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Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation has announced Fortress Windows & Doors’ support of the 2019 Festival of Trees’ Gala Evening, “Our people … Our place.

BATC Community Development Corporation is again a sponsor for the 24th annual Festival of Trees, with funds being directed to Family Day.

The Correctional Service of Canada says on Nov. 24 at approximately 8:30 p.m., following an evening count in the minimum-security unit at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary, staff members discovered that offender James Fred Katsiris was not accounted for.

The stories of First Nations elders in the Battlefords and area has been captured in a new book launched this week. Battle River Treaty 6 Health Services Wellness Department has launched the book Wahkohtowin- Nehiyaw Relations .

The Holodomor Genocide Memorial event Nov. 20 at the Chapel Gallery was a collaboration between the Battlefords Ukrainian Cultural Council, the Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee and the Chapel Gallery.

Avery Donahue and her grandmother, Judy Pruden, were driving by the Battleford Lions Park in Battleford one day and an idea struck her that the trees in the park should have lights on them.

Carbon coating that extends battery capacity 50% in lithium ion batteries could pave the way for next-generation batteries in electric vehicles.

Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation is receiving support from SaskTel in the amount of $1,650 for sponsorship of the 2019 Festival of Trees.

Friday, Nov. 22, between 12:30 and 1: p.m, two firearms were stolen from a vehicle from a rural yard site near Radisson. The owners of the firearms had been hunting and stopped for a lunch break storing the firearms in a vehicle.

‘The brutality of the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults is a widespread tragedy that affects every corner of society’