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City administration squashed talk of ballooning costs for the CUPlex Monday, providing numbers showing the project was still well within budget. Parks and Recreation Director Keith Anderson provided a financial snapshot of the project Monday.

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health, the Prairie North Health Region and the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency issued a joint press release March 26 to announce that the provincial government is increasing funding for colorectal cancer screening province-wi

Crime statistics were on the rise in February in North Battleford, based on the latest statistics from Battlefords RCMP detachment.

North West Terminal Ltd. (NWT) has announced positive financial results for the company after its first three months of operations in 2011-12. For the period beginning Nov. 1, 2011 and ending Jan.

It's not a sexy budget, but is one that she believes will keep Saskatchewan strong. The Government of Saskatchewan released its 2012-13 budget, called "Keeping the Saskatchewan Advantage" on March 21, and Humboldt Sask.

It's spring, and that can only mean one thing, it's pothole season. The unsightly holes in the roads are back in North Battleford, and that has kept city crews busy trying to find and repair them.

A former Humboldt teacher has been sentenced. Jeff Anthony Schlosser was found guilty of sexual exploitation on March 6 and received an 18-month sentence during a sentencing hearing held on March 23 in Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon.

Good news for residents of the Battlefords came recently in a report on the progress of the provincial government's Saskatchewan Surgical Initiatives.

Since the 2011 census results were made public, the Journal has been taking a closer look at some of the towns and villages in the Humboldt area that have grown in population since the last census was taken in 2006.

Finance minister Ken Krawetz will be in the Battlefords next week to fill in local Chamber of Commerce members on the implications of last week's provincial budget.