Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Seventy-year-old man faces multiple drug and weapons charges
La Ronge RCMP report an arrest was made following a traffic stop on Jimmy Roberts Road in Bell’s Point on Friday, November 4th. Officers observed cannabis in plain view. A further search also fo...
Neil Billinger Nov 14, 2022

La Ronge drug and weapons charges
An early morning vehicle check by La Ronge RCMP on Sunday, November 6th resulted in multiple charges against a man and a woman. Officers stopped to check a vehicle that was blocking Highway #2 around ...
Neil Billinger Nov 14, 2022

Teamwork leads to arrest
The Saskatchewan RCMP reports that a 31-year-old man who had been the subject of a province-wide warrant has been arrested and charged with attempted murder. Officers with the Regina Police Service re...
Carol Thomson Nov 14, 2022

RCMP looking for man in connection with an assault on James Smith Cree Nation
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 39-year-old Darcel Burns of the James Smith Cree Nation. Burns is charged with one count of using an imitation firearm to commit an offense, one count of as...
Neil Billinger Nov 14, 2022

Amended legislation introduced by provincial government designed to improve welfare services for children
The provincial government is looking at three main areas of change as they introduced The Child and Family Services Amendment Act 2022 Monday in the Legislature. Those three areas are… — R...
Les Lazaruk Nov 14, 2022

NDP calls for more affordability measures
The debate that started off Monday’s Question Period in the Legislature was around affordability, with the Official Opposition stating that there has been a 37 per cent increase in food bank usa...
Carol Thomson Nov 14, 2022

Covid 19 in wastewater sees a dramatic jump in Saskatoon
There has been a startling spike in SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA load in Saskatoon’s wastewater. It has increased 461.8 per cent in the latest reporting period. Last week the viral load was considered l...
Vanese M. Ferguson Nov 14, 2022

Animal abuse or neglect can be a sign of senior abuse
The executive director of Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism says statistics from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s found that around four to six per cent of older adults experience abuse, and on...
Carol Thomson Nov 14, 2022

Finding better ways to predict instability of riverbank slopes
The goal of a USask research project is to improve the ability to predict regions of slope instability on riverbanks. Master’s student, Mark Lepitzki explains that right now you have to drill or...
Carol Thomson Nov 14, 2022

Mental health buses getting up and running in Saskatoon
Synergy 8 Community Builders proposed, in its Drive For Kids Campaign, that two mental health buses were needed to service the seven First Nation communities around Saskatoon and a large portion of th...
Vanese M. Ferguson Nov 14, 2022
















