Tag Archives: Business & Economy
Leslie lays out list of wants for 2019 provincial budget
A model to direct cannabis tax revenue to the local level, the removal of PST on construction projects, and a more fair distribution system for infrastructure funding.Those are key items on Mayor Ames...
Mar 19, 2019 Battleford Mayor Ames Leslie has little confidence anything on his wish list for the 2019 provincial budget will come true. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
BID planning downtown business survey
Local businesses will be able to offer their feedback when the business improvement committee takes to the streets this spring to gather information for a new survey it is working on.North Battleford ...
Mar 13, 2019 Pop band The Wolfe perform at Central Park
during the North Battleford Downtown Business Improvement District (BID)
concert series in 2018. The BID are making a number of plans for the year ahead
including a survey for downtown business members. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW
Staff)
Grain chaff among conveyor belts cause of terminal fire
Grain chaff catching fire and burning conveyor belts is being pointed too as the cause behind a fire at a terminal north of the city Monday night.Fire crews from North Battleford responded to the Parr...
Mar 12, 2019 Smoke is seen billowing from the Parrish & Heimbecker terminal north of North Battleford. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Area highways receive funding for rehabilitation projects
A number of area highways have received funding from the federal and provincial governments for rehabilitation projects. Over $81 million is set aside for 15 stretches of highway in Saskatchewan, whic...
Mar 11, 2019 Highway 16 and 4 have received funding for rehabilitation work. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Tyler Marr
Local R.M.s prepare for SARM convention
The impending carbon tax has been a hot button issue across the country in recent months, and at least two reeves in the Prince Albert area are hinting they will ask questions about it at next week's ...
Mar 08, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Provincial jobless down year-over-year but local stats remain high
The Saskatchewan government is hailing the latest job stats that show a year-over-year net increase of 9,000 jobs. However, the opposition New Democrats are focusing on the month-over-month stats whic...
Mar 08, 2019 (File photo/Tyler Marr paNOW Staff) : Glenn Hicks
Chamber still hopeful carbon tax will be repealed
The federal government's new carbon tax on utilities bills will be bad news for consumers and will hurt area businesses too, according to members of the Chamber of Commerce.The tax is set to start on ...
Mar 07, 2019 Members of the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce oppose the federal government's carbon tax on utilities, and hope for a reprieve. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Angela Brown
Study shows unusually high proportion of high-value diamonds: Star Diamond
As mining giant Rio Tinto gears up for large bulk sampling of diamonds at the proposed Fort la Corne mining site east of Prince Albert, the owners of the kimberlite deposits are releasing information ...
Mar 06, 2019 A huge trench cutter rig operated by Rio Tinto will excavate a massive hole starting in the spring as the mining company aims to determine the amount and value of diamonds buried in the kimberlites at Fort à la Corne east of Prince Albert.(submitted photo/Star Diamond Corp.) : Glenn Hicks
‘We are building the Northwest’: College gathers input as it eyes potential new campus
Come 2020, shovels could be in the ground for a new North West College (NWC) campus in the Battlefords.Board Chair Byron Merkosky said the organization wants to have a business case for a potential ne...
Mar 06, 2019 North West College has gathered public feedback as they eye a potential new campus in North Battleford. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Tyler Marr
Hotel owner devastated by total fire loss
As the owner of the destroyed Christopher Lake Heritage Hotel and Bar awaits the outcome of the fire investigation, he said the landmark was a cornerstone of the community. Robert Reddekopp has not ru...
Mar 06, 2019 Christopher Lake Hotel and Bar fire aftermath. (Michael Joel Hansen/paNOW Staff) : Glenn Hicks