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It well-known to local residents, and those from surrounding communities, that Medstead hosts a rip-roaring annual celebration over the Canada Day long weekend, from June 30 to July 2.

Efforts are under way towards commemorating a sometimes overlooked part of the Battlefords’ history: the Battleford Industrial School cemetery. The cemetery is located on the grounds nearby the former location of Government House.

May 12 will see local music lovers’ dreams turn into a reality as the Chickadee Songwriter’s Circle rolls out for the first time at the Gog – an established, local house concert venue owned by Kelly Waters.

Jasmine Bouchard, a Grade 6 student at Ecole Monseigneur Blaise Morand, was asked, along with her classmates, to write about what home means to her.

The Penticton Vees made a bit of history at the Western Canada Cup Sunday.

The Brooks Bandits showed why they are the top ranked Junior A team in the country Saturday night. With a dominant 6-1 win over the British Columbia Hockey League's Chilliwack Chiefs at the South Okanagan Event Centre in Penticton, B.C.

An incredible campaign for the Battlefords North Stars that saw them win the Canalta Cup for the first time in 17 years came to an end Saturday afternoon at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, B.C.

It was out of their hands, but the Battlefords North Stars are still alive at the Western Canada Cup.

The Battlefords North Stars did what they needed to do Thursday afternoon. Now they have to play the waiting game to see if they will qualify for the playoffs at the Western Canada Cup in Penticton, B.C. Saturday.

The long and complicated fraud case against former RM of Meota administrator Maryann Germann has ended with Germann pleading guilty to a lesser offence. Germann had initially faced charges of fraud under 380(1) of the Criminal Code.