Health

Hope and the Future: Progress in Northern health

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget, but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories.While the COVID-19 pandem...

Dec 23, 2020

Three deaths, 181 new cases of COVID-19 and 223 recoveries

The province has announced three people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.All three deaths were in the 80+ age group. One in the North West zone and two in the Regina zone.There are 181 new c...

Dec 22, 2020

Francophone group shares holiday cheer at Villa Pascal during COVID-19

Residents at Villa Pascal long-term care home in North Battleford received some welcome Christmas cheer Saturday morning when children from a local Francophone centre visited to celebrate the holidays...

Dec 21, 2020

Province records 206 new COVID-19 cases, four more deaths

The province has recorded four new deaths from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, along with 206 new cases, 110 of those are across all five northern regions. All four deaths were reported in the Regina zone. ...

Dec 21, 2020

LSSD announces COVID-19 cases in Unity, Cut Knife

Living Sky School Division has announced three cases of COVID-19 at schools within the division.In a release on Monday, LSSD said they were informed on December 19 by Public Health Officials of the po...

Dec 21, 2020

COVID-19 case at St. Mary School and JPII Collegiate

Light of Christ Catholic Schools is alerting the public of a positive COVID-19 case at St. Mary School in North Battleford and at John Paul II Collegiate High School. According to a media release, the...

Dec 20, 2020

Province reports three more COVID-19 deaths, 226 new cases

Saskatchewan is reporting three more people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.All three deaths reported Sunday were in the Regina zone. Two were in the 80 plus age group and one was in the 70...

Dec 20, 2020

2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under c...

Dec 20, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report

Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces.Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported.Earlier i...

Dec 19, 2020

Saskatchewan reports 252 new cases of COVID-19 and eight more deaths

Eight more people who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. The Government of Saskatchewan reported the new deaths, along with 252 new cases of the virus Saturday.Two of the deaths reported Saturday...

Dec 19, 2020