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Financial statements for the first four months of the 2011-12 fiscal year show Prairie North Health Region with budget surplus of $243 million, PNRH Authority board members were advised at an Aug. 31 meeting in Meadow Lake.

A Glaslyn company has pled guilty to one count under The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act in North Battleford Provincial Court. L & M Wood Products Limited Partnership was fined $10,000.

Progress in physician recruitment throughout Prairie North Health Region continues according to a report to the PNHR Authority board at a regular meeting in Meadow Lake Aug.

Battlefords Residential Services Inc. is welcoming the announcement of $750,000 from the province towards building two new group homes in North Battleford. The group homes are for people with intellectual disabilities.

North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services personnel were busy last week with a series of accidents and spills that resulted in one hospitalization. Sept.

The story of Pine Island Suites is a success story, a story of caring and a story continuing into the future. In 2008 volunteers purchased and began renovating Maidstone's former Pine Island Lodge long term care facility.

Battleford Town Hall has signed a contract with Dean Bauche to pursue funding for the Battleford Opera House. Dean Bauche is the former director of galleries for North Battleford and has deep connections to the Battlefords arts community.

A man is dead after what Spiritwood RCMP are describing as a hunting accident. The 57-year-old Ramger district resident was found deceased with a single gunshot wound to his chest area at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Cecile Hunt, chief executive officer of the Prince Albert Parkland Health, announced the appointment of Cheryl Elliott as the new vice-president of finance.

In a perfect world, it would have been a new, perhaps bigger, school.