Fresh off their first North Sask River Baseball League (NSRBL) championship since the team's dynastic run of four straight from 1994-97, the North Battleford Beavers are now gearing up to begin their title defense, with the start of the 2024 senior ball season just over a week away.Player/coach with the Beavers, Kyle G...

Six years ago, the City of North Battleford commissioned a crime perception survey done. At the time, Maclean's Magazine had named North Battleford, which had a crime severity index that was five times the national average, Canada's "crime capital." Tarah Hodgkinson, lead researcher and assistant professor fr...

The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Battlefords Branch is getting ready to host a number of exciting events to celebrate Mental Health Week in the Battlefords.Running May 6 to 12, the event includes everything from informative talks, to community walks to raise awareness of the important issue of mental healt...

Beginning Monday, North Battleford residents will see the "Water Main Flushing" signs around town as the annual "unidirectional water line flushing process" begins. According to a news release, the flushing helps to ensure lines work and the areas impacted in the two-week long process will be "...

A conservation officer who pulled over a vehicle in Leoville on Tuesday resulted in a wanted man in jail along with drugs and weapons off the street.Spiritwood RCMP were called by the Conservation Officer after they learned that the driver of a vehicle they had pulled over was wanted for missing a court appearance. Whi...

Traffic is returning to normal after a three-vehicle collision on Territorial Drive Thursday morning.Emergency crews responded to the collision at the intersection of Territorial Drive and 100th St.According to the city, only minor injuries were reported. The scene was cleared for traffic flow to resume regularly short...

With the turn of the calendar to May, local golf courses around the Battlefords and area are teeing off for spring 2024, with strong turnouts kicking off the season in full swing.North Battleford Golf and Country Club At North Battleford Golf and Country Club, the course opened April 24, followed closely by their annua...

The Rotary Club of the Battlefords has stepped up in a big way to show its support to the Battlefords Humane Society's project to build a new animal shelter facility. The Rotary Club is fulfilling its total commitment to give $50,000 to the Humane Society for the project. The first $25,000 was donated about three years...

Just a year after taking home a silver medal as teammates at the 2023 Best of the West volleyball championship in Calgary, the Battlefords dynamic duo of Jadyn Bugg and Daley Vany have now claimed provincial gold with the 16U Sask Stealth, in Saskatoon.The Stealth lost just a single set in six matches on their way to t...

People in the North as well as across Saskatchewan will now have access to new spaces for detox treatment at Onion Lake Cree Nation, located 30 minutes north of Lloydminster. The province announced 15 detox addictions treatment beds would open to adults at Ekweskeet Healing Lodge to serve the area and anyone in the pro...