Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
Leask school placed on 'hold and secure'
UPDATE: A hold and secure procedure at Leask Community School has been lifted following an incident at the school early Wednesday morning. An unknown male wandered into the elementary side of the scho...
Dec 18, 2019 (Facebook/ Leask Community School)
Highway Patrol officers to get new body armour
Saskatchewan Highway Patrol officers are getting upgraded body armour.A request for bids is out to replace their current bulletproof vests, as well as buy new armour plates that can withstand high pow...
Dec 17, 2019 (File photo/CJME staff)
SUV drives through P.A. apartment building
There was a close call Tuesday morning for a Prince Albert woman and her family at the Carlton Park Suites.Around 11:30 a.m., an SUV attempted to drive through one of the building's walls. April Lavio...
Dec 17, 2019 (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Graffiti bandits nabbed by police
Five people are facing 20 counts each of mischief in connection with several incidents last week when numerous properties in Prince Albert were graffitied.Police responded to multiple complaints of gr...
Dec 16, 2019 This property in the 1100 block of 18th St. W was one of several addresses vandalized last week. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
‘You were everything to me’: Kindersley family, community grieve after separated couple murder-suicide
A woman who was killed in a murder-suicide in Kindersley on Thursday is being remembered as a loving mother, grandmother and co-worker by family and the larger community.Elsie Gartner, 64, a health wo...
Dec 13, 2019 Elsie Gartner is seen in a photo dated 2014. (Elsie Gartner/Facebook)
Widow sues child and family services agency for wrongful death
Cora Laich, who's husband Simon Grant was murdered in La Ronge in April 2017, is suing the Lac La Ronge Indian Band Child and Family Services Agency Inc. for wrongful death caused by negligence.A stat...
Dec 13, 2019 Cora Laich and her late husband Simon Grant. (Submitted photo/Cora Laich)
Saskatchewan residents to see power bills rise; SaskPower warns about phone scam
Saskatchewan residents will be paying more for power in the new year.The carbon tax is set to increase Jan. 1 from $20 a tonne to $30. SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cherry explained what the increase wi...
Dec 13, 2019 The Crown-owned power company says bills are set to climb and warning residents about a phone scam. (File Photo/paNOW Staff)
UPDATE: Two found dead at Kindersley home following police standoff
Two people are dead following a long police standoff at a Kindersley home.According to a release from Saskatchewan RCMP, a man and a woman were located deceased in the home around 3 p.m.No other peopl...
Dec 13, 2019 Kindersley RCMP respond to report of a gunshot at a home on 1st Street West on Thursday, December 12, 2019. (submitted/Jenny Hagan)
Taxi drivers feel unsafe as suspect still at large
As Prince Albert police continue their investigation into a string of recent taxi robberies, some cab drivers in the city say they feel unsafe. They are also unhappy they have not been shown an image ...
Dec 12, 2019 (File photo/Alison Sandstrom)
"I'm gonna kill you and your kids": police investigate home invasion
A woman who was attacked in her home Monday night, while her three young children stood nearby, claims she has no idea why a stranger came to her door.Reina Morin, 29, was still quite shaken when she ...
Dec 11, 2019 (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
