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The Province of Saskatchewan will provide an additional $3.3 million per year to Approved Private Service Homes and Mental Health Approved Homes that care for adults with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health issues.

Plans have been in place for a while to install a dehumidification unit at the Kinsmen Arena.

The province announced that it will direct an additional $17.

Saskatchewan's Crown corporations will support STARS air ambulance operations with a five-year, $10 million contribution.

The province is a step closer to recruiting family physicians from India. A Saskatchewan delegation recently returned from a first-ever recruitment mission to the country.

Yorkton Municipal Airport received an early Christmas present last week in the form of a $250,000 cheque from the federal government. Yorkton-Melville MP Garry Breitkreuz announced the funding Tuesday at the airport.

New figures released by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation show urban housing starts in November of 2012 were up by 53.6 per cent over November of last year, ranking Saskatchewan first among the provinces in terms of percentage growth.

NHL hockey star Jarret Stoll is featured on a Sunrise Health Region billboard and is helping the region to promote the "Be a Champion of your Health" campaign.

I suppose the old adage about good things coming in small packages is as over-used as any. But in terms of Kart sur Glace it fits. Kart sur Glace comes in a plastic box which would normally hold two decks of regular playing cards.

St. Michael's Christmas Concert. GSSD band concert. MC Knoll Christmas Concert.