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A Plains Indian Sign Language workshop will take place July 28-Aug. 2 at Chief Poundmaker Museum. Plains Indian sign language has been used by various groups in North America.

Those in downtown Battleford without a watch or phone won’t have to worry about not knowing the time anymore. The Battleford Post Office clock is up and running again, co-owner of the post office Jesse Crozier told the News-Optimist Monday.

Things have not gone entirely smoothly for Northern Ontario wildfire evacuees staying in Saskatchewan.

“Well, this is Saskatchewan, and we’ve all fired at gophers.” That was one of Judge Michelle Brass’s concluding statements in an odd case before her in Estevan Provincial Court on Monday.

While in North Battleford Monday, NDP Leader Ryan Meili raised concerns about how the government has allowed the Valleyview Towers seniors’ housing facility to become unsafe for the seniors living there, says a news release release issued by the NDP.

Saskatchewan RCMP have issued their Craven Country Thunder wrap-up as follows: The Country Thunder Music Festival has wrapped up for another year. Festival guests will be packing up and moving out of the site Monday.

Two individuals arrested for the first degree murder of Mark Douglas Jonson in North Battleford made their first court appearances Monday. David Keller and Nicolas Buck appeared before Judge Murray Pelletier in North Battleford provincial court.

An awareness walk for Ashley Morin, a missing woman now believed to be a homicide victim took place over the weekend. Forming in Saskatoon at 8 a.m.

CNW - The Vancouver Humane Society is calling on the Calgary Stampede to cancel next year's chuckwagon race after three more horses died in the event on the last day of the Stampede. A total of six horses have died in this year's event.

On July 12, at approximately 5:25 p.m., officers from the Waskesiu Lake and Montreal Lake RCMP detachments were called to the scene of a single vehicle rollover in Montreal Lake.