Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Transit Changes in Prince Albert Begin
Starting Wednesday, the Prince Albert Transit service will be reduced. Buses will start their routes one hour later at 7:45am. The Rush Hour route will be shut down temporarily. The city says this is ...
Gord Wiebe Apr 29, 2020

Municipalities in Saskatchewan Dealing with the Economic Fallout of COVID-19
The challenge for municipalities, just like for many individuals, is trying to stay safe while finding ways to make ends meet. President of Municipalities of Saskatchewan, Gordon Barnhart, says from t...
Carol Thomson Apr 29, 2020

UPDATE: Grass Fire Northwest Of Saskatoon
Around 10:20 Tuesday night, The Saskatoon Fire Department announced that they had finished fighting a grass fire near Highway 16 north and Range Road 3062. They were first called to it around 2:30 tha...
Gord Wiebe Apr 28, 2020

Data Verifies Saskatchewan Flattening The Curve, Fewer Beds Needed
The Saskatchewan Health Authority’s CEO is optimistic about the data coming in for this province on flattening the curve. Scott Livingstone says the proof is in the numbers and new calculations ...
Carol Thomson Apr 28, 2020

Woman Armed With Needles in Prince Albert
Prince Albert Police were called out to the 800 block of 15th Street East on Tuesday morning after receiving a report that a woman was behaving in a threatening manner. Police say they used a conducte...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 28, 2020

RCMP Say Alleged Shooting Incident is Drug Motivated
Battlefords RCMP didn’t find any suspects when they arrived on scene at the report of a shooting at a local hotel located in the 1-thousand block of the Highway 16 overpass, but say they reviewe...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 28, 2020

Weapons, Stolen ID and Open Booze
Two men have racked up more than 45 charges after Saskatoon City Police responded to a report of suspicious activity on the 21 hundred block of St. Andrews Avenue. About 7:40 Monday night, officers we...
Gord Wiebe Apr 28, 2020

Prime Minister Says Delivering Guidelines to Reopen Soon
Prime Minister Discusses Personal Protective Equipment The Prime Minister says personal protective equipment is key, in addition to physical distancing, to keeping people safe. In his daily COVID-19 b...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 28, 2020

River Rescue Called Out Tuesday Morning
If you saw what looked like a river rescue taking place just after 9 this morning at River Landing, it was not a body. A concerned citizen reported an abnormality in the South Saskatchewan River ̵...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 28, 2020

More COVID Deaths Than Predicted Because Of Care Home Outbreaks
Canada’s COVID-19 modelling projections from April 9th didn’t take into consideration the large number of outbreaks in long term care homes, so the number of deaths was under-predicted. Th...
Carol Thomson Apr 28, 2020














