Tag Archives: Crime & Courts

The case for a man who pleaded guilty to an attack caught on video in Battleford was back at North Battleford Provincial Court Monday. Adam Lesmeister, 46, of Battleford, was originally facing a charg...

Battlefords RCMP have arrested and charged one man after his request for a ride turned violent.Around 11:15 a.m. last Tuesday, the man approached the front desk staff of the detachment where he reques...

A man has been charged with robbery and resisting arrest following an incident that happened in North Battleford late Saturday morning. Braden Zacharias, 25, was arrested yesterday afternoon just a fe...

OTTAWA - Federal watchdogs and members of Parliament are pressing Canada's top corrections officials to improve conditions for Black and Indigenous offenders who are serving time in federal prisons. T...

Drug trafficking in Battlefords and some in Edmonton have taken a big hit with the seizure of 17 pounds of cocaine, some illegally held handguns, Xanax, pre-rolled joints, almost 900 cartons of cigare...

A man from Sweetgrass First Nation and another from Edmonton have been identified as the pair arrested following a high-speed police pursuit on Highway 16 near Waseca last night. Nakota Pooyak, 29, an...

RCMP used a spike belt to stop a vehicle on Highway 16 near Waseca late yesterday following a police pursuit. Multiple detachments were called out around 11 p.m., and officers blocked off the highway ...

The Town of Battleford is seeing an increase in a number of categories in its latest RCMP crime report. Battlefords RCMP Inspector Jesse Gilbert visited town council Monday to present the quarterly re...

EDMONTON - As Alberta's Law Society seeks to defend rules that require members to take a course on Indigenous issues, experts say such measures are common elsewhere in Canada and are well-grounded in ...

Battlefords RCMP are investigating after a man was injured by a firearm.Police received a report at 6:15 a.m. on Friday that a person was injured at a home on the 1200 block of 108 Street in North Bat...