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A judicial ruling last month has raised alarms about contracts awarded on Red Pheasant First Nation.

Disclaimer: With the exception of total annual calls received and staff numbers, all other totals in the following article are based on a count by the writer and were not provided by RCMP.

A cooking fire Saturday just before 8 p.m. resulted in a call out for North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services personnel. The fire, at 10802 Winder Cres., was confined to the cooking pot.

City employees will be seeing some changes in the future. Humboldt City Council approved a Standards of Conduct policy for city employees during a regular council meeting on November 26.

First Nations education is the focus of a new exhibit opening up at the Western Development Museum this December. It is a component to the Winning the Prairie Gamble exhibit entitled "Born with a Drum," and opens Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

Winter started early in Saskatchewan coming 10 days before the end of October. The weather has been relentless, delivering snow, freezing rain, blowing snow which all adds up to winter driving conditions on our roads.

With the early winter in Saskatchewan and already a number of days authorities have been advising against highway travel, it was time to find out how and when highways are cleared after a snowfall and what travel advisories really mean.

All communities across Canada are dealing with how to manage their assets. Last week, the City of Humboldt hosted another Asset Management training session at the Humboldt Uniplex.

It's the dead of winter in Saskatchewan as a lone car travels down a highway. A swirl of snow sails across the windshield, obscuring the vision of the driver behind the wheel. He shouldn't be going so fast, but he is impatient.

A vehicle parked on the 100 block of 29th Street in Battleford had gas siphoned out of its gas tank Nov. 30. This is not the first incident involving gas theft in the area. Nov.