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PHOTOS: Lac La Ronge Indian Band celebrates return of evacuees
Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) officials and residents say there's cause for celebration as dozens of evacuees returned home Saturday. "I haven't had a day off since June 6, but I did have a go...
Jul 19, 2015
Wildfire evacuees reunited with their pets
Thousands of evacuees are heading home and now they're picking up their pets.While people were relocated to makeshift shelters, their animals were taken in by the Prince Albert SPCA.On Friday, evacuee...
Jul 18, 2015
Regina-area company gets another military contract
A privately-held company in the Regina area will be building armour-plated cabs for 150 vehicles in the Canadian military after being awarded another military contract.Dumur Industries, based at the o...
Jul 17, 2015
No threat from suspicious package downtown Saskatoon
Saskatoon police have found that a package dropped off downtown on Friday was no threat to the public. Police say it was dropped behind a business near the corner of 1st Avenue North and 23rd Street E...
Jul 17, 2015
Touching care package lifts spirits for firefighters up north
Some volunteer firefighters in La Ronge got a nice pick-me-up this week from children in the Lloydminster area as a care package full of snacks and handwritten cards arrived on Tuesday."When we opened...
Jul 17, 2015
Marijuana plants pop up in planters in downtown Swift Current
RCMP in Swift Current are trying to figure out how a marijuana plant ended up among the purple petunias in planters downtown.Mounties were called Monday morning by someone reporting the potted pot in ...
Jul 17, 2015
La Ronge-area evacuees return home
La Ronge-area evacuees are returning home after the area received a big dose of rain. The mandatory evacuation order for Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Air Ronge and La Ronge has been lifted, according to ...
Jul 17, 2015
Swift Current burlesque performance stopped over Sask. nipple critique
She may be getting some unwanted national attention -- but the head of an annual theatre festival in Swift Current says she would do it again.Denise Wall of the Chautauqua Theatre Festival jumped to t...
Jul 17, 2015
Sask. family struggles to look after evacuated horses
Many evacuees living away from home for weeks have animals they had to relocate as well. Clifford Johnson and his wife Tina were evacuated three weeks ago from La Ronge. They also evacuated seven hors...
Jul 17, 2015
U of S prof studies impact of fire evacuations on First Nations
A University of Saskatchewan professor would like to see families evacuated together when wildfires pose a risk to northern communities.Typically, those with respiratory problems are evacuated first t...
Jul 17, 2015
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