Pride Week plans are coming together as the date for the event nears.The festivities will run Monday, Aug. 19 to Sunday, Aug. 25.The LGBTQ Battlefords and Area Pride organizers expect a fun and inform...
Aug 11, 2019 The upcoming Battlefords Pride Week event will take place Aug. 19 to 25. The Pride parade is set for Aug. 24. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff) 
Hundreds of people lined the streets Friday night, as the town of Battleford hosted their annual parade to bring in the weekend. From the trot of horses' hooves, to the sound of children's laughter as...
Aug 10, 2019 The Thunderchild family, pictured here enjoying the sights and sounds of the town parade Friday night in Battleford. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Residents may have noticed some RCMP activity on the North Saskatchewan River Friday.Prince Albert RCMP members along with some from the north put their boats in the river for some training exercises....
Aug 10, 2019 RCMP members were on the North Saskatchewan River at P.A. training Friday (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Those who love the golden oldies tunes will be in for a treat with an upcoming dinner-concert fundraiser.Organizers are planning an event called Rock And Rattle at the Alex Dillabough Centre in Battle...
Aug 09, 2019 Colin Baillargeon shown holding his son Jackson, right, as grandad Charles Baillargeon, left, looks on during their performance of Cat's in the Cradle the Aug. 4 show. A concert-dinner fundraiser is planned for Sept. 28. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Two boys from the Battlefords area will be swinging for the fences later this month.That's as they are headed to the Western Canadian 15U Baseball Championships in Lloydminster from August 15 to 18.Le...
Aug 09, 2019 Cory and Levi with their provincial medals (supplied photo/Michelle Scherman)
There may have been a little bit of rain sprinkling through the morning Friday, but that didn't put a damper on some old-fashioned family fun in the community. The Fred Light Museum hosted its first-e...
Aug 09, 2019 A young boy hammers in a nail at the Fred Light Museum’s inaugural Family Fun Day (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
It was Miracle Treat Day at Dairy Queen's across Canada on Thursday, Aug. 9, and one local location hit a milestone.The Nipawin Dairy Queen hit $100,000 fundraised over 15 years of fundraising. After ...
Aug 09, 2019 (submitted photo/Dan Ukrainetz)
Prince Albert is near the bottom of the list in Maclean's Magazine's annual look at Canada's Best Communities. The city is ranked at 371 out of 415.Responding to the report, some officials in the city...
Aug 09, 2019 Maclean's uses a variety of factors to calculate which communities are the best to live in throughout the country. (Submitted/Maclean's)
The parking lot at the Northern Lights Casino will play host to hundreds of cars Saturday.The 21st Annual Northern Lights Casino Car Show will be going from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sheldon Novak, who is orga...
Aug 09, 2019 Organizers are gearing up for a big turnout this weekend (File Photo/paNOW Staff)
Miracle Treat Day was held at Dairy Queen locations across the country yesterday and the Meadow Lake restaurant joined the event for the first time.Owner and manager Siddharth Patel estimated they sol...
Aug 09, 2019 Daniel Carlson flipping over a Blizzard on Miracle Treat Day. Net proceeds from every Blizzard sold went towards the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW staff)