Category Archives: Newsletter Daily

Sask's Highway Hotline - New winter driving lingo
Saskatchewan's Highway Hotline has introduced new terminology to describe winter driving conditions, providing more straightforward and consistent messages for drivers travelling across western Canada...
Sep 25, 2024

Childerhose steps down as head coach and general manager
The Battlefords North Stars announced today that Head Coach/General Manager, Garry Childerhose has stepped down from his position due to personal reasons. The team said that out of respect for Childer...
Sep 25, 2024

‘This is by far our best year’: JPII football looking good midway through the season
As the John Paul II Collegiate Crusaders football team just hit the mid-way point in the season, they currently hold a 2-1 record and Offensive Coordinator/Coach, Paul Fransoo said this is one of the ...
Sep 25, 2024

Sask NDP raises possibility of insider trading by Cockrill
An investigation is underway to determine if Battlefords MLA Jeremy Cockrill used privileged cabinet information for the purpose of insider trading. The provincial NDP alleges Cockrill used informatio...
Sep 25, 2024

Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital celebrates five years
It's been five years since the opening of the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation (JPCHF), and since then, it has put forward over $85 million to support maternal and pediatric care across all...
Sep 25, 2024
Free menstrual product program expands to post-secondary schools
A Saskatchewan program that provides free menstrual products to people in need is expanding.The program, which was launched in October of 2023, has already distributed more than five million products ...
Sep 25, 2024

Suspect in string of robberies dies after police pursuit; SIRT to investigate
The suspect wanted in connection with four local robberies is dead.RCMP received a report that 34-year-old Joseph "Joey" Desjarlais was in the Fishing Lake First Nation area.Several RCMP units began s...
Sep 25, 2024
‘We can’t afford it’: Sask. producers lament grain terminal strikes
Vancouver might be a 17-plus hour drive from most places in Saskatchewan, but the strike between workers and six-grain terminals there could soon have effects being felt right here in the province."If...
Sep 25, 2024

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