Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

SaskTel waives data overage fees for those impacted by fires
In response to the wildfire situation charring Saskatchewan’s north, SaskTel has announced that it will extend the supports announced on Monday to all impacted customers. To ensure that resident...
Keira Miller Jun 03, 2025

Scooter-robbing female arrested and charged in Prince Albert
A 25-year-old woman was arrested and has been charged following the robbery of a scooter from a child in Prince Albert Monday. According to a news release from the Prince Albert Police Service, office...
Les Lazaruk Jun 03, 2025

53 patients and residents from La Ronge area evacuated to 19 facilities across province
Derek Miller, Chief Operating Officer for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, confirmed today of the safe evacuation of 53 patients and residents from the La Ronge Health Centre and care homes in the c...
Lisa Denby Jun 03, 2025

Public assistance requested with locating female youth
Battlefords RCMP are seeking the public’s help with finding a female youth who was last seen last Thursday. According to a Saskatchewan RCMP news release, 14-year-old Azariah Desjarlais (picture...
Les Lazaruk Jun 03, 2025

Provincial Auditor concerned over transition house funding, monitoring of independent schools, and opioid addiction treatment
The Provincial Auditor has included some concerns about funding imbalances in her 2025 report, released Tuesday. Tara Clemett says she found that funding levels at transition houses for survivors of i...
Keira Miller Jun 03, 2025

Carla Beck shuffles her shadow cabinet
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck has announced a change up to her Shadow Cabinet. The changes include naming Associate Ministers and Deputy Leader Vicki Mowat has been tasked with new community outr...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jun 03, 2025

Evacuation of patients and care home residents from La Ronge now complete
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says it has completed the safe evacuation of 49 acute care patients and residents from the La Ronge Health Centre and care homes. There was mandatory evacuation...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jun 03, 2025

Federal Government announces the First-Time Home Buyer GST Rebate for new homes
First-time home buyers will now be supported with the “First-Time Home Buyer (FTHB) GST Rebate”. New homes priced at, or below, $1 million will have the GST removed, and for homes valued b...
Lisa Denby Jun 03, 2025

Long night for evacuees trying to escape wildfire near La Ronge
The situation escalated rapidly in Saskatchewan Monday night after a wildfire, fed by wind gusts to 80 kilometres an hour, breached the La Ronge airport forcing the evacuation of La Ronge, Air Ronge, ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jun 03, 2025

Saskatoon committee to vote on flood control, corporate environmental leadership program
Saskatoon’s Committee on Environment, Utilities, and Corporate Services will be voting on commencing two flood control projects on Tuesday. In December of 2018, City Council approved the nine-ye...
Keira Miller Jun 02, 2025














