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Beat Rachel Homan 7-6

One of the individuals charged in connection to an armed robbery and break and enter near Edam is due back in provincial court Jan. 9.

Latest batch of "substantive" disclosure provided to defence this week

Wednesday marked the second night of budget deliberations in North Battleford, and so far there have been no changes to the administration proposal to increase property taxes and utilities by two per cent each.

As of Dec. 12, $60,085 has been raised through a Facebook online auction group by the generous donations from the community and beyond.

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Lion Gwen Lauglin (left) of the North Battleford Bonaventure Lions and Lion Marie Milnthorp (right) of the Historic Battleford Lions were inducted into the Lions Hall of Fame at the Saskatchewan Lions Convention held in Saskatoon Oct. 25-27.

Battlefords MLA Herb Cox notes there have been some efforts made to address the ongoing issues at Valleyview Towers in North Battleford.

Battlefords MLA Herb Cox is home for the holiday break period, after what he considers a productive fall sitting of the legislature in Regina. While the fall sitting is over, the work isn’t.

Vada Paskemin was born June 20, 2019, in North Battleford, with two heart defects. Brittany Paskemin, Vada’s mother, says “There was no indication that Vada had two heart defects before she was born via a scheduled c-section.