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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken down yet another popular event in the Battlefords. The annual July 1 Canada Day fireworks in North Battleford are not going ahead.

MELFORT — Melfort Fire extinguished a blaze consuming a car in the alley behind Shoppers Drug Mart on Main Street in Melfort. Melfort Fire responded to the call on June 12 at 1:49 p.m.

The case against an Onion Lake man facing child porn charges was adjourned again due to the COVID-19 pandemic. James Gabriel Buffalo, 33, is charged with possession of, and accessing child pornography.

Sentencing for a man convicted earlier this year in a Saskatoon court on attempted murder was postponed again. Cory Smockum, 38, was supposed to be sentenced in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench on June 17 but the sentencing was adjourned.

The COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t stop the Wayne Pruden Memorial Golf Tournament — a virtual tournament, that is. Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation announced it wrapped up the 2020 Virtual Wayne Pruden Memorial Golf Tournament on June 12 .

HUMBOLDT — While the recent storm has caused some property damage, according to the City of Humboldt, the sewer and drainage system is recovering without any damage to the lines or stations.

On June 14, shortly after midnight, La Ronge RCMP were dispatched to the report of an unconscious male located on Queen Street in Lac La Ronge First Nation.

June once meant hundreds of pounds of walleye flopping on the deck of John Beatty’s small fishing boat on Deschambault Lake.

The province released their full budget, which includes large investments for education and healthcare. The June 15 budget showed an investment of $749 million towards advanced education, $2.6 billion for the Ministry of Education and $5.

Saskatchewan’s provincial budget “missed the mark,” Leader of the Official Opposition Ryan Meili told media The NDP leader said at a media conference June 15 the budget is a “placeholder pre-election budget” that presents no recovery plan for the peo