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There are 112 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on November 11, 2020, bringing the provincial total to date to 4,326 cases. None of the new cases are in Saskatchewan residents tested out of province.

Not even a raging pandemic could stop Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 70 from honouring the Veterans on Remembrance Day Nov. 11. At 11 a.m.

In the Second World War, a group of young Canadian airmen, mostly from this region, became a big band that played with music's top names — even Glenn Miller approved — and brought a welcome boost and 'taste of home' to our troops fighting in Europe.

Tanya Ward-Schur believes positive changes are coming. And that’s why Ward-Schur, the community facilitator for Urban Aboriginal Voices, a non-profit organization based in Red Deer, Alta.

The federal government will be requiring all entrants to Canada to self-report their health and quarantine arrangements using the ArriveCAN app prior to arrival.

The National Council of Veteran Associations in Canada last month called for dramatic action amidst what it called a “perfect storm” of existing backlogs and COVID-19.

A familiar face in Northwest politics made a political comeback in the municipal elections on Monday. Indeed, former Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz has been elected reeve of the rural municipality of Mervin.

One hundred and two years ago, on November 11th at 11 a.m., an Armistice agreement ended the First World War.

McKitrick School Principal Amanda Risling has shared the school’s Remembrance Day Ceremony in North Battleford with the News-Optimist. She says, “Due to Covid we had to do things different.

There aren’t many veterans around anymore to tell the story of what went on during World War II, but one of them lives here in North Battleford. Her name is Pat Hargrave, who will be 98 next February.