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Submitted The Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan (PATHS) and the Saskatchewan SPCA are conducting research on the connection between animal ownership and animal safekeeping and domestic violence/abuse.

EAST CENTRAL— Melfort, Nipawin and Tisdale have begun discussions on the possibility of submitting a bid to host the 2022 Saskatchewan Winter Games.

For three days this week, the Western Development Museum is hosting a major conference aimed at Indigenous success. It was the Atoskewin Success Gathering 2020, put on by the Atoskewin Success Centre Tuesday through Thursday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.

The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce will be among the many chamber branches sending a letter to federal officials regarding the rail blockades happening in Canada.

Some minor changes have been approved for leisure services rates and fees in North Battleford for 2020.

It has been announced that the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority has been named a Top Saskatchewan Employer for the third year in a row. This designation is earned though Canada’s Top 100 Employers project.

As expected, the revised severe weather procedure at Living Sky School Division came back for a further tweak at their regular board meeting on Wednesday.

Increasing literacy skills of students in the Living Sky School System was a main topic of discussion at their board meeting on Monday.

WYNYARD — Wynyard RCMP has charged 57-year-old Gerard Loehr of Ottawa with five counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual interference relating to incidents that occurred between 1990 and 1996.

By Lisa Joy, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Many inmates don’t have health cards, identification and birth certificates when they’re released from prison, according to the Office of the Correctional Investigator’s Annual Report released Feb.