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Health Authority to continue mass vaccination program, COVID and flu vaccine both available

With COVID-19 numbers continuing to rise, Saskatchewan residents will now have the opportunity to receive both their COVID and flu vaccines.With influenza vaccination clinics starting in Saskatchewan ...

Oct 12, 2021

Major Crimes Unit investigating after teen found seriously injured in Onion Lake

The Major Crimes Unit (MCU) has taken over the RCMP investigation of an incident that left a 17-year-old injured on Onion Lake First Nation.Police in Onion Lake received a call on Oct. 8 regarding an ...

Oct 12, 2021

National survey results to inform new standards for long-term care

OTTAWA - Canadian long-term care homes do not currently provide safe, reliable care, and they should put the needs and rights of residents first, according to the respondents of a survey that will hel...

Oct 11, 2021

Saskatchewan sees first snowfall of the season

It may have not stuck around for long, but snow did hit the ground in Saskatchewan's northwest Sunday.According to Environment Canada's Chris Stammers, one or two centimetres hit the ground overnight,...

Oct 11, 2021

VIDO InterVac working on two-pronged approach for its COVID vaccine

At a time when COVID-19 vaccines are plentiful in Canada, there are some countries in the world that still barely have any.Volker Gerdts, the director and CEO of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Org...

Oct 11, 2021

NHL set to return: 'A little more of a normal season'

Mark Scheifele is ready for the NHL to feel normal again. And after 19 months living in a global pandemic, very different at the same time. Fans in the stands, road trips to the U.S., and bonding with...

Oct 11, 2021

Charge dropped in Ontario man's terrorism hoax case: Lawyer

OTTAWA - The lawyer for an Ontario man charged with falsely claiming to have committed terrorist acts says his client is relieved after the charge was withdrawn.Shehroze Chaudhry was arrested and char...

Oct 10, 2021

RCMP searching for two vehicles after robbery on Highway 3

The Maidstone RCMP are searching for a truck and a van after a robbery with a firearm happened on highway 3 in the RM of Britannia near the communities of Paradise Hill and Frenchman Butte.According t...

Oct 10, 2021

Federal officials rethink wording of markers at gravesites of past prime ministers

OTTAWA - It was in late January that vandals so badly scratched out the face of Mackenzie King on an awareness panel by the former prime minister's final resting place in Toronto that a federal agency...

Oct 10, 2021

Sask. doctors advising to keep Thanksgiving gatherings small, outside

Doctors across the province have some advice to stay healthy and safe this Thanksgiving long weekend.At Thursday's Saskatchewan Health Authority physicians' town hall, medical health officer Dr. Johnm...

Oct 09, 2021