Health

Living Sky students must comply with masking protocols as required for school start-up

Students will need to be compliant to masking protocols for everyone's safety as they return to schools in the Living Sky School Division.Director of Education Brenda Vickers and Board Chair Ronna Pet...

Aug 31, 2021

Northern Saskatchewan reporting half of new COVID-19 cases in the province

The province is reporting another 274 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, including 141 in the northern zones of Saskatchewan.This brings the total to 54,367 reported cases; 2,204 cases considered ...

Aug 31, 2021

Moe says unvaccinated will find things ‘more uncomfortable’ in Sask.

Premier Scott Moe issued a warning Monday to residents of the province who aren't vaccinated against COVID-19."It's going to be increasingly more uncomfortable for you in Saskatchewan to make the choi...

Aug 30, 2021

Total active COVID cases in Northern Sask. nearing 1,000, 199 new cases reported in province

The province is reporting another 199 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, including 93 new cases in northern zones of Saskatchewan.This brings the total to 54,076 reported cases; 2,068 cases consid...

Aug 30, 2021

Mask protocols to be in place for Living Sky, Light of Christ school divisions for back to school plans

Students in two of the local school divisions will head back to class following COVID-19 precautions, as part of Living Sky School Division's and Light of Christ Catholic School Division's plans, anno...

Aug 27, 2021

Premier not wavering on health measures, mandatory vaccines

Premier Scott Moe isn't discussing the reintroduction of any public health measures or vaccine mandates with the highly infectious Delta variant bringing a new wave of COVID-19 infections to Saskatche...

Aug 27, 2021

Shahab encourages mask use, vaccination requirements as COVID cases rise

After nine straight days of new COVID cases exceeding over 100 per day, Saskatchewan's chief medical officer Dr. Saqib Shahab says that indoor mask use as well as limiting non-essential services to pe...

Aug 27, 2021

Saskatchewan Cancer Agency first in Canada to use new treatment

The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency (SCA) celebrated a milestone earlier in August when they used a new form of treatment for metastatic brain cancer. This was the first time a patient had undergone the ne...

Aug 27, 2021

Are Hot Dogs Doing Joey Chestnut Dirty?

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! BION of the Week Ripley's is constantly on the hunt to find the strangest Believe It or Not! stories, or BIONs, to share with our fellow fans of the bizarr...

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Aug 27, 2021

Health minister speaks on fourth wave, vaccines, public health measures

The Saskatchewan health minister wants to emphasize one major point: people in the province need to get vaccinated."I can't emphasize this enough. We have over 500,000 vaccines in our province right n...

Aug 25, 2021