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Delegates to the upcoming Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention will have several resolutions on their plate once again.

A campaign backed by the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is claiming 496 people in the Battlefords have signed a petition opposing privatization.

Geraldine Wallace, October 24, 1920 – January 8, 2016. Geraldine passed away peacefully with her family by her side at the age of 95 on January 8, 2016.

The provincial New Democrats are putting more candidates in place in the Northwest region prior to the April 4 provincial election.

Election results have been announced by the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce. Ten candidates were in the running for spots on their board of directors and seven were elected to two-year terms.

Queens Bench Court in Battleford was not the beehive of activity many expected it would be this week. The dates of Jan. 11 to 15 were set aside last summer for what was anticipated to be the second-degree murder trial of Nicholas Giroux.

No one was injured when a five-ton truck hauling a water tank and a train collided at a level crossing in the RM of Paynton Monday at about 2:15 p.m.

Sheryl Ballendine has retired to a home at the lake, but she's not one to sit still. "You'll see me around. I'm not going to become a hermit," she told fellow co-workers at the 2015 Town of Battleford Christmas party. Ballendine retired Dec.

City of North Battleford Historic Archives volunteers are getting ready for an eighth annual Archives Week presentation. The presentations will be set up at the DiscoveryCo-op Territorial Place Mall Thursday, Feb. 4 from noon to 6 p.m.