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The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce are standing behind truckers seeking changes to the City of North Battlefords new traffic bylaw.

The Hafford centennial committee has been working diligently planning for the Rural Municipality of Redberry and Town of Hafford's centennial celebrations in 2013.

The deadline to submit nomination papers came and went at 4 p.m. Sept. 19, and with the dust settled, it seems Battleford is in for an interesting election in October.

Unity Public School and Cut Knife Elementary School will be the sixth and seventh schools to receive iPads as part of the One-to-One Learning program instituted by the Living Sky School Division.

Sask.'s biggest hog producer goes into receivership

A driver has been fined $834 and their vehicle impounded after being clocked in at 194 km/h on Highway 12 between Martensville and Saskatoon just after midnight Saturday.

The building permits report for August 2012 in North Battleford is in line with what it was in August 2011 in North Battleford.

Twenty North Battleford drivers have been fined over two days for exceeding the new 30 km/h speed cap in the city's school zones. Battlefords RCMP say they focused on enforcement of the zones Monday and Tuesday this week.

The Caleb Group, which builds retirement communities across Canada, was in North Battleford Sept. 10 to talk to residents about their plans for a building here.

It is no mystery that drop-out rates in Saskatchewan are higher than they should be. Saskatchewan's rates, at 9.2 per cent for the 2009-2012 period, are above the Canadian average.