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Physical activity offers running start to a healthy school year
As the summer season winds down and the leaves begin to change, a new school year is on the horizon. Whether getting involved with an extracurricular sports team, or enjoying the refreshing fall breez...
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First arrests made as Loon Lake RCMP work to suppress gang activity
The first arrests have been made as officers in Loon Lake work on a project to suppress gang activity and drug sales in the community. On Aug. 18, 29-year-old Matthew Belly from Onion Lake and Nicole ...
Aug 28, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Kid Zone program considered a success
A pilot project bringing a new place to play for children has kept the Meadow Lake arena busy this summer.According to Robin Mitchell, parks and recreation manager, the Kid Zone saw over 1,000 visits ...
Aug 27, 2019 The Kid Zone and pickleball courts were set up in the Meadow Lake arena this summer as part of a pilot project. The project looked at using underused facilities in the summer and providing programming for the facility. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
‘Event of the summer’ says researcher on Meadow Lake Provincial Park tornadoes
For David Sills, the weather system that tore through part of Meadow Lake Provincial Park over the Canada Day long weekend was the event of the summer for tornadoes.The executive director with the Nor...
Aug 27, 2019 Drone imagery from the Northern Tornadoes Project shows uprooted and downed trees after a storm tore through Meadow Lake Provincial Park on June 29. (supplied/Northern Tornadoes Project)
Provincial Archives offers glimpse into past with digitalization of historic newspapers online
This September will mark the 80th anniversary since the outbreak of the Second World War.To commemorate the occasion, the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan are releasing digitized copies of communit...
Aug 26, 2019 Headlines from Thursday, Sept. 7, 1939 in the North Battleford News. (Supplied/Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan)
Father of suspected B.C. killer seeks access to video taken before son's death
VANCOUVER - The father of a suspected killer of three people in northern British Columbia is trying to access a video his son took which details his last wishes before his death. A lawyer fo...
Aug 26, 2019
SGI: Use caution when passing farm machinery on the roads
As harvest begins in earnest in Saskatchewan, farm machinery is going to be more active on the province's roads and highways.According to SGI, data from the past six years shows there have been more c...
Aug 25, 2019 (File photo/CKOM)
Is federal carbon tax killing jobs? Experts say answer isn’t ‘black and white’
farmREGINA - The Saskatchewan government says the federal carbon tax is killing jobs, but experts and even the province's trade minister say it's not that easy to calculate.The government reports that...
Aug 25, 2019 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe (file photo/CP)
Groups ready campaign to help young voters identify ‘fake news’ in election
Samantha Reusch is aiming to help young Canadians identify misinformation online because she and her colleagues can't monitor all social media platforms for false information during this fall's campai...
Aug 24, 2019 Caro Loutfi, right, manager of Apathy is Boring, and Samantha Reusch are seen in their office in Montreal on Wednesday, August 21, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson)
Forest fires can contribute to depletion of soil carbon, increase global climate: UofS study
A new study on how forest fires contribute to depleting soil carbon in the boreal forest was published in the prestigious Nature scientific journal.The research team included University of Saskatchewa...
Aug 23, 2019 2014 was the largest fire season in N.W.T. history (File photo/battlefordsNOW).