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Sask. drug task force sets out priorities aimed at reducing overdoses
With drug overdose deaths reaching record highs, the Saskatchewan Drug Task Force continues to search for answers.The task force recently sought input from communities and their leaders, and ended up ...
Mar 03, 2022
Carla Beck officially begins run for NDP leadership
In and among the machinery of a manufacturing plant, Carla Beck made her first pitch to be the new leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.Beck said she has been hearing from so many people that they want chan...
Mar 03, 2022
Woman arrested, warrant issued in mail theft, assault investigation
Police have arrested Brenda Partridge and issued a warrant for another suspect, related to a serious assault in Meadow Lake back in late January.Loon Lake RCMP located and arrested the 36 year-old Mea...
Mar 03, 2022
Canada, six other countries pull back from Arctic Council in protest over Ukraine
Seven countries that ring the North Pole have pulled back from the international body that seeks to build co-operation on the development of the Arctic in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Canad...
Mar 03, 2022
Saskatchewan set to do its part to help Ukrainian people
The Saskatchewan government estimates that around 15 per cent of the province's population can trace its roots back to Ukraine.That number skyrocketed Thursday."Everybody is Ukrainian today in Saskatc...
Mar 03, 2022
As refugee numbers soar, many haunted by terror of war
PRZEMYSL, Poland (AP) - It took Tatyana Pelykh and her 11-year-old son four days of travel and a wait of nearly 48 hours at the border crossing to escape their native Ukraine for Romania. There they f...
Mar 03, 2022
First Nations continue to see COVID-19 cases fall, 27 per cent uptake in boosters
Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says COVID-19 cases continue to fall in First Nations communities. She says over the past week average daily case counts fell by around 10 per cent compared to...
Mar 03, 2022
1,102 new cases of COVID-19 in weekly epi report
The province have reported 1,102 new cases of COVID-19 in the new weekly integrated epidemiology report.This week's report contains data recorded from Sunday, Feb. 20 to Saturday Feb. 26 and the hospi...
Mar 03, 2022
Snowfall warning in the Battlefords, regional melt by Monday
More snowfall is on the way for some communities in northwest Saskatchewan and the broader region can expect tough road conditions by next week.Between five to 15 centimetres of snow are expected in t...
Mar 03, 2022
Canadians tentatively re-embrace travel as COVID-19 border measures loosen
Lisa Zeltzer watched COVID-19 case numbers rise through the winter and worried the March trip she'd booked to New York City - a vacation her theatre-loving son has been waiting to take for two years -...
Mar 03, 2022