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SaskTel has announced residents of Rabbit Lake will now be able to enjoy of SaskTel High Speed Internet service.

Two streets will be having work done on them most of Aug. 6. The 1400 and 1500 blocks of 110th Street will be partially closed all day for patching. From 2301 to 2502 Killdeer Drive will be closed all day to repair a catch basin.

Two males, one adult and one youth, both of North Battleford, were taken into custody Wednesday and were to appear in North Battleford Provincial Court on Aug. 7 after a robbery complaint. At 1:20 a.m. Aug.

Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder stopped in North Battleford on the way to a major event this weekend. That event was the Wounded Warriors Weekend in Slave Lake, Alta., Aug. 2 to 4.

A protest was held at North Battleford City Hall on Saturday afternoon, as members of the Assyrian community voiced their opposition to the persecution of Assyrian Christians by the jihadist ISIS campaign in Iraq.

More than 40 calls were made to the North Battleford RCMP between 6 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 3 and 6 a.m. Monday, Aug. 4.

Federal agriculture minister and Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz has announced the arrival of some new federal regulations in connection to the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act.

1400 Block of 110th Street will be closed for the afternoon to all traffic.

North Battleford Fire Department responded to a round bale fire about 16 kilometres east on Highway 16 at 3:25 a.m. Tuesday morning. Two vehicles and eight personnel responded and were on the scene for about a half hour.

A Canada-wide warrant was issued for a man involved in a kidnapping investigation. Fox Creek RCMP officers responded to a complaint of a woman who was abducted by a man with a firearm shortly after 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4.