Local News

North Battleford residents are being reminded to be careful where they are parking their cars, because the city is resuming issuing parking tickets in some areas.

MELFORT — The Canada Day Melfort committee is adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic with a fireworks display that the region can enjoy together.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic killing oil prices and grinding most of Saskatchewan’s economy to a halt through March and April, its impact on the agriculture sector is more of an economic blip, showing a “mixed bag” of price gains and losses, accordi

The COVID-19 pandemic is marking an unfamiliar milestone for auctioneer Blair Stenberg — the first time in three decades he’s been at home, missing the spring auction circuit. “I really miss the road and the travel and the people and everything.

LANIGAN — A Town of Lanigan booth located at the sports ground was broken into, resulting in $700 worth of damages. Humboldt-Lanigan RCMP said the crime took place between June 4 and June 8.

UPDATE: At approximately 10 a.m. on June 15, 2020, inmate Carey Henry turned himself in to the Saskatoon Police Service. This inmate had been unlawfully at large from the minimum security unit at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary since June 10, 2020.

Submitted by Sask Lotteries Neilburg’s Terry Simon has a unique way of playing his Zing tickets. Rather than scratch the whole ticket, he’ll just scratch the bar code and then use the ticket checker in store to see if he’s a winner.

Surgical and imagining volumes at Saskatchewan Health Authority facilities will increase starting June 16 as the authority enters Phase III of its reopening plan.

HUMBOLDT — Due to the pandemic, rather than having one large ceremony, the Humboldt Collegiate Institute held 84 individual graduations so each student could walk across the stage.

HUMBOLDT — Council has approved $374,000 worth of work on the Seventh Street repaving and beautification project. The concrete work for the project, which goes from Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue, will cost $199,000 plus tax.