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Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) hosted a delegation from its partner biosphere reserve in Germany at a presentation celebrating the joint brochure entitled Partners in the World Network, Sept. 25.

Board members and senior staff of Living Sky School Division had a chance to air some of their concerns in a meeting recently with area MLAs. Attending a Sept.

Once again the Battlefords News-Optimist is inviting all council candidates to participate in an all-candidates profile page for the upcoming civic election.

North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services is hosting Fire Prevention week next week, hoping to send a message to residents to "have two ways out." The activities begin Saturday and run through Oct.

Nominations closed Sept. 19 for elections in rural municipalities across Saskatchewan, and a number of races are already over.

The Maurice Vellacott MP mobile office unit has once again hit the road as Tim Vellacott, public relations assistant, heads out to rural areas of the constituency to listen to the issues at hand with its constituents.

Living Sky School Division board members aren't happy about using their provincial funding to subsidize the cost of educating students for which the federal government is responsible.

You can't hide from the law; not even in Saskatchewan.That was proved last week when one of the top suspects sought in relation to the 2011 Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver was arrested in Lanigan.

With only one more town council meeting before the Oct. 24 election, there was some minor business to take care of at the Monday Battleford town council meeting. The town received a letter, dated Sept.

"With the support of thousands of Canadians, they're working together to achieve this monumental milestone, one step at a time," was the statement by Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Telus as part of the Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes fundraisi