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This is it, the last long weekend of summer.

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Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk is waiting for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call an election. Visitors stopped by Falk’s North Battleford office at 1322-100th St. on Friday for a meet-and-greet with the Member of Parliament.

Saskatchewan residents will soon have access to a brand new emergency department.

One of two individuals charged with the first-degree murder of 61-year-old Mark Douglas Jonson in North Battleford made a brief appearance Wednesday in provincial court.

Violence surrounding the Tiki Laverdiere murder case continues at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre.

Today at 1:23 p.m., RCMP officers from the Wadena Detachment were called to a residence on the Fishing Lake First Nation. A caller reported to police that an adult male was causing a disturbance outside a residence and was armed with a weapon.

Issues concerning the oil and gas sector were front and centre at a presentation Monday at noon at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce.