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Regina – The Saskatchewan government announced on Sept. 25 it is providing more than $532,000 to police agencies, community-based organizations and the Victims’ Fund for new policing tools and programming through the Civil Forfeiture Program.

Today, Deputy Premier and Education Minister Gordon Wyant is proud to congratulate Renae Lech of Gravelbourg on being Saskatchewan's winner of the 2020 Council of the Federation’s Literacy award.

Regina – On Sept. 23, NDP Leader Ryan Meili targeted political party finance reform in the run-up to this fall’s election. Meili spoke of “the need to get big money out of Saskatchewan politics.

Lighthouse Labs and Saskatchewan Polytechnic, with the assistance of Innovation Saskatchewan, have entered into a partnership that will benefit Saskatchewan’s technology sector.

The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan are signing a letter of commitment with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) promising to address death by suicide among Indigenous youth as a priority.

Yorkton Tourism sees it as positive to sector

An Onion Lake man made his first court appearance in Lloydminster Provincial Court Sept. 22 on second-degree murder charges. Vega Bear, 24, is charged in connection to the death of Braden Richard Bull of Little Pine First Nation.

Major infrastructure projects that have gotten the greenlight from the provincial government will now head to Ottawa to seek additional funding.

Relatively warm, dry conditions this week allowed farmers to make good harvest progress. Rainfall on the weekend caused some delays but many farmers have since returned to the field.

There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on September 24, bringing the total to 1,835 reported cases. The new cases are located in the Saskatoon (2), Central West (1), Regina (1) and South Central (1) zones.