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Tony Cote First Nations Summer Games promotes health and wellness with Wellness Tent
The Tony Cote First Nations Summer Games isn't only about competition and athletics, it also promotes different aspects of health and wellness.Justin Mizu was one of the speakers at the Wellness Tent ...
Jul 17, 2019 Justin Mizu spoke about his life and dealing with addiction at the Wellness Tent in Flying Dust. The Wellness Tent has several speakers talking about different aspects on health and wellness. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
Man vs. beast: The catch of a lifetime
North Battleford's Bill Landrie has fished in the North Saskatchewan River for essentially his entire life. Ever since he was three years old and his parents first took him out to cast a line off the ...
Jul 17, 2019 Bill Landrie, pictured here with his prized catch, a 64-pound sturgeon out of the North Saskatchewan River. (submitted photo/Janet Lynn)
Latchkey kids: What’s legal in Saskatchewan?
Like the majority of provinces, Saskatchewan does not have a stipulated age at which a child can be safely left alone in any location. That makes leaving kids unsupervised a bit of a legal grey area a...
Jul 16, 2019 The Canada Safety Council recommends children be a minimum of 10 years old before being left alone. (ID 132732295 © Romrodinka | Dreamstime.com)
FSIN calls for ban of Williams and Ree at Country Thunder
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling on Craven Country Thunder to banish comic duo Williams and Ree.The duo has MCed events for over 20 years at the festival.This comes aft...
Jul 16, 2019 Comedy due Terry Ree and Bruce Williams. (Williams and Ree Twitter page)
Two M.L. minor baseball teams win hometown tournament
Both Meadow Lake Provincial Sox teams are heading into provincials with strong hometown tournament wins.The 11U Sox faced the Prince Albert Royals for their first game in the tournament on July 12 and...
Jul 15, 2019 The Meadow Lake 13U Provincial Sox (pictured) won a tournament in their hometown last weekend. The 11U team also held and won a tournament in Meadow Lake that same weekend. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW Staff)
RCMP release sketches of two suspects involved in home invasion, shooting
Composite sketches of two suspects involved in a home invasion and shooting last month have been released by the RCMP.Police say officers attended a Meadow Lake apartment June 30 to respond to a compl...
Jul 15, 2019 (submitted photo/Meadow Lake RCMP)
Métis youth heading to Kenya for program says learning has no borders
For Gavin Blondeau, learning doesn't end in the classroom, it's a way of life. That's why the Mtis youth is over the moon to be one of two youth from Saskatchewan selected in an international internsh...
Jul 14, 2019 Métis youth Gavin Blondeau, the son of one of the current Chapel Gallery show artists, has been selected for an internship program that will take him to Kenya. (Submitted photo/Gavin Blondeau)
New support beds for mental health patients soon to come for North Battleford, other cities in Sask.
Research shows stable housing combined with various levels of community support can lead to better outcomes for people with complex mental health and addictions issues. That from Executive Director of...
Jul 14, 2019 Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff
Canadian citizen has been detained in China, Global Affairs confirms
Global Affairs Canada says a Canadian citizen has been detained in Yantai, China.The department says officials have provided consular services to the person in custody.It said in an email statement on...
Jul 13, 2019
Three tornadoes touch down in southern Saskatchewan
Environment Canada confirms three tornadoes touched down during a stormy afternoon across southern Saskatchewan on Friday.The first was a waterspout tornado over Old Wives Lake near Moose Jaw around 1...
Jul 13, 2019 Screen grab from a video of a tornado near Rockglen on July 12, 2019 (Jared Mysko/YouTube)