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MELFORT — A lawyer who served as the crown prosecutor in the trial against the man responsible for the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, has been appointed as a provincial judge.

UPDATE: Marcus Lafond has been found safe and sound HERITAGE LAKE — Smeaton RCMP are asking for the public's help to locate 13-year-old Marcus Lafond. On Aug. 4, Lafond was at Heritage Lake with a group of other youths.

UPDATE: Clarice Reynolds has been found safe and sound. CANDLE LAKE — Smeaton RCMP are asking for the public's help to locate a 13-year old girl that went missing from the Sandy Bay Campground at Candle Lake.

Submitted The Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum and the Shiloh Baptist Church and Cemetery Restoration Society celebrated a little known part of Saskatchewan history at an event Saturday, Aug. 3.

Northern Saskatchewan have just finished first in the type of competition no region wants to win.

As the search for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmeglsky continues,RCMP are able to provide the following update. On Friday afternoon, RCMP officers searching from a helicopter, located a damaged aluminum boat on the shore of the Nelson River.

Boat was in lower Limestone rapids, about 13 kilometres from burned car driven by B.C. homicide suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky that was found July 22

The RCMP have announced that to assist in the ongoing search for the two suspects wanted in connection to homicides in British Columbia, the Manitoba RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team (URT) will be arriving in Gillam tonight - Saturday, Aug. 3.

CNW - The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is warning the public about ongoing email, text messages or telephone scams in which people posing as officials from the CBSA are asking for personal information, including Social Insurance Number (SIN).

Hunger doesn’t take a summer holiday, the food bank’s Erin Katerynych said. The Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre, located at 1171 – 101st St.