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When he was 10, Maxence Palkowski’s brother went on a Rotary student exchange to Japan and a Japanese and Taiwanese student came to live with him. He got to see what a student exchange is like and the visitors became like sisters to him.

The fish may not have been biting but that did not stop a record number of fishers to participate in the ninth annual Lake Lenore Lions Club Ice Fishing Derby held in Lenore Lake on Jan. 20.

Kaden Opp and Tyrell Wenig are more comfortable on the ice their second time around with the Carrot River Outback Thunder. The two 19-year-olds are contributing in their second seasons with the Prairie Junior Hockey League team.

Fire crews were on the scene Thursday afternoon responding to a house fire on the 1200 block of 110th Street. North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services received the call at about 2:39 pm.

The councils of the three largest Northeast communities will be allowing legalized cannabis retailers to set up shop. The Saskatchewan government announced Jan.

The much-anticipated second-degree murder trial of Gerald Stanley begins Monday in Battleford. Stanley is the man accused of shooting and killing Colten Boushie, of Red Pheasant First Nation, on private property in the RM of Glenside in August 2016.

On Christmas morning, Jay Bru found a stroller through a window of one of the properties he owns in the city. After talking to neighbours, he found nine other windows had been smashed in the area overnight.

The City of North Battleford is not going to prevent SLGA-licensed retail outlets for cannabis from setting up in the city.

A man has been charged after he allegedly brought a firearm into Hudson Bay Provincial Court. An officer of the Hudson Bay RCMP was alerted Jan. 23 and Donald Cory Schulz was arrested when he left the court building without incident.

Competition season is coming up for the figure skaters with Skate Tisdale, so that organization arranged a competition simulation to prepare.