axe the tax' and 'jail, not bail': Catching up with MP Rosemarie Falk
The fall sitting of Parliament started much the same way it ended for Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Rosemarie Falk and her fellow Conservatives: staying focused on the carbon tax and the economy. "I wil...
Sep 24, 2024

Getting ready for Nipawin and new signing from BCHL
The Battlefords North Stars have only one game this week and it's this Saturday, September 28 against the Nipawin Hawks at the Access Communications Centre. The Hawks currently hold a 0-2 record after...
Sep 24, 2024

Natural Gas flaring being done in Meota
SaskEnergy is informing the public that they will be doing natural gas flaring from 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 25 at the TransGas Meter Station in the RM of Meota, east of Highway ...
Sep 24, 2024
Caddies and paper bags: Schools figuring out cellphone bans
From cellphone "hotels" to patchwork policies to recalibrating lesson plans, teachers and schools across Canada are learning to navigate a classroom without cellphones.But some say that despite recent...
Sep 24, 2024
NDP rolls out $1.1 billion funding plan for Saskatchewan health care
Saskatchewan health-care workers continue to sound the alarm as they say the system in the province is in complete "crisis". Janell Hubbard, general vice president of CUPE 5430, said health-care worke...
Sep 24, 2024

NDTR flag raising: embracing the future and honouring the past
Trigger warning: readers may be triggered by the subject matter of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24-hour National Crisis Line, call: 1-866-925-4419.The Battlefords Agency Tribal Council (BAT...
Sep 23, 2024

Challenge to Saskatchewan’s pronoun law gets its day in court
REGINA - Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal is hearing arguments about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.A judge ruled...
Sep 23, 2024