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Crown Hill 4-H Beef Club held their achievement day June 19 at the farmyard of Trent and Caley Letkeman at Hepburn.

Two years ago in late spring, I decided on a new strawberry patch, fenced to exclude my large strawberry-loving dog. A local nursery recommended Seascape. I took their advice and put in a row of 25 plants. They soon began producing.

At its president's windup banquet Monday, the Rotary Club of the Battlefords looked back at another busy year and announced its annual Integrity Award winner.

While some school divisions in Saskatchewan have resorted to cutting teachers and other staff to balance their budgets, Living Sky School Division has announced it has not gone this route.

It has been an active sitting of the Saskatchewan legislature for Battlefords MLA Herb Cox so far in 2016. Cox has been kept busy fending off one opposition attack after another related to his cabinet portfolio, the environment ministry.

Gardening to entice other critters into your garden can be challenging, but also rewarding.

Brexit made one thing perfectly clear: nation-states and support of the national interest are not dead

Any attempt by the Trudeau government to do so without consent from the electorate may be unconstitutional because it breaks conventional practice

The City has announced that North Battleford Fire Department will test the flow of fire hydrants starting July 11 in the neighborhoods of Killdeer Park, Fairview Heights, College Heights and Deanscroft.

The fraud case against former RM of Meota administrator Maryann Germann will return to court in the fall.