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The April crime statistics report for the Battlefords RCMP detachment was more of the same — with numbers still slowly creeping up for most crime categories in the city.

The STARS air ambulance service in Saskatchewan is raising money — and awareness — with the launch of their 2015 STARS Lottery. Two new homes — one in Saskatoon and the other in Regina — are being offered as grand prizes. Each home is valued at $1.

The Saskatchewan government is patting itself on the back for its innovative solution to the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) wait list problem.

With spring being seeding and gardening time, weeds are going to become an issue in the province. What landowners may not know is that certain plants must be reported and then removed. The majority of weeds in Saskatchewan came from somewhere else.

About 3.3 million Canadians have been diagnosed with diabetes, which translates to 93,000 in Canada. In order to raise funds and awareness for this issue, volunteers will be going door to door in Humboldt until May 15.

The 78th Humboldt Music Festival came to a close with a performance and awards night at the Marysburg Alliance Church on May 7. Organizer Tanya Schuler is happy with how the event went over all this year. “Festival went great again this year.

Battlefords RCMP responded to more than 140 calls for between 6 a.m. Sunday, May 17 and 6 a.m. Wednesday, May 18. Sunday • A 25-year-old man is facing charges of impaired driving and driving while over .

Canadian soldiers dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been in the news a lot lately: from Huffington Post’s article about spouses of soldiers with PTSD to numerous articles about treatment wait times and insufficient assistance fr

Send us your farm stories and photos! Farms don’t seem to be anything special these days. They’re just a part of life; something that came from out past and will endure into our future if only to feed the masses.

May is Speech and Hearing Awareness month and now is the time for all hearing people to think about the challenged faced by deaf people.