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Battlefords housing market cools with the weather
The real estate market in the Battlefords has cooled off with the weather this winter season.The Battlefords saw 28 properties sell in the month of November. The average selling price for a property w...
Dec 06, 2019 Battlefords housing market cools in November (File photo/battlefordsNOW staff)
North Stars return home for rivalry bash with Klippers
The Battlefords North Stars return to action Friday looking to bounce back from their first back-to-back losses of the season. Returning home to the Civic Centre, the Stars will welcome the Kindersley...
Dec 06, 2019 Rivalry night: While it may be nearly three months since the teams last met to open the season, it shouldn’t take long for the North Stars and Klippers to renew acquaintances when the teams meet Friday at the Civic Centre for their first of back-to-back showdowns this weekend. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Town lawmakers mull over one per cent tax increase
Battleford lawmakers had an overall favourable response to a draft of the proposed 2020 budget presented at a special council meeting Thursday night.The town proposed a one per cent municipal tax incr...
Dec 06, 2019 Town Finance Director David Gillan presents the proposed budget at Thursday’s meeting. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Sombre 30th anniversary for 'Montreal Massacre'
A mass shooting no one in Canada will forget.Thirty years ago today, a lone gunman entered cole Polytechnique, and shot and killed 14 women in what has been called the 'Montreal Massacre'.Fourteen oth...
Dec 06, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
First big payout in new Sask. lottery
The opening payout in the new Touchdown for Kids Millionaire Lottery has gone to a woman in Swift Current. Christine Newton won $500,000.The lottery is a partnership between the Saskatchewan Roughride...
Dec 05, 2019 Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation along with the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation are partners in the new lottery. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Town of Battleford proposing one per cent municipal tax increase
The Town of Battleford is proposing a one per cent municipal tax increase in its first draft of its proposed 2020 budget that will be presented at its meeting tonight. No increase is proposed for util...
Dec 05, 2019 The Town of Battleford is presenting its proposed budget for 2020 at a special meeting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 5. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
First all-female surgical team in Melfort hospital history delivers baby girl
History was made in the Melfort hospital operating room last month.The first all-female surgical team to operate at the hospital delivered a healthy baby girl on Nov. 10. Dr. Erin Beresh was the surge...
Dec 05, 2019 The first all-female surgical team at the Melfort hospital. (Facebook/Saskatchewan Health Authority)
AAA Stars look to stay hot in return to action Thursday
The Battlefords AAA Stars return to action Thursday night for their first game action since a red letter weekend against the Notre Dame Argos. The team is coming off a weekend showing that saw the Sta...
Dec 05, 2019 There has been plenty of optimism around the Battlefords AAA Stars of late, as the team has outscored their opposition 9-0 over their last two games. The team will look to stay hot in their return to action Thursday in search of a third straight win. (submitted photo/Brett Parker/Byron Hildebrand photography)
North Stars’ athletic therapist, Kutnikoff joins WHL's Broncos
It was just another day at the office for North Stars' athletic therapist and equipment manager, Andrew Kutnikoff when he received the offer to join the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey Lea...
Dec 05, 2019 Stars’ athletic therapist, Andrew Kutnikoff, pictured here, will be moving on up to the Major Junior ranks with Swift Current as of Thursday the North Stars and Broncos announced Wednesday afternoon. (submitted photo/Byron Hildebrand)
North Stars drop second straight, fall 3-2 to Bruins in Estevan
For the second straight night, the Battlefords North Stars found themselves on the wrong end of a 3-2 final,, as the team fell just short of a comeback effort Wednesday, against the Estevan Bruins at ...
Dec 04, 2019 Bruins’ goalie, Keenan Rancier stopped 29 of 31 Battlefords’ shots on the night, to help lead his team to victory Wednesday night in Estevan. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)