Sarah Mills: Teachers deserve gratitude as school year wraps up
There's a collective sigh coming from Saskatchewan's teachers as the school year ends. Sarah Mills says teachers are ask...
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Saskatchewan ICE Unit sees big increase in caseload in 2020
Saskatchewan's Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit was dealing with a very heavy caseload in 2020. According to ICE co-ordinator Staff Sgt. Scott Lambie, the unit dealt with about 700 files in 2020...
Jan 12, 2021
'Right now, it’s really scary:' Outreach worker, chief coroner reflect on 2020 overdose crisis
Now that 2020 is in the rearview mirror, we're learning more about the deadliest overdose year on record in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Coroners Service provided an update Monday to the public, out...
Jan 12, 2021 (avert.org)
Federal inmates to receive COVID vaccine Friday under pilot program, union says
By Nigel Maxwell The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to federal inmates. The 600 doses were distributed Friday among inmates at Saskatoon's Regional Psychiatric Centre, the ...
Jan 12, 2021 Located about one kilometre west of the city of Prince Albert, the Saskatchewan Penitentiary has been in operation since 1911. (paNOW staff)
Sask. pharmacists looking for more details on vaccine plan
Many pharmacists in the province are ready and able to start giving out COVID-19 vaccines, according to the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan. Now they're just waiting to find out where they fit in...
Jan 11, 2021
Email mistake leads to privacy investigation into Sask. hunting licence system
An investigation has been opened into thousands of emails sent to the wrong people through the province's Hunting, Angling and Trapping Licence (HAL) system. Last last week, the third-party company th...
Jan 11, 2021
Saskatchewan more than doubled overdose death record in 2020: Coroners service report
2020 was the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses in Saskatchewan. According to the latest report from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service, a total of 379 drug toxicity deaths were recorded over ...
Jan 11, 2021 A kit containing two doses of naloxone and supplies for performing CPR. (650 CKOM file photo)
Former Saskatchewan RCMP officer pleads guilty to breach of trust
A former Saskatchewan RCMP officer pleaded guilty to breach of trust by a public officer in Court of Queen's Bench in Battleford on Monday. Wade Chitrena accessed at least one sensitive image of an ad...
Jan 11, 2021 (battlefordsNOW file photo)
Crackers closes for cleaning; SHA says karaoke not a risk factor in investigation
Crackers Restaurant is closing its doors temporarily, as the facility gets a deep clean following a late-Sunday warning of a COVID-19 exposure from the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA). The Saskato...
Jan 11, 2021 (Crackers Restaurant/Facebook)
Two men injured in Saturday plane crash near Archerwill
Two men suffered serious injuries after a plane crash Saturday near Archerwill. According to the RCMP, the Greenwater detachment received a report just before 10 a.m., that a plane had crashed about n...
Jan 11, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Sask. home builder predicts drop in lumber prices this spring
A Saskatchewan home builder is predicting some relief from high lumber prices in time for the spring building season. "(By) late March, early April we expect a drop as much of 30 per cent in the marke...
Jan 11, 2021
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