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There are plenty of uncontrollable factors those in the Ag industry must deal with every year, from weather to unpredictable market trends. This year brought more than anybody could have expected with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting Canada in March.

A man charged in connection to a violent home invasion in Unity remains in custody while he waits for a trial. A trial date for Drayden Clinton, 25, hasn’t been rescheduled yet. A trial was scheduled for Sept. 14 but it was adjourned until Dec. 16.

Alleged Westside Outlaws street gang members who took police on a 150-kilometre chase in November remain behind bars.

EAST CENTRAL — Starting in January, people buying batteries in the province will pay an environmental handling fee, and will be able to deposit used batteries at any SARCAN.

One wonders why we should even bother doing a review of the big stories in the Battlefords from the year 2020. No one wants to relive the events of 2020, a year most people want to see flushed down the drain as quickly as possible.

4,832 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered

Joe Hargrave, MLA for Prince Albert Carlton, recently resigned as Saskatchewan Highways Minister after making a trip to Palm Springs, California in late December landed him in a public storm given the general public has been urged to stay home to con

EAST CENTRAL — Fred Bradshaw, Saskatchewan Party legislature member for Carrot River Valley, has been officially sworn in as Minister of Highways and Minister responsible for the Water Security Agency.

It turned out to be a year of upheaval at City Hall in North Battleford. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated the year, as it upended regular council meetings and the normal business of the municipal government.

On Jan 5, family members who had been searching locations around Rose Valley for a missing man located him deceased in a field in the Municipality of Bjorkdale.