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Demonstrators were marching in the streets of North Battleford in support of Black Lives Matter on Tuesday. The protest march began at 4 p.m.

A Virden man is trying to raise $100,000 on GoFundMe for a legal challenge to a new federal firearms ban, and is halfway to his fundraising goal after a few days.

The easing of travel restrictions in northwestern Saskatchewan on Monday was a firm reminder of the hard-fought lessons northern leaders gleaned during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NIPAWIN — A car was sent approximately 200 feet off the road after colliding with a moose on Highway 35 north of Nipawin. Nipawin Fire responded to the call in the evening of June 7.

The province announced Tuesday it would be resuming in-classroom learning for kindergarten to grade 12 students for the upcoming school year.

Prekindergarten to Grade 12 students and staff will be returning to classroom for the 2020-21 school year, the provincial government announced.

There are two new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan to report on June 9, bringing the provincial total to 656. One new case is in the Saskatoon region and one in the Far North region.

A new playground structure is coming to Senator Herb Sparrow Park in the fall. The new structure will be put in place by the end of September and will replace the existing structure at the park.

The celebrations aren’t going to take place in the usual way in the Battlefords for National Indigenous People’s Day on June 21.

North Battleford is one of the many communities seeing Black Lives Matter protests after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.