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Local business offering free oil changes to frontline healthcare workers and first responders

A local business is doing what they can to help out frontline healthcare workers and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic.Bridges Chevrolet Buick GMC in North Battleford is offering free full...

Apr 08, 2020 Spencer Wasmuth working on a healthcare worker's vehicle. (Supplied photo/Duane LaFreniere)

Province releases planning scenarios for COVID-19, prepares for 153,000 to 408,000 cases

They are not predictions or expectations, but the province has released three 'what if' scenarios to assess the potential impact of COVID-19 transmission on Saskatchewan's health care system.These sce...

Apr 08, 2020

How to try to avoid cross contamination – advice from RUH’s head of clinical microbiology

What COVID-19 has taught everybody is that the virus is invisible - you can't see it - but it can be present in an individual or on a surface, and your hands can be the vector which transmits it, and ...

Apr 08, 2020 Masks and gloves available to the public. Lara Fominoff/CKOM

SaskCyberParks: Get Outdoors!

Create your own Nature Journal to help you explore your backyard or your neighborhood! Grab some scrap paper and use the example shown here to draw your own Nature Data Sheet.Next, explore your backya...

Apr 08, 2020

89-year-old Riders super fan in isolation ‘floored’ with birthday wishes

After being isolated for more than three weeks, lifelong Saskatchewan Roughriders fan Ethel Mongovius wasn't sure how her 89th birthday would go.But through the power of social media, her birthday on ...

Apr 07, 2020 Ethel Mongovius received quite the surprise on her 89th birthday, with an Upper Deck card tweeted out by the company on April 6, 2020. (Twitter/Upper Deck)

Advocate encourages support for organ donation campaign

Cheryl Olson owes her life to organ donation.If two individuals had not donated their organs before they died, she would not be alive today. "[Organ donation] has saved my life twice now," the North B...

Apr 07, 2020 Heart-transplant recipient Cheryl Olson shows her support for the Green Shirt Day campaign to benefit organ donation, and honour the memory of Logan Boulet. (Submitted photo/Cheryl Olson)

Landlords working with renters on payment options

Weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and property owners are ramping up their efforts to work with renters as they face the incoming challenge of late payments.Last week marked the due date of...

Apr 07, 2020 Tenants facing financial struggles as a result of COVID-19 will have a number of options from their landlords for rent payments moving forward. (Josh Ryan/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Helping kids stay active at home

With mandatory self-isolation still in effect for households throughout the nation and a recent snowfall over the Battlefords, it can be easy to stay stagnant while cooped up at home. Superintendent o...

Apr 07, 2020 The best way to encourage children and youth to stay active at home is by getting involved in physical activity alongside them. (ID 177825575 © Sam Wordley | Dreamstime.com)

Northern health centres need help on PPE shortages

Health centres offering service to the 33 communities that make up the Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) are sounding the alarm bell about shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE)...

Apr 07, 2020 The William Charles Health Centre at Montreal Lake is one of 28 facilities in NITHA. (submitted photo)

Seven more cases of COVID-19 reported, seven in hospital

On Tuesday, April 7 there are seven new cases of COVID-19 with seven in hospital and seven recoveries.The latest numbers bring the confirmed case total in the province to 260. There are 169 active cas...

Apr 07, 2020 Premier Scott Moe. (File photo)