Battlefords News-Optimist

Ian Tian is a postgraduate student at the University of Toronto who came to Canada from China three years ago.

Year-round cottage dwellers hope their seasonal, city-based neighbours remember one thing as the weather warms — pandemic rules are just as strict in the country as they are in the city.

According to Correctional Service Canada, during the 10:30 p.m. count on May 1, staff members at Willow Cree Healing Lodge, a minimum-security federal institution, discovered that Matthew Stamper was not accounted for.

The office of the northern Medical Health Officers for the Saskatchewan Health Authority and the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority have declared an outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Beauval following an increasing number of cases.

Submitted The City of North Battleford will begin the 2020 unidirectional flushing on Monday, May 4 with an estimated end date of Monday, May 25.

As of May 1, Saskatchewan has 26 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 415.

The Government of Saskatchewan is providing $1 million to support a province-wide marketing campaign to encourage Saskatchewan residents to support local businesses and their employees.

​The Saskatchew​an Health Authority is expanding its testing and contact tracing in La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation as it continues its vigorous approach to deal with an outbreak of COVID-19 in the area.

The Saskatchewan Health Authorit​​​y is investigating contacts linked to an inpatient in the Prince Albert Victoria Hospital who has tested positive for COVID-19.

A Meadow Lake woman facing weapons charges after the Saskatchewan Emergency Response Team (ERT) raided two homes was released on bail April 30. Monica Bouvier, 24, was arrested April 19, along with Cassidy Dillon Regan, 29, and Cory Bouvier, 30.