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Nothing shows equality and diversity better than public acceptance of different types of people. Last week at the Humboldt city council meeting, council unanimously proclaimed March 30 to April 5 as Trans* Awareness Week.

A site manager at St. Mary's Villa in Humboldt was one of 11 nominees at the 2014 Saskatchewan Healthcare Excellence Awards, held on March 8 in Regina.

In a tiny apartment tucked away in the corner at the end of a long corridor lives an elderly woman. The place is neat and well kept. Small collectibles adorn a shelf in an organized fashion below a modern TV.

When 12 area high school students traveled to Cuernavaca, Mexico last month, they went to provide a family with one of life's basic essentials: proper housing.

The mess of flyers and unwanted junk mail on the floor of the Canada Post office in Humboldt continues on and suffice to say, employees of the post office are fed up.

Tomorrow is Shift Work Recognition Day in Humboldt and Maureen Lees, a registered nurse (RN) with the Humboldt District Health Complex, can be the first to attest that shift work is not an easy feat.

On the one hand, it's still a long way from a first place finish. On the other hand, it's still a far better showing for North Battleford than last year in the annual Money Sense magazine survey of the Best Places to Live.

There were over 30 calls for service/occurrences responded to by Battlefords RCMP between 6 a.m. Sunday, March 16 and 6 a.m. Monday, March 17 Among those calls were two false alarms and three nuisance 911 calls. Sunday 7:00 a.m.

A huge meteorite that lit up the Northwest's night sky on Nov. 20, 2008 is front and centre of a new temporary exhibit at the Royal Saskatchewan Musuem.

North West Terminal Ltd. of Unity is reporting positive financial results from 2012-13 operations. For the period beginning Nov. 1, 2012 and ending Oct. 31/ 2013, NWT posted a net profit of $4,762,492 or $1.45 per share.