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Battlefords RCMP seeking help in locating missing teen
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Fed up with road
'Falls on deaf ears': Cumberland House council frustrated with state of Highway 123
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NDP Leader Beck hopes for improvements to healthcare, education
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Starbucks is coming to North Battleford
May 17, 2024
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Fed up with road
'Falls on deaf ears': Cumberland House council frustrated with state of Highway 123
The residents and village council of Cumberland House are fed up that the only road coming into the community is virtually impassable. Both Mayor Ferlin McKay and Deputy Mayor Veronica Favel say Highway 123 into Cumberland House is more of a back road than a highway, with soft gravel and deep mud making driving next to...
10h ago
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NO SHOCK AT THE PUMP
Analysts say no change coming to gas prices this long weekend
The Victoria Day long weekend is finally here, and if you're travelling and need to fuel up on the road, there's some good news for you. While the price per litre of gas can jump up before a long weekend, that won't be the case for the next few days, according to gas price analyst Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy. He said t...
14h ago
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Tentative deal reached
STF, province reach tentative deal
After more than a year of negotations, the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teacher's Federation have reached a tentative deal.Friday's announcement came after three days of renewed talks that started Wednesday. "This has not been an easy process for anyone involved, but we have arrived at a mutually acc...
May 17, 2024
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May Long Activities
Sask Parks ready for soggy May-long weekend
The Northern Lights, Roughriders, open fields and blue skies; Saskatchewan is famous for many things - including erratic weather - especially on May long weekends. While heavy winds and rain in the forecast are proving to be the case again this year, many camping enthusiasts are still gearing up to make the most of it....
May 17, 2024
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Missing person
Battlefords RCMP seeking help in locating missing teen
Battlefords RCMP are asking the public for help in locating a missing 13-year-old boy. Bentley Mccarthy was last seen at around 8:30 Saturday morning at a residence in North Battleford. He is described as 5'11" and 155 lbs with brown eyes and red hair in a mullet style haircut. He was last seen wearing a black t-s...
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Cross-province tour
NDP Leader Beck hopes for improvements to healthcare, education
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck is raising her concerns about improvements needed to healthcare and education in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake area. She plans to travel across the province this summer to hear residents' issues as she hits the campaign trail. "We've been really focused on outreach and connecti...
12h ago
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Red Heels
Men of the Battlefords take a stroll in red heels for Walk A Mile In Her Shoes; raise over $18K for BASAC
As friends and family cheered and laughed, dozens of men in bright red pumps took to the streets of North Battleford and strutted, stumbled and high-stepped their way down the sidewalk. They were spreading a message: They support the women of the Battlefords and the Battleford and Area Sexual Assault Centre (BASAC). RC...
May 17, 2024
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Starbucks Coming
Starbucks is coming to North Battleford
It's official, the venti Caramel Macchiato is coming to the Battlefords. In a partnership between Red Pheasant Cree Nation and the City of North Battleford, Eagles Landing will be the location of the area's first Starbucks. "We've been working on this for I don't know... six, seven months," said Chief Cody Be...
May 17, 2024
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Battlefords
Missing person
Battlefords RCMP seeking help in locating missing teen
Battlefords RCMP are asking the public for help in locating a missing 13-year-old boy. Bentley Mccarthy was last seen at around 8:30 Saturday morning at a residence in North Battleford. He is described as 5'11" and 155 lbs with brown eyes and red hair in a mullet style haircut. He was last seen wearing a black t-s...
4h ago
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Cross-province tour
NDP Leader Beck hopes for improvements to healthcare, education
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck is raising her concerns about improvements needed to healthcare and education in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake area. She plans to travel across the province this summer to hear residents' issues as she hits the campaign trail. "We've been really focused on outreach and connecti...
12h ago
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Red Heels
Men of the Battlefords take a stroll in red heels for Walk A Mile In Her Shoes; raise over $18K for BASAC
As friends and family cheered and laughed, dozens of men in bright red pumps took to the streets of North Battleford and strutted, stumbled and high-stepped their way down the sidewalk. They were spreading a message: They support the women of the Battlefords and the Battleford and Area Sexual Assault Centre (BASAC). RC...
May 17, 2024
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Starbucks Coming
Starbucks is coming to North Battleford
It's official, the venti Caramel Macchiato is coming to the Battlefords. In a partnership between Red Pheasant Cree Nation and the City of North Battleford, Eagles Landing will be the location of the area's first Starbucks. "We've been working on this for I don't know... six, seven months," said Chief Cody Be...
May 17, 2024
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Veteran difference-maker
Jackson Allan ready to lead North Stars' next wave
Boasting quick hands, quick feet, and a motor that never quits, there are few players who can jet up-and-down ice, and inspire their teammates to give it their all at both ends of the rink, like North Stars' forward Jackson Allan.A third-round selection by the Battlefords back in the 2019 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey Lea...
May 17, 2024
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RCMP investigation
Police ask for public's help to find suspect in alleged armed robbery
Police are asking for the public's help after an armed robbery in the local area. On May 10 at about 2:20 p.m., Battlefords RCMP received a report of a shot being fired at a home in North Battleford. After responding to the incident, police located an injured man suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound. The ...
May 17, 2024
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Meadow Lake
Randy Weekes exit from Legislature
Weekes says Harrison brought gun into Leg, details harassment on final day
In his last minutes as Speaker in the Saskatchewan Legislature, Biggar-Sask. Valley MLA Randy Weekes decided to talk about harassment and bullying from the government, primarily from Meadow Lake MLA Jeremy Harrison who is also House Leader. That was just hours after he cut up his Sask. Party membership card and posted ...
May 16, 2024
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New Homes
MN-S celebrates site of future affordable homes in Meadow Lake
Standing at a wooden podium featuring an ornately carved head of a bison peering out over top the unmistakable blue and white of the Metis flag, Loretta King, minister of Housing and Infrastructure with Metis Nation- Saskatchewan spoke to the future of a plot of land in Meadow Lake. "It's exciting for us to be her...
May 16, 2024
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Best Fests
Local summer music jams nominated for SCMAs
Marc Butler is "pretty excited." His Dog Patch Music Festival has been nominated in the Best Music Festival Category in the 2024 Saskatchewan Country Music Association (SCMAs). He said the journey to this moment goes back decades. "I did it based on something my parents did in the early '80s," he sa...
May 15, 2024
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Agriculture
Saskatchewan farm finds ways to survive suring sustained dry conditions
If drought relief doesn't fall from above, grow it from below. That's how one Saskatchewan farm has survived and thrived during the past five years. T...
May 17, 2024
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Agriculture Roundup for Friday May 17, 2024
Novel Technologies Streams under the Food Waste Reduction Challenge has selected two businesses to receive financial support. Clean Works Inc. and Gen...
May 17, 2024
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Former Sask. Stockyards Company fined $250K for fatal workplace incident
Spiritwood Stockyards has been fined a total of $325,000 for two workplace related incidents, including one that resulted in a man's death.The case wa...
May 16, 2024
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