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Lloydminster Health Assessment: Story 2 – Who’s being forgotten?

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A $262,260 health assessment reveals the full scope of who depends on Lloydminster’s hospital, and how little two governments have done to keep up. Before you can understand what is broken, you need to understand how many people are counting on one hospital to not be broken. The answer is more than most people know. According to the Lloydminster Health Service Needs Assessment, the service area studied in the report “extends 150 kilometers from Lloydminster, encompassing numerous urban, rural, and Indigenous communities.” According to the 2021 Census, that 150-kilometre radius held approximately 217,000 residents. Lloydminster Hospital serves them all. The

Three charged after dog shot dead in North Battleford

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A man walking his dog was shot at by occupants of a passing truck in North Battleford on June 26, and the dog was killed. Three people are now facing charges, including weapons-related offences. Battlefords RCMP received the call at approximately 8 p.m. on 8th Avenue North. Officers determined a truck with multiple occupants approached the man, who was on foot with his dog. The occupants uttered threats and discharged a firearm. The dog was struck and declared dead at the scene. The man was not physically injured. Police located the suspect truck a short time later, parked outside a

RCMP: One killed in North Battleford rollover

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RCMP state A 67-year-old North Battleford man is dead following a single-vehicle rollover on the Highway 16 Bypass in North Battleford. Battlefords detachment received a report of the crash at approximately 5:15 a.m. on June 28. The man was the sole occupant of the vehicle. EMS declared him deceased at the scene. His family has been notified. The Highway 16 Bypass was closed for a period of time following the collision before reopening. Battlefords officers continue to investigate with the assistance of a collision reconstructionist. Read more: RCMP investigating drive-by shooting in North Battleford

Tickets issued after Lloydminster collision with cab

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RCMP and Lloydminster Fire Rescue responded to a two-vehicle collision at the corner of 62 Ave. and 36 St. on the evening of June 24. The call came in at around 7:30 p.m. The incident involved a 16-year-old female driver and a King’s Cab vehicle. No injuries were reported. The intersection was slowed for approximately 45 minutes while emergency crews worked the scene. The teenage driver was issued two traffic tickets – one for driving without proper supervision, and a second for making an unsafe left turn. Read more: Lloydminster 18-year-old charged after collision

Lloydminster Health Assessment: Story 1 – The suppression

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The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health denied a journalist’s request for 261 pages of Lloydminster’s health assessment on the same day the government issued a public summary of its findings. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health withheld all 261 pages of Lloydminster’s health needs assessment from public access on June 25, citing four exemptions under provincial freedom of information law. The government issued a press release summarizing the same document the same day. BorderPulse filed an access to information request on May 29, 2026, seeking the complete, unredacted Lloydminster Health Service Needs Assessment as originally submitted by Cornerstone Planning Group. The request

Gallery- One injured in mid-morning 44 st. collision

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Lloydminster Fire and Rescue, EMS and RCMP responded shortly after 10:30 a.m. June 28 to a collision involving a motorcycle. Witnesses parked across the street from 44 St. and 55 Ave. said a group of riders were headed down the street when one appeared to hit something and lay their bike down. Two people were attended to by EMS crews, one was then taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A orange road cone now sits inside a pothole, which may have been the cause of the incident. One of the riders drove the bike away from the scene. Read more:

Guest Column – Canada Day

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The following is a guest column by Darrell Dunn, Publisher, The Weekly Bean. This is 159th year since London acquiesced to allow us to be our own country. That 159 yearscan be looked at in a wide variety of ways. The story surrounding the creation and evolution ofthis country we call home is as diverse as the roughly 40 million people who live here. Some ofthose stories are testaments of grit and success and some are tales of challenge anddisappointment. Some are stories of unfairness and oppression. Some are stories of heroism andsacrifice. The stories are as varied as this land

Behind the Bison – Traffic Collisions

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RCMP Staff Sgt. Jerry Nutbrown brings you behind the scenes with a serious of columns taking you behind police work and how it’s done in our community. If you have a question you think needs to be answered in Behind the Bison, send it to admin@borderpulse.ca and we will be sure to share it with him. In the policing world, one or more vehicles trying to occupy the same space as another object is called acollision. Although it would meet the definition of an accident, which is defined as an unexpected andundesirable event especially one resulting in damage or harm, I would

Gallery- Explosions heard during RCMP arrest in Lloydminster

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Over a dozen RCMP vehicles descended on a home in the 1600 block of 52B Ave. close Saturday evening. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. Officers from the Emergency Response Team, K9, plain clothes and uniformed divisions descended on the residence. Numerous attempts to have the suspect come out of the home were made before a couple of tactical devices were used. Shortly after, one male suspect was taken into custody. Lloydminster RCMP S/Sgt. Bruce Maclean provided a brief update on the scene. “We have arrested one individual in relation to an ongoing investigation,” said MacLean. He also confirmed it was not

Improvements being made at Mount Joy

Mount Joy Snow Resort is heading into the coming season with some improvements in place, including a major mechanical upgrade and new earthworks aimed at keeping the parking lot drier. President of the Board for Mount Joy, Dean Peters, said the goal is always to make the experience better for the public who attends. The first project has replaced the tow rope cable on its T-bar lift, a project that had not been done since 1978. Peters said the work cost between $50,000 and $60,000. “It was a project that was a few years in the making and was necessary,”