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MLTC calls to establish First Nation emergency response team

Local search and recovery teams are calling on provincial and federal governments for better equipped first responders and search and recovery teams. The plea comes as northern Saskatchewan families a...

Aug 06, 2020

Sask. RCMP's Commanding Officer accepts job offer in B.C.

After nearly two years in Saskatchewan, the province's top RCMP officer is moving on.Commanding Officer Mark Fisher accepted a job as deputy chief of the Oak Bay Police Service in B.C. where he previo...

Aug 06, 2020

Body of missing boy found

The body of a boy who went missing on Makwa Lake over a month ago has been found. A social media post by Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team (HEART) confirmed the body of six-year-old Lian Thund...

Aug 05, 2020

La Ronge protester rejects phone discussion with government minister

UPDATE: This story was updated at 7:40 p.m. to include a statement provided by the government of Saskatchewan which reads, in part:On Wednesday afternoon Minister of Rural and Remote Health Warren Kae...

Aug 05, 2020

Provincial COVID total at 1,376 with eight new cases

There are eight new cases of COVID-19 to report in the province on Aug. 5, bringing the total to 1,376 cases.Of the new cases, there are three in the North East, two in the Saskatoon region, two in th...

Aug 05, 2020

P.A. man shares inspiring tale from walker to poles

A Prince Albert man is sharing his story of the progress he's made learning to be mobile again without his walker.Barry Longjohn, 60, wanted to learn how to walk without such external assistance the m...

Aug 05, 2020

Province’s back-to-school plan ‘squandered opportunity’ for relief to educators, staff, parents: STF

Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Patrick Maze didn't hold back his - or the federation's - feelings on the province's new back-to-school plans Tuesday.Speaking in a Zoom conference just ove...

Aug 05, 2020

‘Worst plan in Canada’: Sask. NDP reacts to Saskatchewan back-to-school plan

The Saskatchewan NDP is giving the province's back-to-school plan an F."(It's) a plan that took two months for the (Minister of Education Gord Wyant) to come up with, a plan that was the last detailed...

Aug 05, 2020

New partnership to support Indigenous students in La Ronge and La Loche

The Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied research (GDI) has partnered up with United Way of Saskatoon and Area as well as the Government of Canada to support northern Saskatchewan In...

Aug 04, 2020

City of Meadow Lake and Chamber of Commerce organize first Bike Rodeo and Car Seat Clinic

Meadow Lake's Chamber of Commerce along with the City of Meadow Lake are hosting its first Bike Rodeo and a Car Seat Clinic this week to promote safety in the community. Jackie Toews, chamber organize...

Aug 04, 2020