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On Dec. 25 at 8:30 a.m., Battlefords RCMP responded to a complaint of domestic violence at a residence on the 800 block of 109th Street, North Battleford.

Sponsored by the Battlefords News-Optimist, Discovery Co-op and the North Battleford Lions Club, the 2017 Citizen of the Year and Junior Citizen of the Year award winner are now officially announced.

Sponsored by the Battlefords News-Optimist, Discovery Co-op and the North Battleford Lions Club, the 2017 Citizen of the Year and Junior Citizen of the Year award winner are now officially announced.

A freelance journalist contacted Battlefords Publishing the other day, not to try to sell us a story, but to offer us a free story with a North Battleford connection because it might help him reach out to a woman he met recently on a train in Switzer

Here are a few items to come from the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce’s Dec. 19 meeting, the final one for 2017: Some big changes may be in store for the titles of officers on the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce.

For New Democrat leadership candidate Ryan Meili , it was curing patients of illness while working as a family doctor and then sending them back into the conditions that made them sick that got him into politics.

This was the scene last Wednesday afternoon at Gold Eagle Casino at an event celebrating Indigenous youth in the community.

Battlefords Interval House has received a big donation of warm winter clothes as part of SaskEnergy’s “Share the Warmth” initiatives. The clothes were collected during the Festival of Trees event put on by the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation.

There is a new publisher at Battlefords Publishing. He is Gordon Brewerton, who comes to the Battlefords from his most recent position in Prince Albert.

A former teacher that spent much of his time supporting youth transitioning out of the criminal justice system and keeping kids in school is running for the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democrats.