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It wasn't quite as busy a year for North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services in 2010, and they are happy about that. Fire fighting activities were down in the city, with 340 calls compared to 415 in 2009.

A tough 2010 crime year came to a close for the Battlefords detachment of the RCMP, which found itself responding to an increasing amount of crime calls during the year. Final statistics for the year were presented by Staff Sgt.

Weldon Parsons is an accomplished writer and poet who creates work, fiction and non-fiction, to share with the world. He now has five novels and two poetry compact discs on the market, with the sixth book in the works.

Jan. 11 at approximately 2 a.m., a 2000 black Volkswagen Passat station wagon with a cargo box on the roof was stolen from 15th Street in Battleford. It was located later that day on 97th Street in North Battleford. Sometime between Jan.

New numbers provided to city councillors Monday at a Municipal Services Committee meeting are indicating a reduction in the amount of garbage being thrown in the trash in the area where new individual rollout bins are being tested.

A new president takes over this week at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce. New president Scott Campbell was officially handed the gavel by outgoing president Leah Milton at Tuesday night's Chamber annual meeting.

An incident in Humboldt has prompted changes in health care facilities across the province.

One of the biggest wintertime events in Saskatchewan will soon be taking centre stage as the 15th annual Jackfish Lake Ice Fishing Derby gets underway Feb. 19.

A mining project in the area has completed another step on its way to production. BHP Billiton submitted the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for its proposed Jansen Potash Project to the provincial Ministry of Environment last month.

In Rob Rinas' math class in Lashburn a student inputs data into his TI-Nspire handheld calculator.