This victory is not just for the woman who won over a hundred grand; it also signifies a victory for the community. With the new system at the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH), there is now an opportunity to save more lives."This year's lottery proceeds have enabled the purchase of the 3D Ngenuity system, directly...

Shelley Boutin-Gervais is seeking a fourth term on Battleford council. "Things are progressing in a very good manner actually, we have a very good council that works well together," she said. "It's a bit different this year with more people running for election but I'm just hoping that the residents of t...

Battlefords RCMP are asking for the public's help in finding a 12-year-old girl who was last seen on Halloween night. Tyra Fineday was last seen at around 7:15 p.m. near 17th avenue and 100th Street in North Battleford. She is roughly 5'6" tall and 110 lbs with brown eyes and medium-length brown hair. She also has...

Three people in North Battleford are fighting for the honour of being named mayor on Nov. 13. Although they come from different backgrounds, they all share a vision for prosperity benefiting the city and its surrounding regions.During the candidates' forums on Wednesday night, the mayoral candidates shed light on diffe...

A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a Cumberland House woman in 2022 will spend another two-and-a-half years in prison. Alvin Thomas was sentenced in Melfort Court of King's Bench on Friday. Justice John Morral sentenced Thomas to six years in prison in the death of 24-year-old Marisha Hoksbergen i...

Exactly one week after he was shot and essentially left for dead, the victim of a car jacking north of Prince Albert has left the hospital and is resting back home with his family. Orlan Peterson's recovery - both physically and mentally - is expected to be long but, according to family, the 66-year-old remains positiv...

It's become Saskatchewan's largest annual maternal and pediatric fundraiser. On Nov. 5th and 6th, Pattison Media radio stations from Prince Albert, Melfort, Battlefords and Meadow Lake will join more than 25 other radio stations across the province for the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Radiothon. The focus this year...

Harvest in Saskatchewan is officially done with the provincial government saying 100 per cent of crops are in the bin as of Oct. 21.The final provincial crop report said most crops got off to a good start this year thanks to the moisture brought on by the heavy rainfall from June and May. Their growth was accelerated b...

The Montreal Lake Cree Nation hopes to breathe new life into their traditional language by making nîhithaw accessible anywhere and anytime through an app."We have a lot of language understanders, but we're losing the number of speakers needed to keep the language alive," said Charlotte Ross, project coo...

After hours of hand counting, the results are in for the The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) election.Chief Bobby Cameron will return for a fourth term.He came out on top with 765 votes over Alyson Bear, FSIN's former Third Vice Chief, who only received 258 votes.On the campaign trail, Cameron said if...

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between protesters and Indian consular officials. The Khalsa Diwan Society, which runs the Ross Street Gurdwara, says in court docu...

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman, bled to death in the tub in 2011. A jury found Bradley Barton not guilty in 20...

MONTREAL - A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court's refusal to translate its historic decisions into French. Droits collectifs Québec says it filed an application today in Federal Court after failing to get the office of the regis...

MONTREAL - A museum dedicated to revered Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve is racing to find its stolen bronze statue of the Quebec speedster before it gets melted down for cash. Alain Bellehumeur, general manager of the Gilles Villeneuve Museum, says the 5 foot 3 inches tall statue was apparently sawed off at the a...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a change to the law that limited the right of an accused person to a preliminary inquiry does not apply to some ongoing cases. The top court's ruling today helps clarify who is eligible for a preliminary inquiry - a judicial hearing to see if there is enough evidence for a tria...

VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice. The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it has issued a for...

CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...

CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead. The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used exc...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania. The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and the his family. Moore, 59, was p...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of "Russian influence actors," U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. The video in question shows someone claiming to be a Haitian immigrant talking about how he's intending to...