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Father of 2020 Saskatchewan bear attack victim ‘heartbroken’ over latest fatal encounter
The father of a woman who died in a bear attack in 2020 says his heart goes out to the family and friends of the 27-year-old man who died in a bear encounter northeast of Points North Landing last Fri...
May 13, 2026 Hubert Esquirol, who lost his daughter Stephanie Blais in a bear attack in 2020, says he is “heartbroken” after hearing about the attack on Friday, which claimed the life of a 27-year-old man.
Province expands virtual addictions treatment to more Saskatchewan communities
Saskatchewan is widening access to virtual addictions care, adding a dozen communities to a program aimed at helping people get treatment closer to home.The Virtual Access to Addiction Medicine progra...
May 13, 2026 The VAAM program provides Saskatchewan residents with substance use disorder access to physicians, nurses and counsellors who specialize in addiction medicine. (Image Credit: ID 191123368 © Dark1elf | Dreamstime.com)
Controversies and consequences: Five things to know about the census
People across the country completed their census forms this week, sharing details about their lives, which languages they speak and - for those who got the long-form census - information about their s...
May 13, 2026 The Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa are seen on Tuesday, May 1, 2013. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)
Core Days organizer believes mining industry on the edge of renewed prosperity
With interest in the Northern Saskatchewan mining industry heating up, an annual conference in La Ronge focused on the subject is having its highest attendance ever. That's according to Keewatin Commu...
May 12, 2026 Core Days is being held at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band's Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre. (Image Credit: Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
UN, First Nations leaders say Liberals must pass Indian Act changes as 'priority'
A United Nations panel is calling on Ottawa to eliminate the second-generation cutoff in the Indian Act "as a matter of priority."Current law uses a formula to determine whether an individual qualifie...
May 12, 2026 Sharon McIvor of the Human Rights Committee, left, speaks as Grand Chief Stewart Phillip looks on as they address a news conference in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 regarding an investigation regarding the root causes of violence against Indigenous women in Canada. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)
Meet the 89-year-old blacksmith keeping the craft alive
MARCELIN, SASK. - Pop's Old Forge is the kind of place that feels familiar, even if you've never been there before.It's like a grandfather's workshop, where nothing is thrown out and everything has a ...
May 12, 2026 Pop’s Old Forge near Marcelin has become a living classroom where 89-year-old Hubert Smith forges iron and keeps a nearly lost trade burning bright. (Image Credit: Brittany Caffet/650 CKOM)
Saskatchewan still focused on floodwaters, local states of emergency drop to 18
An update from the province revealed that as of Monday, the number of communities under current declarations of local emergency was 18, down from around 34 on Sunday.As of 2 p.m. on Monday, May 11, ma...
May 11, 2026 The roof of the gazebo at Pasquia Regional Park was almost covered by Carrot River floodwaters last week. The WSA has reported record flows in parts of the Carrot River. (Image Credit: Smoky Burn/Facebook)
UPDATE: Man dies after bear attack in remote area of northern Saskatchewan
A 27-year-old man is dead after an encounter with a black bear near a remote airstrip in northern Saskatchewan.The Ministry of Community Safety said the man died Friday roughly 80 km northeast of Poin...
May 11, 2026 (Image Credit: ID 875031 © Mike Rogal | Dreamstime.com)
Cruise ship hantavirus cases not a threat to Saskatchewan residents: expert
A recent hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship anchored near the Canary Islands is not a cause for concern in Saskatchewan, according to a provincial microbiologist.Dr. Joseph Blondeau, a clinical ...
May 11, 2026 Dr. Joseph Blondeau says in Saskatchewan humans are typically exposed to hantavirus through contact with rodents or rodent droppings. (Image Credit: ID 235075451 © Michael Siluk | Dreamstime.com)
Canadians on ship at centre of hantavirus outbreak land in Canada
Four Canadians who disembarked the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak landed Sunday in B.C., where they will continue their quarantine.Online plane tracking platform FlightAware...
May 11, 2026 Passengers board a plane bound for Canada, after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (Image Credit: AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)