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Column: Virginia creeper can grow 30 to 40 feet

Hanbidge on Horticulture: Take care to not grow the vines directly on buildings.

Oct 2, 2022 1:14 PM Read more >

Midwest Food Resources is finishing this year's harvest

More than 100 asparagus crowns are planted for the spring.

Oct 2, 2022 12:32 PM Read more >

Regina artist exhibits in North Battleford; says gallery is a "gem"

Bruce Anderson says art is a lifetime vocation and a full-time thought process.

Oct 2, 2022 11:12 AM Read more >

North Battleford's Railway Ave. W. now officially Pēyak Trail

Pēyak means ‘one’ in Cree and was chosen specifically to show that reconciliation has just begun in the Battlefords.

Oct 1, 2022 3:28 PM Read more >

Sunchild Law hosts 10th Annual Battleford Industrial School Cemetery Walk

Speakers addressed the importance of remembrance, reconciliation, and recognizing the intergenerational impacts of residential schools.

Oct 1, 2022 1:58 PM Read more >

Column: Mars get brighter and brighter throughout October

Saskatchewan Skies: Two shadows of Jupiter’s Galilean moons are visible against the gas giant’s cloud tops Oct. 12, 19, and 26.

Oct 1, 2022 11:39 AM Read more >

Truth and reconciliation at the forefront Friday

A teepee was built on the hill above the city and was lit with orange lights until midnight on Sept. 30.

Sep 30, 2022 10:55 PM Read more >

Crookedneck sentenced to 3 years for North Battleford apartment fire

Sep 30, 2022 9:12 PM Read more >

Opinion: Trudeau can't stop himself from embarrassing us

The latest theatre of the absurd from Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has received mixed reviews.

Sep 30, 2022 5:05 PM Read more >

Inquest to be held into death of Sask. Penitentiary inmate

Curtis McKenzie was found unresponsive in his cell on Feb. 26, 2020, and was pronounced deceased in hospital March 9, 2020.

Sep 30, 2022 3:26 PM Read more >