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School band's trip to NYC still on, regardless of sanctions

North Battleford Comprehensive High School (NBCHS) Band's planned trip to New York City is still moving ahead, despite teachers' sanctions underway.Saskatchewan teachers withdrew their time for extrac...

Mar 13, 2024

Johnny and Kristy Charles named Mr. and Mrs. Winter Festival

Johnny and Kristy Charles have been named this year's Mr. and Mrs. Winter Festival. It is the first time the Lac La Ronge Winter Festival has named a couple to represent the 10-day annual event. Jonas...

Mar 08, 2024

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

La Ronge couple welcomes quadruplets on leap day

It was a leap day like no other for Gilbert Merasty and Savannah Ratt of La Ronge who welcomed quadruplets into the world on Feb. 29. Born at Saskatoon's Jim Pattison Children's Hospital, Aleah, Beaut...

Mar 05, 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

Prince Albert physician to represent Canada at World Medical Soccer championships

A Prince Albert area physician is trading in his stethoscope for a pair of cleats. Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka, medical health officer for the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA), is one of three Sa...

Feb 29, 2024

LLRIB executive director wins national leadership award

Gladys Christiansen, the executive director of Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB), is the 2024 recipient of the AFOA Canada Indigenous Leadership Award.The award, which is sponsored by TD Bank, recogniz...

Feb 28, 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

Sask. teen wins lacrosse tournament in Australia with Canadian team

A 16-year-old teen from Wahpeton Dakota Nation is back home after winning the 2024 International Indoor Junior Lacrosse (IIJL) Commonwealth Cup in Australia.Brody Mcleod was part of the Canadian team,...

Feb 27, 2024