Battlefords News-Optimist

Métis Nation–Saskatchewan (MN-S) announced Friday it is stepping in to provide funding to The Lighthouse Serving the Battlefords emergency shelter to keep it open during the pandemic.

Canada’s environment minister says he is reluctant to ask the public service to come up with a plan to achieve an emissions target in 2025, setting up a possible clash with opposition members over the government's climate bill.

Agriculture is responsible for about eight per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. But newly released internal documents suggest the federal government denies that Canada needs to take action to rapidly reduce them.

All four cases headed to Lloydminster, Alta., court

Vaccines Reported An additional 2,789 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 86,879.

An alleged gang member charged in connection to an incident on New Year’s Day where Onion Lake RCMP were shot at during a high-speed chase asked the court for time to save money for a lawyer.

An Onion Lake man accused of killing Braden Richard Bull, 32, has changed lawyers, forcing more adjournments.

From the Saskatchewan Crimestoppers page: Here are 10 individuals that are now wanted this week due to being unlawfully at large.

“I want to say something to the three of you today,” Saskatchewan Justice Gerry Allbright told the grieving family members of murder victim Mark Douglas Jonson, 61. “Mark Jonson is not just a name to me. He was a person loved.

It has been confirmed Thursday by the province that they will be offering the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to all Saskatchewan adults by the end of June.