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According to Manitoba RCMP, the Underwater Recovery Team has completed their work following the discovery of a boat on the shore of the Nelson River. They will not be conducting any additional dives.

Submitted The Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum and the Shiloh Baptist Church and Cemetery Restoration Society celebrated a little known part of Saskatchewan history at an event Saturday, Aug. 3.

As the search for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmeglsky continues,RCMP are able to provide the following update. On Friday afternoon, RCMP officers searching from a helicopter, located a damaged aluminum boat on the shore of the Nelson River.

Larry Griffiths is keeping active in retirement by doing more than an occasional walk around the block. Griffiths, from British Columbia, is riding his bike from Saskatoon to Vancouver along the Trans-Canada Trail.

The RCMP have announced that to assist in the ongoing search for the two suspects wanted in connection to homicides in British Columbia, the Manitoba RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team (URT) will be arriving in Gillam tonight - Saturday, Aug. 3.

Submitted The number of people hurt or killed in traffic collisions on Saskatchewan roads continues to trend downwards, with substantially lower numbers in 2018 than the previous 10-year average.

CNW - The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is warning the public about ongoing email, text messages or telephone scams in which people posing as officials from the CBSA are asking for personal information, including Social Insurance Number (SIN).

Hunger doesn’t take a summer holiday, the food bank’s Erin Katerynych said. The Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre, located at 1171 – 101st St.

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On July 31, 2019, police officers from the Pelican Narrows RCMP detachment were called to Father’s Lake, five kilometres north of Pelican Narrows, following the report of a missing male who had been swimming in front of the rocks and beach area of th