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The Saskatchewan Rush continue to announce player signings with two more players agreeing to contracts with the club.

Heritage Saskatchewan will once again be holding the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Heritage Awards after the Covid-19 pandemic put the 2020 Awards on hold. The Awards will be held virtually over Zoom November 2021.

The BUH Foundation has announced the purchase of a new dual chamber external pacemaker, which is now saving lives at Battlefords Union Hospital.

The Western Development Museum has announced it is welcoming back visitors for in-person programs this summer. The workshops begin June 26 and run through Aug. 29.

NIPAWIN — While the Nipawin Living Forestry Museum will be open during Canada Day, there won’t be any festivities for the second year in a row.

The family of a Mountie who was killed on duty Saturday has informed Saskatchewan RCMP a fraudulent Go-Fund-Me page has been created in the name of Constable Patton.

As a result of the investigation into the death of an Indian Head RCMP member, a man and a woman have been arrested and charged. Forty-one-year-old Alphonse Stanley Traverse, from Winnipeg, Man.

Just one per cent more of Saskatchewan adults need to get their first COVID-19 vaccine shot in the coming week in order for the province to begin Step Three - the final phase of its Reopening Roadmap - on July 11.

More than 700 kilometers north of Winnipeg sits a small community that many who have never been to may know only for its isolated location and subarctic winter temperatures.

Below is the statement from Saturday’s 5 p.m. news conference with A/Commr. Rhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer of the Saskatchewan RCMP: Tragedy unfolded early this morning for our Saskatchewan RCMP family.