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EAST CENTRAL — School will remain open within the Horizon School Division, but there’s a certain temperature when school buses stop running. “When we reach a temperature of -40°C, or -45°C with a wind chill, our buses are required to not run.

MELFORT— The Melfort Municipal Health Advocacy Committee has kicked off community fundraising for the Melfort STARS heliport, asking for both cash and in-kind donations.

UPDATE: Wednesday in Onion Lake, Joshua Albin Lecky-Harper was arrested. BACKGROUND: Meadow Lake RCMP is asking the public for their assistance in locating two suspects who fled from police on Jan. 4. On that day, at approximately 4:40 p.m.

There may be issues in other communities of councillors not showing up for meetings, but that cannot be said for Battleford. Town council had a good attendance record in 2019, according to numbers cited by Mayor Ames Leslie last week.

The City of North Battleford has voted in favour of entering a five-year agreement with Access Communications for Wi-Fi at city recreational facilities, the Dekker Centre and City Hall.

RCMP have announced four people have been charged in connection to the death of 28-year-old Sheena Marie Billette of La Ronge. Sheena was found on Highway 102, seven kilometers north of La Ronge, on Dec. 23.

A man charged with second-degree murder on Thunderchild First Nation made another brief provincial court appearance by video Tuesday. Ivor Wapass is charged in connection to the death of Roger Standingwater on Sept. 15 of last year.

TISDALE — According to organizers, 149 youth in the community have currently signed up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Canada for February.

New preliminary hearing dates have been scheduled for one of the two individuals charged with the first-degree murder of Mark Jonson in North Battleford, Nicolas Buck had previously been scheduled for a preliminary hearing beginning Feb. 11.

The 2020 operations and capital budget for the City of North Battleford has been adopted. The budget was approved in a unanimous vote by council Monday.