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It's that time of year again: the windows are closed more often than open, the house fills with the dusty smell of furnaces that haven't been lit all summer, scarves are making a come-back and winter gear shifts to the front of the closet.

Jenna Welsh, Grade 9-12 science and physics teacher at Carlton Comprehensive High School in Prince Albert, experienced an opportunity to strengthen her teaching skills first hand during a Rock'n the Classroom GeoVenture Saskatchewan Mining Associatio

North Battleford's Parks, Recreation, Culture and Heritage Committee met Monday and approved four community grant during the session.

The second of two buildings moved were on to a new site Sept. 16 to begin the process of eventually baling and selling recycled newsprint and cardboard in Radisson.

RCMP in Colonsay continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Victor Mateyshin, an 84-year-old man from the community of Bruno.

Three individuals charged in the treaty land entitlement fraud case at Mosquito First Nation are planning to go to trial. Chief Clarence Stone, Clifford Spyglass and Gerald Bird have all elected to be tried in Court of Queen's Bench by judge alone.

Just $145,000. That's what the Humboldt District Hospital Foundation (HDHF) had left to raise in their $1.8 million Our Legacy, Our Future equipment campaign at the beginning of this week.

Hit and runs aren't so unusual in the Battlefords - but when the victim is the leader of the Liberal Party in Saskatchewan it is. Provincial leader Ryan Bater said his vehicle was smashed up in a hit-and-run on the evening of Sept. 15..

NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter took aim at Premier Brad Wall and his government on a range of provincial issues last Thursday night at the Western Development Museum.

Len Taylor says he still has the enthusiasm to keep going with a two-decades-long political career that started in 1988.