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It was easier to run with the wind than against it but athletes bravely faced it both ways last week at the Battle River Division Track and Field Meet.

Everyone has their grammatical bugbears. For one of my grammar teachers, it was splitting infinitives. He could never understand why anyone, really, would be compelled to not follow this most basic grammatical rule.

No one ever promised completion of the Credit Union CUPlex was going to be smooth. There was good news and not so good news in the latest Credit Union CUPlex update from administration Monday.

Think of it as the perfect way to spend a sunny Tuesday afternoon. A wide variety of individuals and local organizations came together to help with a tree-planting program spearheaded by two Battleford Lions Clubs.

There was no sugar-coating the facts at Maidstone High School's SADD event this week.

The second part of the local area senior baseball teams previews comes the same week the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League season begins.

Long weekend coming up - has this weather inspired you to plant your garden or deterred you from setting out on your first camping trip? UCHS hosted their big 50th anniversary celebrations yesterday! UCHS staff, students and alumni hosted guests for

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I would like to thank the two young people who stopped and helped my teenage daughter after our one-year-old Sheltie was hit on Territorial Drive Monday at lunch time.

Police presence in the downtown and the armed robberies were top topics in a Chamber meeting with the RCMP. In their regular meeting Tuesday, Battlefords Chamber of Commerce directors heard from Sgt.