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City councillors voiced shock and surprise Tuesday night at how much over-budget the cost will be to connect three groundwater wells at the Water Treatment Plant No.1. The cost of connecting the wells will be over a half-million over budget.

It did not take long for New Democratic Party leader Dwain Lingenfelter to make his way to the Battlefords in this election campaign. Just two days after the provincial election was called by Premier Brad Wall Oct.

City councillors expressed their concern at Tuesday's meeting about the amount of speeding that goes on in school zones in the city.

Local residents of the Battlefords didn't need much of a reminder this year about how important fire prevention activities are.

Occupy Wall Street is coming to the Battlefords in the form of Occupy the Battlefords Oct. 15 between 10 a.m. and 12 at Territorial Mall. The movement, which began as anti-corporate demonstrations in New York Sept.

A fiery debate ensured at Tuesday's council meeting over a proposed draft policy to assist development of new affordable housing in the city.

David Rogers of Lashburn was excited to learn he had won the Previous Purchaser Draw of $10,000 through BUH Foundation's $100,000 Cash Lottery Oct. 5.

For a number of years now, the immigrant population in the Humboldt region has been expanding rapidly.

One is ending, while another school building project in Humboldt is just beginning.

In the last year, the Canadian Green Party has risen to its position of greatest prominence in the party's history.