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The Empty Stocking Fund held its annual kickoff Beef on a Bun event at Third Avenue United Church to kick off its 2019 campaign. City Councillor Kent Lindgren was one of those on hand to enjoy lunch.

A Loon Lake man recently pleaded guilty to two counts of trafficking under The Wildlife Act and received a total of $6,300 in fines in Loon Lake provincial court.

100 Women Who Care the Battlefords met on Thursday, Nov. 14 to hear presentations from community groups applying for a donation from them and select a winning entry.

The City of North Battleford is moving ahead with the next step in its new vehicle for hire bylaw, and that is to move to first reading.

The cast is all smiles as they polish their characters in Sex Please We’re Sixty by Michael Parker and Susan Parker. Rose Cottage Bed and Breakfast is open for business with a little ‘romance’ on the side.

Unity barrel racer, 12-year-old Kaybree Zunti had another year of successes to add to her rodeo story. Kaybree has learned she has qualified for the KK Run for Vegas finals in Junior World Barrel racing this Dec.

A young Battleford resident has returned from Toronto after winning a national recipe contest. Ivan Shevchuk is one of 26 “young chefs” across Canada who won the Kid Food Nation national recipe contest.

Submitted As blue-green algae proliferates around the world, a University of Saskatchewan researcher cautions that current municipal drinking water monitoring that focuses on a single toxin associated with the cyanobacteria blooms is likely to miss t

On Nov. 18 at 8:30 a.m. officers from the Milestone RCMP detachment, Yellowgrass Fire Department and Weyburn EMS attended to a collision on Highway 39, two kilometres northwest of the community of Yellowgrass.