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HUMBOLDT — New training that will be provided by the Humboldt and District Chamber of Commerce aims to help businesses connect to a growing segment of the province’s population.

A lawyer for a man held in custody for a year since his arrest for a violent Unity home invasion objected to numerous trial delays.

HUMBOLDT — With 2020 in the books, Frank Carpentieri, Humboldt’s planning co-ordinator, is looking back on the number of building permits issued for the city during that time.

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) has been a lifeline to millions of Canadians as they navigated the turbulence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editor’s note – This story comes to us by way of local professional photographer Averil Hall, who through her lenses, sees stories needing to be told. A long time contributor to the News-Optimist, Hall facilitated the publication of this story.

The provincial government released its list of communities receiving charitable gaming grants for the last half of 2020. More than $1.

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), in consultation with Indigenous leaders and communities across Western Canada, has developed the new, exclusive Western Nations gas bar brand.

The North West zone will start getting vaccinations this week. Sunday, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said that, during the weekend, 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were sent to North Battleford.

There were 3,232 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered yesterday in Saskatchewan - the highest one-day total to date. This brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 20,159.