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Trail Rider Recreational Cooperative AGM
Our Annual General Meeting was cancelled in March due to COVID 19. We are required by our bylaws to hold a meeting once a year to discuss issues imperative to the members as well as elect board member...
Aug 19, 2020

Now playing at the mall parking lot: movies, drag shows
NEW YORK - Angel Dougherty went to the mall last month - not to shop, but to watch a drive-in drag show in the parking lot. "This year has been so anxiety filled and chaotic, I figured this experience...
Aug 19, 2020

City 2019 financial report reflects efficiencies, challenges ahead
The City of North Battleford managed to find significant efficiences and reduce costs in 2019, but it still has a long road ahead due to challenges including the economic impact of the pandemic.City M...
Aug 19, 2020

NESPCA planning barbecues, other fundraisers during COVID-19
The North East SPCA (NESPCA) continues to try and raise funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.A barbecue is set for Thursday, Aug. 20, but it'll be a little bit different. To follow all COVID-19 guidelin...
Aug 19, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Aug. 19
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. on Aug. 19, 2020: There are 123,154 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,252 confirmed (including 5,727 deaths, 54,083 res...
Aug 19, 2020

Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran surpassed 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the health ministry said - the highest death toll for any Middle East country so far in the pandemic. The annou...
Aug 19, 2020

Hundreds evacuated, thousands on notice as wildfire flares in southern B.C.
PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...
Aug 19, 2020

Possible COVID-19 exposure at Battleford business
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting individuals of a possibility of COVID-19 exposure through a local business in Battleford and is urging Saskatchewan residents to follow public healt...
Aug 19, 2020

Official: Kanye signature work in Wyoming too close to polls
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Rapper and music producer Kanye West's campaign ran into trouble Tuesday on his first day of trying to get on the presidential ballot in his home state of Wyoming. People gathering si...
Aug 19, 2020

Detailed plans in place for careful removal of Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. - When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to th...
Aug 19, 2020