North Battleford News

Country songstress Jo Dee Messina has postponed several late May Canadian shows, explaining that her mother's heart complications are the cause.

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As well, research on cattle, previously done in Lethbridge, Alberta, will be consolidated with the existing research office in Swift Current.

Flooding is on the decline around the province, but some stretches of highway remain under water, the highways ministry says.

Dani Goddard helps families that show up in crisis at the Pasqua Hospital's emergency department because their loved ones have dementia and they don't know where to go for help.

Geena Favel, front from left, Judy Atcheynum, Rhonda Fisher, Jesse Fox, back left, and Staci Benson visit a memorial Monday erected near the site where a car driven by Robert Badger on July 19, 2012, swerved off Highway 40 and rolled down an embankment.

While the desire for a curfew bylaw is understandable, but such legislation would be hard to enforce, according to Mayor Jim Scarrow.

Winter was reluctant to relinquish its death grip on Saskatchewan this year, leaving ranchers with dwindling feed supplies and delayed pasture growth.

Singer k.d. lang is so proud of the Alberta Ballet's artistic take on her prairie upbringing, she wants to see it performed outside the province.

Many people in southern Saskatchewan are breathing a collective sigh of relief, as it appears that the forecasted rising waters have not caused the flooding of roadways and not disrupted everyday life as did two years ago.

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The STC route connecting Swift Current and Eastend, and Eastend and Mossbank, is on the chopping block as a result of low ridership.

It might be early to breathe a sigh of relief, but it looks like truckers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have escaped the spring melt with only a handful of detours from flooding.

Forty-eight Saskatchewan communities have asked the province for disaster assistance because of flooding, while 14 communities were under states of emergency Wednesday.

The James Smith First Nation, the Cowessess First Nation and the RM of Fish Creek bring the total number of communities that have declared emergencies to 13.

Swift Current will be a swinging place on Friday when a five-member jazz group stops at the Lyric Theatre as part of the second annual SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Provincial Tour.

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Police seized the vehicle of a 19-year-old man after issuing him a $508 ticket for excessive speeding on a residential Saskatoon street.

The town of Radisson and the village of Borden, which are both located just northwest of Saskatoon, declared emergencies Monday afternoon.

The Battle River flows into the North Saskatchewan River just outside of North Battleford, and gets its water from Alberta.