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Issues of ethics in municipal government were front and centre at Battleford town council Monday. At Monday’s meeting council voted on a couple of items aimed at more rigorous public disclosure and code of conduct requirements.

Dear Editor Would Canadian women have the vote today if it could only happen through a referendum? Like all roads not taken, we will never know, but the question does provide guidance on whether we need a referendum for electoral reform of our first-

Married and Catholic priest are words many people are not used to seeing together. Army and priest are also words not usually associated with one another.

Past the middle of January already! Where has the time gone? Today there was a little more snow and forecasts of -30 C. This is just normal January weather, no global warming, no climate change, just January weather in Saskatchewan.

The youth involved in the shooting incident on 110th Street Dec. 3 was handed a lengthy sentence Wednesday in North Battleford Provincial Court.

The days of dictating where indigenous families ought to educate their children are over

Almost three quarters of parents of preschoolers in Canada with autism could not get the help they needed for their children

New England @ Denver The final chapter in the Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning saga is upon us. This will be their fifth matchup in the playoffs, which is the most head-to-head clashes between starting quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.

Over 9,000 people made the trip to the SaskTel Centre to watch some NLL action between the Saskatchewan Rush and the Vancouver Stealth.