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Prairie North Health Region is receiving $2,767,521 from the Saskatchewan government to improve the quality and safety of surgical care while increasing patients' access to surgery, according to a PNHR press release.

The first spring session for the new NDP leader Cam Broten is now in the books.

There's no provincial funding for the project, but the Living Sky School Division board of education has given its approval to administration to call for tenders on renovations to the North Battleford Comprehensive High School to accommodate relocati

Blaine Lake Gospel Chapel hosted a ladies' brunch May 11. The organizational committee did a commendable job on decorations, seating arrangements and bountiful food items.

My path to Humboldt has been an unlikely one. I never expected to be working in a small town. It's not that I've never spent time in small places - my parents are both from tiny Stewiacke, Nova Scotia and my grandmother still lives there.

Crime reduction top priority for 2013/14

Bully. Victim. Bystander. These are labels Living Sky School Division is moving away from in its initiatives to mitigate bullying. While the Ministry of Education has an Anti-Bully Initiative, Living Sky has a program of "enhanced student behaviours.

A big prairie hello to the city of Humboldt. I grew up in Ottawa, so more than a stone's throw away but I already feel a special kinship to the province of Saskatchewan.

The history of Humboldt is, in many ways, the history of the railroad. That connection was made clear on Monday by two significant events.

North Battleford has given the green light to a pocket housing project within the city.