Events

SSFA 55+ Games Curling wraps up with many winners

It's a wrap!Around 70 participants from across Saskatchewan descended on the Northland Power Curling Centre in North Battleford from March 4 to 6 to take part in the Saskatchewan Senior Fitness Associ...

Mar 07, 2024

Back-to-back wins for Trapper Competition contestants

Richard Charles and Clarissa Burns were the winners of the Lac La Ronge Winter Festival's King and Queen Trapper Competition. Both individuals also dominated the event in 2023 and are coming off recen...

Mar 04, 2024

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney dead at 84, says daughter

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is dead at the age of 84, his daughter Caroline says in a social media post.The country's 18th prime minister died peacefully and surrounded by family, sh...

Feb 29, 2024

Local 10-year-olds perform for TeleMiracle, raise nearly 10 times their original goal

Telemiracle 48 was this past weekend and raised over $6 million for the Kinsmen Foundation.Of that money raised, which was announced during the annual telethon, two local 10-year-olds played a big rol...

Feb 28, 2024

The benefits and problems of the annual Crime Severity Index

Is Statistics Canada's annual Crime Severity Index (CSI) report unfair to smaller communities? That's what's set to be discussed at a conference in Saskatoon organized by the City of North Battleford....

Feb 28, 2024

TeleMiracle 48 raises over $6 million

Another year of the TeleMiracle telethon has wrapped up and this year's total surpasses last year's total.Last year the total was $5,519,229, this year the total was $6,112,717.TeleMiracle has raised ...

Feb 25, 2024

Winter Festival wraps up with King and Queen, Junior Trapper events

The Prince Albert Winter Festival closed the book on their 60th installment on Sunday, wrapping up the annual festivities with the King & Queen Trapper and Junior Trapper events. The trapper event...

Feb 25, 2024

Could the Battlefords soon be in the Guinness Book of World Records?

In the coming days, the Battlefords will be reliving their childhood memories and in some cases, their dreams. Boxes upon boxes of macaroni and cheese will flood the communities in a grand attempt to ...

Feb 23, 2024

NITHA raising awareness of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections as numbers increase

The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) is once again trying to raise awareness of Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections (STBBI).The organization held its annual conference this w...

Feb 23, 2024

Ackerman, Sturmay rolling at Tournament of Hearts

Thirty-four years have passed since the last time an all-rookie team won the Canadian women's curling championship.So 22-year-old Skylar Ackerman and her unbeaten team of Saskatchewan first-timers mig...

Feb 19, 2024