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Families prepare for online Easter celebrations in times of COVID-19 reality

Families in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake will need to start planning to celebrate Easter at home alone with their family, or on their own, instead of heading to church this year due to COVID-19 res...

Apr 01, 2020 Rev. Trevor Malyon stands alone at St. Paul's Anglican Church in North Battleford Wednesday, surrounded by empty pews. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Sister of woman who died from COVID-19 urges public to follow precautions and stay home

Battlefords resident Eleanor Widdowson is urging her community and the rest of Saskatchewan to "follow the rules" after her sister died from COVID-19 the day before receiving her test result.Widdowson...

Mar 31, 2020 The family of Alice Grove, 75, (pictured), is urging the province to release locations of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 to prevent further transmission. (submitted photo/ Eleanor Widdowson)

Youth worker, hockey coach one of Alberta's latest COVID-19 victims

HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. - The wife of a northern Alberta man who died this week of complications due to COVID-19 says he will be remembered as a loving father and someone who cared for youth in his commun...

Mar 31, 2020

P.A. woman receives parade for 40th birthday

Dozens of Shannon Billo's closest friends and family showed up for her 40th birthday on Thursday in Prince Albert, and none of the province's social distancing rules were breached.Shannon and her husb...

Mar 27, 2020 (submitted photo/Cory Lillis)

Local mayor creates youth competition to help pass time during school closures

A local mayor is trying to spark the creative juices and help pass the time during the COVID-19 pandemic by organizing a youth competition on his Facebook page.Battlefords Mayor Ames Leslie is challen...

Mar 25, 2020 Town of Battleford Mayor Ames Leslie creates youth contest. (File photo/battlefordsNOW staff)

Sask. woman living down under during COVID-19 crisis

A retired teacher from the Prince Albert area is hundreds of miles from home and her children during the COVID-19 crisis.Kathryn Hughes has dual Canadian - Australian citizenship, and after spending f...

Mar 25, 2020 A photo taken of Kathryn Hughes (middle) with her two oldest children before she left Canada last October. (Submitted photo/ Kathryn Hughes)

No extension for ice fishers to remove shacks

As the weather warms and the ice thins, the COVID-19 outbreak is not going to be an excuse to leave your ice-fishing shack on the ice. A Prince Albert Conservation Officer is reminding everyone all fi...

Mar 24, 2020 Ice-fishing shacks north of Highway 16 must be removed from lakes by March 31. (Ronald Quaroni/paNOW Staff)

Battlefords residents advised to flush only toilet paper

The City of North Battleford released a statement to the public to remind residents not to flush anything down the toilet aside from toilet paper. The list, available on the city's website, includes c...

Gas gouge? Call for a review of pump prices

Despite the free-falling price of oil in recent weeks, some places are not seeing that translate into the decrease in pump prices that others have. In recent days Prince Albert, Melfort and North Batt...

Mar 20, 2020 (file photo/paNOW Staff)

Government announces change to childcare facilities in schools

The Government of Saskatchewan is making a notable change to childcare facilities in schools.According to a media release, starting on Monday the facilities will be repurposed to provide childcare ser...

Mar 20, 2020 St. Francis School. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)