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MELFORT — Melfort RCMP are asking for help to identify a man in connection with a shoplifting incident at the Melfort Liquor Store. On Jan. 16 the suspect was seen shoplifting an item from the store.

Battleford’s population is inching closer to 5,000, but town officials say city status comes with a price. Battleford Chief Administrative Officer John Enns-Wind called city status “a legal fiction.

Submitted The RCMP are looking for candidates for the Aboriginal Pre-Cadet Training Program.

North Battleford’s mayor and council had good things to say about the recent nationally-televised curling event. The Meridian Canadian Open, an event of the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling season, took place from Jan. 8 to 13 at the Civic Centre.

NORTHEAST — Thanks to a complete complement of drivers and good weather, there hasn’t been a lot of school bus cancellations over the fall At the Jan.

SNC-Lavalin has been selected by Graham Capital Partners LP as the facility manager for the Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford, a provincial psychiatric facility.

The City of Humboldt will not fund an regional effort to hire a contractor that will look at the needs and gaps that could be filled by new investors.

Proposed changes to the city’s zoning bylaw will allow new churches to require less parking. The current bylaw requires churches to have three parking spots for every 10 seats.

Having collected almost $12,700 in connection to the Humboldt Broncos crash, city council voted to pass the money on to where it was intended to go.

NORTHEAST — There hasn’t been any new clubroot-infested fields in the Northeast since the disease was detected north of Nipawin in 2017, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.