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History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

A contributing factor to the deplorable housing conditions may be a lack of property rights on reserve

This Good Turn Week – April 22 to May 1 – North Battleford is going to get a valuable lesson about the effects of water pollution. And who are the teachers? Why, the local 2nd North Battleford Scout group and a bunch of yellow fish.

North Battleford Fire Department responded to two vehicle crashes on the weekend. Friday firefighters were called to a crash between two small vehicles at 1902 - 97th Street at about 8:20 p.m.

It is four more years for Premier Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party. Polls closed across Saskatchewan in the provincial election at 8 p.m. Monday and news organizations were quick to project a Saskatchewan Party majority government.

Garden Chat

Hanbidge on Horticulture

Lillian Edna MacDonald, (October 17, 1919 - March 25, 2016). It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lillian Edna Macdonald (nee: Jenkins).

I was really struggling to come up with a topic for this month’s News Watch column. But so many of the topics were boring — provincial politics, federal politics. And then there’s U.S.

A video has gone viral on the Internet of a major scuffle in the stands at the end of Tuesday's Wilkie Outlaws-Biggar Nationals SWHL championship game in Unity.