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One of the worst human afflictions is the "It'll never happen to me" syndrome. Maybe this condition is behind the Statistics Canada reported 121 deaths from impaired driving in 2011.

The route of the Battleford parade will be changed up this year. It will begin and end at Fort Battleford, unlike previous years when it formed up on the track behind St. Vital School.

The breeze went down and the warmth of the day's sun kept the weather perfect for the pool party held on the Unity Credit Union parking lot the evening of May 30.

Battleford firefighters got a raise Monday evening retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year. Battleford Town Council approved a recommendation from Fire Chief Larry Gabruch to raise the current firefighting rate from $18 to $19 an hour.

Lucien Lake is stepping out of Humboldt's shadows and into the spotlight. The community's local Communities in Bloom (CIB) committee has entered the area's Water's Edge subdivision into the provincial competition.

Unity Composite High School's student leadership council ran several projects at the beginning of the school year to not only raise cancer awareness, but also as fundraisers.

North Battleford was the first stop Monday in province-wide consultations to discuss anti-bullying strategies.

Hopefully by the time you read this, this whole Mayor Rob Ford cocaine video scandal will be over. Hopefully Ford will have resigned. Hopefully Ford will have been impeached. Hopefully Ford will have been exonerated. I don't care what it is.

The Battlefords is the latest stop for a TV production effort dedicated to capturing the voices of Canada's armed forces veterans.

A man died in a single vehicle rollover in the town of Unity Saturday. Unity RCMP say the vehicle rolled at about 2 a.m. just a few hundred metres from the Unity Health Centre.