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Public Service Announcement from the SHA: On July 11, 2021, Saskatchewan will enter Phase 3 of the re-open Saskatchewan plan and all remaining Public Health Orders will be removed, including mandatory masking indoors.

Wednesday marked a notable milestone for the province of Saskatchewan in its fight against COVID-19. “Today will be our last regularly scheduled COVID briefing,” Premier Scott Moe said at the latest media conference.

The issue of the thousands of Indigenous children who suffered abuse and later died in residential schools have been hogging the headlines the last two months.

A woman sentenced to four years in prison for her part in an incident where police were shot at on Onion Lake Cree Nation broke down and sobbed in the prisoner’s box.

Wednesday marked a notable milestone for the province of Saskatchewan in its fight against COVID-19. “Today will be our last regularly scheduled COVID briefing,” Premier Scott Moe said at the latest media conference Wednesday.

From the province: Today, 71 per cent of Saskatchewan residents have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 50 per cent are now fully immunized.

North Battleford Galleries has announced that local artist Heather Hochbaum has been named the recipient of the 2021 Saskatchewan Craft Council's Award for Excellence in Quilting.

One new death is being reported Wednesday in the North West in the provincial government’s COVID-19 report. The death was of a person in the 40-49 age group from the North West zone.

Vaccines Reported An additional 13,719 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 1,247,253. Over half a million Saskatchewan residents are now fully vaccinated.

The king of Westside Outlaws street gang was handed 412 days in prison for weapons-related offences. Terrance Stonechild, 33, appeared in Lloydminster Provincial Court July 7 by CCTV from Saskatoon Correctional Centre.