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St. Walburg local, Thiele commits to Lakeland College

St. Walburg's Niomi Thiele will don Lakeland Rustlers' green next fall for the next chapter of her basketball journey.The Grade 12 senior at St. Walburg School recently committed to the Rustlers' prog...

Dec 01, 2022

Kotai shines bright between pipes for North Stars

Nearing the midway mark of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season, few storylines may be as compelling as that of the man between the pipes with the Battlefords North Stars, wearing #30. North S...

Nov 30, 2022

Book on Delmas residential school fire to be available next month

A new book, called Ashes and Embers: Stories of the Delmas Indian Residential School will be available in the Battlefords area in a couple of weeks. Written by Poundmaker Cree Nation author and educat...

Nov 29, 2022

Meota Combines primed to build on last year's championship

Coming off an undefeated campaign last year, capped off by a league championship on home ice, the Meota Combines are closing in on their long-awaited season opener, this weekend.Opening their schedule...

Nov 29, 2022

Crusaders senior boys win provincial silver

The John Paul II Collegiate senior boys volleyball team are 4A provincial silver medalists.Hitting the ground running at the year-end tournament in Meadow Lake, the Crusaders' boys went undefeated thr...

Nov 28, 2022

'It still hurts:' Families hope for new homes after mass stabbing in Saskatchewan

JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - Brian (Buggy) Burns says it's the small things he misses the most, like sitting down and having coffee with his wife nearly every morning for more than three decades.Since hi...

Nov 26, 2022

AAA Stars, Sharks in action this weekend

It's a busy weekend ahead for the Battlefords U18 AAA hockey teams. The AAA Stars and AAA Sharks are both in action this weekend. The Stars will play a pair of games Saturday and Sunday at Notre Dame,...

Nov 25, 2022

RCMP looking for help to locate the owner of collectible coins and a pocket watch

Loon Lake RCMP is looking for help. They're trying to track down the owner of an antique pocket watch and a coin collection.The items were seized as a result of an investigation from March 2020. That ...

Nov 25, 2022

Beaver Blues look to stay hot against Perdue

The Battlefords Beaver Blues have hit the ground running to start the senior hockey season. Coming off a 6-1 win in their opener last weekend against Redberry, the team will now shoot to make it two s...

Nov 25, 2022

North Stars top CJHL rankings for fifth straight week

For the fifth straight week and sixth in the last seven, the Battlefords North Stars have been named the top team in Canada in the latest Canadian Junior Hockey League Top-20 Weekly Rankings.The Stars...

Nov 24, 2022