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Red Pheasant Cree Nation urban reserve making progress
Red Pheasant Cree Nation continues to make progress with its new urban reserve development in North Battleford.Located on the east side of Territorial Drive near 15 Avenue, the project includes buildi...
Jan 06, 2020 Red Pheasant Cree Nation is making progress on its plans to develop an urban reserve on the outskirts of North Battleford. A Petro-Canada service station is expected to be completed in August. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Walmart shooting suspect has Prince Albert connection
The man accused of last month's fatal shooting in the Red Deer Walmart's parking lot has a Prince Albert connection. Chase Freed, 18, recently made his first court appearance and several sources close...
Jan 06, 2020 (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)
City of North Battleford to recycle Christmas trees
Now that the holiday season has come to a close there will be a lot of households in the Battlefords with Christmas trees that are starting to dry out.Once again, the City of North Battleford will be ...
Jan 06, 2020 City's Christmas tree recycling program to run from Jan. 3 to 31. (ID 133657997 © Thorsten Nilson | Dreamstime.com)
Thomas scores winner as Canada beats Russia for gold at world juniors
Canada is golden again at the world junior hockey championship.Akil Thomas scored with 3:58 left in the third period to cap a furious comeback and secure a 4-3 victory for the country's 18th title at ...
Jan 05, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
North Stars repeat the feat: top Klippers 5-2 for second straight night
Call it dj vu or Groundhog Day, but it was a familiar story in the back-half of the home-and-home series between the Battlefords North Stars and Kindersley Klippers Saturday night at the Civic Centre....
Jan 04, 2020 All smiles: Stars' goalie, Adam Dmyterko celebrates with Dylan Esau (#28), and the rest of his fellow teammates, following Saturday's 5-2 victory over the rival Klippers at the Civic Centre. With the victory, the Stars have now won 5 straight games. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Canadian-led NATO training mission in Iraq suspended amid security concerns
Canada's defence minister says a Canadian-led NATO training mission in Iraq has been temporarily suspended in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.Harjit Sajjan confirmed a stat...
Jan 04, 2020
Canada downs Finland in world junior semis to set up gold-medal game with Russia
Canada was looking for payback.The national team got it, and then some, in a dominant wire-to-wire performance Saturday at the world junior hockey championship.The Canadians scored three times before ...
Jan 04, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
Police looking for suspect in armed robbery
At 1:00 a.m. on Saturday morning Battlefords RCMP received a complaint of an armed robbery at a business on the 1700 block of 100th St. A lone man entered the business brandishing a weapon, threatened...
Jan 04, 2020 Police are asking for help identifying this man. (submitted/RCMP)
Woman, 24, missing from North Battleford
UPDATE: Lisa Emily Moyah has been located safe.Battleford's RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating Lisa Emily Moyah of North Battleford. Moyah, 24, was last seen leaving the Beaver Hotel in...
Jan 04, 2020 (Submitted/RCMP)
Stars and Klippers ready for round two of weekend showdown
The Battlefords North Stars will return to action Saturday for part two of their weekend home-and-home series with the division rival, Kindersley Klippers, as the scene shifts to the Battlefords. Retu...
Jan 04, 2020 Captain, Matthew Fletcher and his North Stars’ teammates will look to stay hot Saturday, in search of a fifth straight win, as the team will make their first appearance of the new calendar year in front of the home crowd. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)