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It was a roaring success. The third annual Kevin Weber Memorial Run was held on August 13. The rally is organized by Weber's sister, Katrina Stelzer and husband Dave, in memory of Weber, who died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 44.

Both supporters and non-supporters alike mourned the passing of federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton on Monday. Layton, 61, died Monday following a lengthy battle with cancer.

A three-year-old girl is dead following an attack by dogs on the Mosquito First Nation reserve. RCMP and ambulance responded to a 911 call just before 7 p.m. Sunday night, Aug. 21, about a girl being injured by dogs on the reserve.

Under a glass casing, protected from dust and encapsulated by time, are tiny vials filled with soil from the Holy Land. On another shelf of the display case there is a bronze statuette venerating Saint Francis of Assisi.

It was a historic moment. The last step in the 142 staircase to the top of the Humboldt Water Tower was put in on August 12.

The Battlefords was the latest stop Monday on a cross-country journey to promote education in the developing world.

Charges against the chief of Poundmaker First Nation and eight others accused of various Treaty Land Entitlement fraud crimes on the reserve were read for the first time in Cut Knife provincial court Tuesday.

A North Battleford-area man is dead following a fatal collision north of Lloydminster. Members of the Maidstone detachment on August 15 around 10:30am attended to the scene on highway 17, about ten miles north of Lloydminster.

People involved in the business of developing and selling property in the Eagle Hills area are saying times are good - good enough for local Saskatchewan residents to want to return home.

It was announced this week that after three decades serving the Battlefords and area in the trophy and sign business, Four-D Signs and Trophies Ltd. will be closed effective August 31, 2011.