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Electricity in Humboldt and the surrounding area will be going out for system maintenance. The power is to go off in Humboldt, Bruno, Middle Lake, St. Benedict, Lake Lenore, Annaheim, St. Gregor and Muenster on Sept. 18 at 5 am.

The Horizon School Division is close to meeting the province’s literacy goals. By 2020, the education ministry wants 80 per cent of the province’s Grade 3 students reading and writing at grade level – or exceeding it.

NIPAWIN — The town will be signing a co-operation and communication protocol with the Cumberland House Cree Nation. “This is a new initiative.

Tuesday, Sept. 18 all three Discovery Co-op gas bars in the Battlefords, will be celebrating “Fuel Good” Day. For every litre of fuel purchased that day, from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m., $0.06 will be donated to Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation.

Individuals face many challenges at all ages. Throughout all the challenges in life, the most difficult is burying a child. It happens and it happened to the Duhaimes of Meota three years ago when Cody Duhaime took his own life.

St.Walburg RCMP notifed motorists at 8:40 p.m. Saturday evening that Highway 26, 18 km north of St.Walburg, would be closed for several hours. The RCMP and emergency services were at the scene of a two-vehicle injury collision.

It was an important and necessary step. And after years of wishing and waiting, Futuristic Industries has a new home to call their own.

Ten people were transported to hospital late Friday afternoon with undetermined injuries after a semi-tractor/trailer unit hauling grain collided with a bus carrying crew workers at the intersection of Highways 21, 31 and 51, on the northwest edge of

The individual arrested in connection to a shooting incident on Moosomin First Nation will make his next court appearance Sept. 24 by closed-circuit TV. Jonathan Swiftwolfe appeared briefly in North Battleford provincial court Wednesday by CCTV.

NORTHEAST — The federal and provincial governments will be paying two-thirds of the cost to upgrade Carrot River, Arborfield and Tobin Lake’s water treatment systems.