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Sask. athletes prepare to head across the country for 2025 Canada Summer Games

Athletes from across North Central Saskatchewan are honing their skills over the next couple of weeks as they gear up to head to the 2025 Canada Summer Games next month. This year's installment is in ...

Jul 29, 2025

Justin Miller takes helm of Fred Light Museum after Leslie's decades-long tenure

When Justin Miller first joined the Fred Light Museum board in 2016, he didn't expect he would one day be running the place.At the time, Miller was working at Home Hardware in North Battleford and had...

Jul 29, 2025

'We're queer, we're here and we're not going away': Battlefords Pride celebrates 10th annual parade

When Bobbi Sue Thompson talks about Pride, she thinks of the young people who risk losing everything when they come out. "Because there's a lot of kids that if they come out, they're homeless. I've se...

Jul 28, 2025

Final round underway at Senior Golf Championships

Over 130 golfers will play their third and final round of the 2025 Saskatchewan Senior Golf Championships on Thursday at the Chinook Golf Course in Swift Current.Of the three titles set to be claimed ...

Jul 24, 2025

'Let's keep the Battlefords growing': Linda Machiak among first in Canada to receive Diamond-level chamber leadership award

After 25 years of serving the Battlefords business community, Linda Machniak is getting national recognition for her work and making history while she's at it. The longtime chief operating officer of ...

Jul 24, 2025

Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71, Florida police and WWE said Thursday.In Clearwater, Flori...

Jul 24, 2025

Cando's Hirschfeld family raising money in honour of deceased Steven

On Saturday, May 18, 2024, Steven Hirschfeld passed away after his second battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer, at only 27 years old. Originally from a farm in the Cando...

Jul 23, 2025

CNIB in need of volunteers to foster future service dogs across Canada

It's a rewarding experience filled with unconditional love and the opportunity to change the life of someone who is blind. Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Guide Dogs is urgently looki...

Jul 23, 2025

LLRIB member invited to partake in historic military role in London

Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) member Cpl. Daniel Choquette is currently in London after having been invited to serve as a King's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace. "I am super honoured to have this e...

Jul 21, 2025

Lloydminster brain cancer survivor rides over 10,000 km in 10 years to fight childhood cancer

Every August for the past decade, Jarrod Russell gets on his bike and rides-not for a medal, not for glory, but for kids he's never met, fighting a disease he knows too well.The 49-year-old from Lloyd...

Jul 19, 2025