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HUMBOLDT — City staff will present a proposed 2021 budget that will require a 1.8 per cent increase in property tax levies – around $128,000 more. The proposal also includes around $1.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting the public of an increase in COVID-19 cases in the Maidstone area and is urging Saskatchewan residents to follow public health measures and personal safety precautions to prevent the spread of the v

One resident in the South zone, who tested positive for COVID-19, has died. The individual was in the 80+ age category.

SASKATOON – A prominent national leader, visionary and researcher in Indigenous health—Carrie Bourassa of the University of Saskatchewan (USask)—was honoured with an Achievement Award from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) today.

With the election of Colin Ratushniak and Julie Baschuk, and the re-election of Chief Tammy Cook-Searson, the leaders of the Lac La Ronge Tri-Community are excited to start working together to improve the Lac La Ronge area.

Continuing to defy earlier predictions of a weak housing market due to COVID, the Saskatchewan real estate market remains strong and has outperformed last year’s market. Across the province, sales were up over 54% from last November (and up 22.

The Congress of Aboriginals Peoples (CAP) is calling on the resignation of Saskatchewan’s Minister of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety Christine Tell. More than 100 inmates at Saskatoon Correctional Centre have tested positive for COVID-19.

Submitted North West College awarded just over $70,000 in Entrance Scholarships in mid-November 2020.

On Dec. 3, Glaslyn RCMP Detachment received a theft of quad complaint from the Village of Glaslyn. The quad is a 2017 Arctic Cat, red in color with a double rider seat and snorkel on the front. The theft occurred between 11:30 p.m.

A few days after the global pandemic was declared, Jim Boire got a text from his daughter Rebecca Erker, a Royal University Hospital intensive care unit nurse. Erker is working on her PhD with the respiratory research centre in Saskatoon.