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NIPAWIN — The Boreal Area Regional Waste Authority Inc. (BARWA) landfill is back to normal operations two days after a fire ignited in one of its cells. The cause of the fire, which began on June 15, is not known at this time.

NIPAWIN — Shirley Phillips says she is "shocked" to see a Nipawin bridge spanning decades of local history indefinitely closed to traffic.

Reducing Lloydminster Provincial Court to a circuit point is a step backwards, says a Lloydminster lawyer and secretary-treasurer of the Battlefords Bar Association.

Warning: Some may find details disturbing Saskatchewan’s highest court shot down the appeal of Native Syndicate gang members convicted for the beating death of 54-year-old Shawn Roderick Douglas.

From the SHA: As of June 16, there are more than 3,500 first dose immunization appointments available in Saskatoon and area.

The province has reported a single death in the Central East zone. Provincial health officials said June 15 the person was in the 70 to 79 age group. The Central East zone includes Humboldt, Yorkton and Melville.

HUMBOLDT — A fundraising effort for a $20,000 surgical microscope used to insert tubes into the ears of child patients has been launched by the Humboldt District Hospital Foundation.

Canadian dollars were the "dirtiest and most dangerous currency in the world."

There are a number of places listed on the government’s Saskatchewan Dashboard as being sites of COVID-19 outbreaks in the North West zone. The latest to be added are Leoville Central School (Gr. 5/6, 9/10, 12 and Paulton Bus Route) and St.

Two news deaths were reported Wednesday in the provincial government’s daily COVID-19 report. One death was reported in the 80+ age group from the North West Zone and one death was reported in the 70 to 79 age group from the Central East zone.