Local News

On Tuesday, Dec.r 8, between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., Meadow Lake RCMP received two reports of an armed robbery in the Green Lake area and another report of an armed robbery in the Meadow Lake area.

More than 20 years after she became the longest-serving woman in her firehall, Michelle Vandevord of Muskoday First Nation is the first female president of the Aboriginal Firefighters Association of Canada (AFAC).

A former student of a U.S. band teacher - who is a music director for the North Battleford Kinsmen Band – was awarded $2 million Dec. 4 in her sexual abuse civil lawsuit against a Washington school district and former band teacher Michael Alstad.

HUDSON BAY — The Dec. 1 Crown petroleum and natural gas public offering highlighted the sale of several leases for “oil shale” southwest of Hudson Bay.

As if Saskatchewan needed any more nonsense in the year 2020, now the power’s gone out at the legislature.

On Dec. 6, at approximately 10:15 a.m., Stanley Mission RCMP responded to the report of a 37-year-old male snowmobiler who went missing on Lac La Ronge.

Six residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. Five of these individuals were in their 80s, from the North West (1), Regina (3) and South East (1) zones. One individual in their 30s was from the North Central zone.

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt area conservation officers are asking for the public’s help to locate a mule deer buck that has a string of Christmas lights tangled in its antlers. The deer was reported within the Humboldt community on Dec. 8.

HUMBOLDT — Five local businesses in the area were each presented $3,000 by Sagehill Community Futures for responding to COVID-19 in unique and innovative ways.

EAST CENTRAL — The Mid-Sask Municipal Alliance (MSMA) is building a database of businesses located 100 kilometers from the BHP Jensen Potash Project.