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The North Battleford Comprehensive High School Vikings senior girls basketball team took full advantage of playing in familiar surroundings over the weekend.

Battlefords RCMP are reporting a break and enter involving alleged bear mace and firearms on Sunday night. The call came in to police at 9:17 p.m. about the reported incident on 109th Street in North Battleford.

After some sub-par showings by their standards, the Battlefords North Stars concluded their slate of seven straight games at the Civic Centre with performances that fans have come to expect over the last couple of seasons.

The recent verdict an in North Battleford is a judicial disgrace not only as a failure of justice but it is an embarrassing result of Canadian colonial history and current culture.

After hearing pitches from three charities on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 1, the organization 100 Women Who Care voted to give their $10,000-plus donation to Creative Kids - Battlefords chapter.

The 2018 Saskatchewan Winter Games committee has announced the Battlefords Hotels Association as a platinum sponsor with their commitment of $25,000 to the games.

Submitted Twelve teachers from John Paul II Collegiate have been named as the recipients of the McDowell Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to educational research in the province of Saskatchewan.

Supporters of Colten Boushie took their outrage over the verdict in the Gerald Stanley trial to the streets in North Battleford and throughout Canada Saturday.