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A Nipawin woman is hoping to jumpstart a support group for caregivers of people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Alvina Melenchenko has two granddaughters with the disorder.

City council has moved forward with updating its cemetery bylaw. The proposed changes were introduced at Planning Committee last Tuesday, and was slated for three readings and passage Monday night at North Battleford city council.

Tourists on their way through North Battleford will need to find somewhere else to go to the washroom as of March 1.

Officials at City Hall are expressing pride over the accomplishments of one particular group of individuals in the community. That group is the Battlefords North Stars hockey team, who have clinched first place in the SJHL regular season standings.

Concerns about the North American Free Trade Agreement in the wake of the election of US president Donald Trump promise to be front and centre at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.

Fresh on the heels of landing some major events and launching some major branding initiatives, Destination Battlefords is looking ahead to a promising 2017.

Here are some additional highlights from the Feb. 13 meeting of city council: The city of North Battleford has completed and released a wastewater treatment plant environmental risk assessment report.

News that the Ontario Superior Court has ruled in favor of litigants in the class action lawsuit on the “Sixties Scoop” comes as good news to the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations executive.

An estimate of costs of the Husky Energy oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River have now been released by the company. In a management discussion and analysis released Friday by Husky, the company stated that as of Dec.

The Northern Lights Palace pool now has a new booking policy that clarifies when the pool is available to rent, which groups get first priority and cancellations. The new policy was passed at a City of Melfort council meeting Feb. 13.