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Manitoba announces health order changes, small gatherings, businesses back with limits

Manitoba announces health order changes, small gatherings, businesses back with limits

Some health orders and restrictions affecting Manitoba, including the north, will be eased starting Friday. The province announced the changes Feb. 9, going into effect Feb. 12.

Canada-wide warrant issued for murder suspect with ties to North Battleford

STRATHCONA COUNTY – Alberta RCMP Major Crimes are seeking the public’s help locating a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant in connection to a murder investigation. Christian Nyabirungu, 35, of Edmonton, Alta.

Global bee diversity is dropping — and our food systems depend on them

Almost a quarter of the estimated 20,000 bee species on Earth may be in decline, researchers have found.

Toughest year for Saskatchewan, premier tells municipal leaders

Regina– It’s been a tough year, with lots of tough decisions. But we will get back to normal again.

B.C.’s ‘dirty secret’:

more than 100 contaminated mine sites threaten water, wildlife and communities

‘This Can Really Save Someone’s Life’

Working in small northern and interior First Nations communities scattered across hills and winding valleys, registered nurse Kate Hodgson says finding treatment options for people who use substances can be just as difficult as navigating the landsca

Hayward beats Barnhart for Municipalities of Sask. presidency

Gordon Barnhart is gone as the head of the association representing Saskatchewan cities, towns, and villages amid criticism of his travel to Hawaii and his views on amalgamation.
Man who killed his father believed ‘imposters' were killing and impersonating people he knew

Man who killed his father believed ‘imposters' were killing and impersonating people he knew

On May 30, 2018, twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Roy Tucker shot and killed his fifty-nine-year-old father Gordon Ernest Tucker. But, when he brutally murdered the father he was close to, he thought his dad was someone else.
Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday

(EDITOR’S NOTE: All stories were previously published in the Kamsack Times in 1986.)
Fire destroys two-storey home in Togo

Fire destroys two-storey home in Togo

Around 5 p.m. on January 24, the Kamsack Fire Department responded to a structure fire on third street in Togo. “When we arrived, fire had fully engulfed the home,” said Kamsack Fire Chief, Ken Thompson.
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