Saskatchewan

Workers at long-term care homes will be assessed each shift, COVID-19 provincial total at 220

Employees at long-term care homes will have their temperatures checked before the beginning of each shift after an assisted living worker tested positive for the virus. The worker is one of 14 new con...

Apr 03, 2020

Local hotel providing free rooms to frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19

A local hotel is offering its assistance to frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Comfort Inn and Suites in North Battleford will offer frontline healthcare workers free rooms to s...

Apr 03, 2020 Comfort Inn and Suites offering free rooms to frontline healthcare workers. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Work continues behind closed gates at national parks

While the COVID-19 outbreak has led Parks Canada to close facilities to the public, including Prince Albert National Park, staff are still at work.Ed Jager, Parks Canada's director of visitor experien...

Apr 03, 2020 Workers in P.A. National Park prepare the fuel break in the winter. (file photo/paNOW Staff).

Local campaign to feed kids during COVID-19 pandemic

A local grocer is participating in a campaign aimed at giving kids easier access to school meal supports during the COVID-19 pandemic.Save-On-Foods, part of the Jim Pattison Group, has committed $500,...

Apr 03, 2020 (Save-On-Foods)

Indigenous strategy launched to help communities access credible COVID-19 information

A new strategy developed in Saskatchewan, geared to Indigenous communities, is looking to provide credible, and easy to access information on the COVID-19 global pandemic."Protecting Our Home Fires" w...

Apr 02, 2020 "Protecting Our Home Fires" is a strategy geared to show Indigenous communities credible information amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)

RCMP respond to hundreds of COVID-19 calls in March

The Saskatchewan RCMP are getting a new kind of call for service in response to the provincial Public Health Order issued on March 26.According to a media release from RCMP, officers received 436 COVI...

Apr 02, 2020 (File photo/meadowlakeNOW)

Provincial gov’t adds to list of flights that carried COVID-19 cases

Seven flights have been added to the provincial government's list of those that carried passengers who since have tested positive for COVID-19.As well, one flight that previously was listed has been u...

Apr 02, 2020 (CKOM News Staff)

Provincial COVID-19 total now at 206

There are 13 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, with the total cases now at 206. Two people are receiving hospital inpatient care in Saskatoon. Two patients are in intensive care - one i...

Apr 02, 2020

Saskatchewan foodservice sector lost 25,000 jobs in one month

COVID-19 has cost Saskatchewan's food service sector 25,000 jobs since March 1According to a media release, Restaurants Canada estimates 800,000 foodservice jobs have already been lost across the coun...

Apr 02, 2020 (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)

Montreal Lake Cree Nation calls for end to all liquor sales

The Montreal Lake Cree Nation wants the provincial government to end all liquor sales given the COVID-19 pandemic. It said the continued sale of alcohol was leading to high-risk behavior and an increa...

Apr 02, 2020 (file photo/Nigel Maxwell)