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UPDATE: Gregory Dubois has been found safe and sound in Regina. Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 15-year-old who’s been missing since the end of November.

NIPAWIN — Partnerships were a big focus this past year for Nipawin’s mayor, which she calls “the underpinning of everything that we’re doing”.

The year 2018 was tremendous for construction activities in the Battlefords. Both Battleford and North Battleford saw spikes in building permits issued.

By Dan Kraus Senior Conservation Biologist Nature Conservancy of Canada People living in the northern hemisphere have brought trees and boughs into their homes during the winter for thousands of years.

UPDATE: As of Friday, RCMP continue to look for leads on the two suspects who robbed a store in North Battleford early Thursday morning. BACKGROUND: On Thursday at 1:28 a.m.

HUMBOLDT — The city is looking at implementing a business license program that would see around 200 business pay an extra $100. A discussion about the program is to take place in February, with council approval or denial given afterward.

ARCHERWILL — An Archerwill resident is the province’s newest millionaire. Dick Davis resident won $1 million on his $21 Lotto Max lottery ticket, brought at the Archerwill Co-op Bulk Service on Highway 35.

There are recycling programs for your Christmas tree in both the city of North Battleford and the town of Battleford. The City of North Battleford is once again offering to recycle Christmas trees into chips for mulch.

The Battlefords Union Hospital welcomed its New Year’s baby at 12:35 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2. Jesse Michael Wurz was born to Michelle and Jerry Wurz at BUH, officially making him the Battlefords’ first baby of 2019.

It did not take long for the firearms offences to get started in North Battleford in 2019.