Author Archives: Lara Fominoff

Saskatoon's new Emergency Wellness Centre has been open for less than a week, and staff are already working on extensive expansion plans. The downtown wellness centre -- formerly located at 145 1st Av...

The rising cost of groceries is hitting many people hard in the pocketbook, but especially those who are on fixed incomes like many seniors. According to Canada's Food Price Report, the cost of grocer...

Saskatoon's new Emergency Wellness Centre, located in the city's Fairhaven neighbourhood, has opened its doors and already has nearly 100 people staying there. The Saskatoon Tribal Council runs the ce...

During Saskatoon budget deliberations earlier this week, Saskatoon city council settled on a 3.93 per cent property tax increase for 2023. That was down from the initially proposed 4.38 per cent, but ...

Job offers have been accepted by nearly two dozen health-care workers so far in the Philippines, according to Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Andrew Will. In an effort to address Saskatchewan's shor...

At least a dozen cars have derailed on a Canadian Pacific rail line near the village of Macoun, about 20 kilometres northwest of Estevan. According to Carmen Dodd-Vicary, the village's chief administr...

A Saskatoon City Councillor wants the city to explore options to address what he described as the "smell of rotting corpses," on the city's north side. Randy Donauer said he believes the unpleasant od...

After two days of deliberations, Saskatoon city councillors passed the 2023 budget on Tuesday with a 3.93 per cent property tax increase. For a home assessed at $344,000, it means around an extra $6.5...

Saskatoon city councillors have begun deliberations on the second year of their two year budget cycle. While the 2023 budget was approved last year at a total of $1.28 billion, administration is propo...

Saskatchewan's first, state -of -the -art surgical robotics system is now up and running at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon. The $2.5 million dollar "da Vinci Surgical System" was first announced at ...