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Liberal minority survives confidence vote in the Commons with NDP and Green backing

OTTAWA - The Liberal minority government survives another day after a majority of MPs voted against a Conservative motion to create a special anticorruption committee.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had...

Oct 21, 2020

Possible COVID-19 exposure in Sask. communities including P.A.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting the residents of possible COVID-19 exposures at businesses in multiple communities including Prince Albert.The SHA is instructing those who were at ...

Oct 21, 2020

Council candidate brings more than 30 years of municipal government experience

Richard Levesque knows the ins and outs of municipal affairs in Meadow Lake. The council incumbent, who won a by-election last November, previously worked for the city from 1981 to 2009 as the assista...

Teena Monteleone Oct 21, 2020

Trudeau Liberals face confidence vote over proposed anticorruption committee

OTTAWA - A dispute over the scope and composition of a House of Commons committee will come to a head today in a vote that could trigger a federal election in the midst of the second deadly wave of CO...

Oct 21, 2020

Province records 44 new COVID-19 cases, working to determine sources of transmission

The province has recorded 44 new cases of COVID-19, and 14 recoveries. The provincial total is now at 2,439 cases. The new cases are located in the Far North West (two), Far North East (one), North We...

Oct 20, 2020

RCMP search for escaped Besnard Lake inmate

Pinehouse Lake RCMP is asking for help to locate an escaped prisoner from Besnard Lake Correctional Facility.Travis Tyler Smith, 29, left the facility at 2:10 p.m. Friday.It's not clear which directio...

Oct 19, 2020

Non-essential travel restrictions at Canada-U.S. border extended to at least Nov. 21

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Restrictions on non-essential travel between Canada and the United States are being extended until at least Nov. 21. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair confirmed the news toda...

Oct 19, 2020

‘Now they’re getting concerned,’ Shahab says about health-care officials

With fall well underway, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer says those in the health-care system are starting to worry again."We've had low hospitalizations, (with) low ICU and hospital admis...

Oct 19, 2020

Rosthern Hospital closed temporarily following COVID-19 case

UPDATE: As of 8 a.m. this morning, services have resumed at the Rosthern Hospital, which include emergency and outpatient services.-Those looking for emergency services in the Rosthern area won't be a...

Oct 18, 2020

Trump, Biden go on offence in states they're trying to flip

LAS VEGAS - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offence Sunday, with each campaigning in states they are trying to flip during the Nov. 3 election that is just over two weeks...

Oct 18, 2020