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First-ever Festival of Frights to occur in Humboldt

Humboldt Big Brothers Big Sisters will be hosting their first-ever Festival of Frights a total of five times throughout the rest of the month.The event is a way to celebrate people's love of Halloween...

Oct 12, 2022

Sask. Rivers raises Métis and Treaty 6 flags for first time

A special ceremony was recently held by the Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division (SRPSD) to promote reconciliation with Indigenous people.Around 100 people withstood the windy conditions on Wedn...

Oct 12, 2022

New book by late author explores power in story

"This is his last words to us in this world."That's what Joan Johnson said about the release of her late husband Harold Johnson's 12th book The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fiction...

Oct 11, 2022

P.A. and North Sask. see no job growth in September, other provincial regions experience loss in positions

Prince Albert and Northern Saskatchewan didn't see any job growth in September; but this wasn't entirely a bad thing.While the region continues to employ around the same amount of people it did in Aug...

Oct 11, 2022

Melfort Trade Alliance Chamber of Commerce hires new Executive Director

Cal Gratton is the new face of the Melfort Trade Alliance Chamber (MTACC).Gratton will serve as its new executive director, after the resignation of former executive director, Cam Lee, back in August....

Oct 11, 2022

'This could have gone on for years': Horizon School Division fires employee accused of stealing funds

The Horizon School Division is still looking to retrieve funds allegedly stolen by a former employee.Administrators for the the division, which oversees communities in the Humboldt, Wakaw, and St. Bri...

Oct 11, 2022

North Stars off to best start in over 16 years

The Battlefords North Stars are off to a season start for the ages. Having won 10 straight games to open the year, the streak is the organization's best start to a season in over 16 years - and possib...

Oct 10, 2022

Trudeau condemns deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv, Ukrainian cities

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Russia's latest attacks on Ukraine as the country unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities on Monday, including downtown Kyiv whe...

Oct 10, 2022

Family delighted with huge mushroom find

A young family east of the Battlefords had a big surprise over the past weekend. It wasn't the Great Pumpkin of Charlie Brown mythology, heralding the approach of Halloween.Instead it was a giant puff...

Oct 09, 2022

Lost cat makes an improbable return home, three years later

The cat came back, but it wasn't the very next day.In fact, it took more than three years for a lost cat to make its way back to one Saskatoon woman.When the feline was wandering around a couple's yar...

Oct 09, 2022