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Healthy Families Conference comes to an end in La Ronge
The Healthy Families Conference focusing on lifestyles and languages wrapped up Friday at Senator Myles Venne School.Hosted by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB), it featured several special guests ...
Nov 08, 2019 Senator Myles Venne School was the location of the final day of the conference. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
North Stars travel to Melfort for showdown of league’s top two teams
There may be eleven points in the standings separating the Battlefords North Stars and Melfort Mustangs atop the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) standings, but Friday night should prove a two...
Nov 08, 2019 Stars’ forward, Rylan Nivon (#23) will look to stay hot against the Mustangs, after picking up three points and the shootout winner last month in the first matchup of the season-series, a 5-4 Battlefords’ victory. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Symposium learns about different methods of justice
Restorative Justice was on the agenda at the Prince Albert Grand Council's (PAGC) First Nation Policing and Indigenous Justice Symposium Wednesday in Saskatoon.Delegates at the convention got the oppo...
Nov 08, 2019 Volunteers sit in a circle during the demonstration of a healing circle Wednesday afternoon in Saskatoon. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Escape Rooms coming to Melfort
Escape room games have proven to be a hit in many different areas and they are getting a shot in Melfort.Melfort Escape Rooms is slated to open by mid-November in the front of the Melfort Tattoo Shop ...
Nov 08, 2019 Melfort Escape rooms will open at 109 Burrows Avenue West by mid-November. (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW staff)
Sask. donors raise $750,000 in children's hospital radiothon
Broadcasters from across Saskatchewan, including the full team from the family of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, helped raise a substantial sum of money for the new state-of-the-art children's faci...
Nov 07, 2019 On-air personalities of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group across the province lent their voices to the cause at the new Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in Saskatoon. (Teena Monteleone/paNOW Staff)
Community envisions myriad of future uses for old opera house
Battleford residents put on their thinking caps Wednesday as they came together to propose a gamut of ideas for the future of the old opera house space in Town Hall. The two-hour event at Fort Battlef...
Nov 07, 2019 Laura Plosz, of Group 2 Architecture and Design, speaks to guests at the open house Wednesday to gather input on future ideas for the Town of Battleford's former opera house. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Melfort Amateur Dramatics presents Gibson and Sons
Melfort Amateur Dramatics is down to the last week of rehearsal before this season's dinner theatre performance.Gibson and Sons will be hosted in the Kerry Vickar Centre CJVR performing arts theatre o...
Nov 07, 2019 The cast of Gibson and Sons have been rehearsing since late August for next week's dinner theatre in Melfort. (Facebook/Melfort Amateur Dramatics Inc.)
PAGC hears from Navajo lawyers in Saskatoon
Members from the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) are hearing about alternative forms of policing and justice this week.The PAGC's First Nations Policing and Indigenous Justice Symposium is set to w...
Nov 07, 2019 James Zion and Elsie Red Bird take questions after speaking at conference Wednesday in Saskatoon. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Two Saskatchewan bull riders have sights set on world championship in Las Vegas
Two Saskatchewan boys are amongst the field of 40 competitors at the 2019 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Unleash the Beast World Finals in Las Vegas from November 6 to 10.Maple Creek's Jared Parsonage...
Nov 07, 2019 Dakota Buttar after his third win of the season in North Battleford. (Facebook photo/Dakota Buttar)
PAGC talk policing and justice
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is bringing together lawyers, former judges and police officers to talk about First Nations policing and Indigenous justice initiatives.The three-day PAGC's Firs...
Nov 06, 2019 PAGC Grand Chief Brian Hardlotte, left, and Vice Chief Joseph Tsannie, right, present a gift to lawyer Donald Worme at the PAGC Policing and Justice Symposium Wednesday in Saskatoon (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)