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Great golfing, great food, great company and a great cause - that is how Claudette McGuire, Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation executive director, describes the annual Wayne Pruden Memorial Golf Tournament.

Prairie North Health Region is receiving $1.45 million for repairs to health care facilities and equipment upgrades. The funding is part of the $133.

Confusion reigned at city council, as councillors struggled to figure out what to do about an application for a medical clinic in the north end of the city.

Not everyone can finish first in a race - or even second or third. Someone has to bring up the rear, and that was the fate of Green Party candidate Norbert Kratchmer in Battlefords-Lloydminster Monday.

North Battleford council has put on ice a proposal by a local entrepreneur to operate a mobile ice cream stand on modified all-terrain vehicles.

Fire crews were on the scene at WPD Ambulance to douse a fire that broke out in an ambulance in their garage bay at 1072 - 103rd St. Four firefighters and the fire chief attended the scene for a half hour.

Shellbrook RCMP are investigating a suspicious death that occurred over the weekend on the Ahtahakakoop First Nation. At around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 1, Shellbrook RCMP received a call about a disturbance at a residenceon the First Nation.

A fire set by a minor under 12 years old has burned down the community hall at Moosomin First Nation. The fire happened Friday with Battlefords Rural RCMP responding around 3:30 p.m. April 29.

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The investigation continues into a May 2 incident in which a man was stabbed in the face. The incident happened on the 1400 block of 101st Street around 10:30 p.m.