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  REGINA -- Just days away from Christmas. Santa Claus took time from his busy schedule at the North Pole to come help collect donations for the Yorkton Salvation Army Food Bank. With COVID-19 protocols at the top of the priority list, the Gallagher’s Centre Agri Pavilion was turned in to a winter wonderland for photo sessions on Dec. 12, 13 and 20. "Doing this actually felt like regular Christmas, nothing's different. It feels normal, it feels happy, it's cheerful, it's what Christmas is about. Seeing all those little kids smiling," Jackie Herman, the photographer who came up with the...

Listen to Part 1 of this story. Some estimate the lithium-ion battery market will be worth more than $100 billion by 2027. Much of that growth can be attributed to the meteoric rise of electric vehicles, thanks in large part to Tesla. And that makes lithium – specifically lithium carbonate, the industrial chemical made from lithium to make batteries – very valuable. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the average U.S. price was $13,000 per metric ton last year. And there are tons of lithium – millions of tons – in Nevada. “We're developing one of the world's largest lithium ...

Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER Arrowtown’s historic Cooper’s Terrace might be in rack and ruins, but a former local’s determined to uncover its history. Tauranga-based project manager Jan Morrison has archaeological authority to work on the rare European goldmining settlement on the banks of the Arrow River, about one kilometre from Arrowtown. Cooper’s Terrace, comprising five or six stone huts, garden walls and an ostentatious stone ‘folly’, nicknamed the ‘German castle’, dates back to about 1900. Late last year, Morrison, who first uncover...

Listen to Part 1 of this story. Some estimate the lithium-ion battery market will be worth more than $100 billion by 2027. Much of that growth can be attributed to the meteoric rise of electric vehicles, thanks in large part to Tesla. And that makes lithium – specifically lithium carbonate, the industrial chemical made from lithium to make batteries – very valuable. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the average U.S. price was $13,000 per metric ton last year. And there are tons of lithium – millions of tons – in Nevada. “We’re developing one of the world’s largest lithium...