Tag Archives: Health
'What we ask is for people to stay home': active COVID cases at Hatchet Lake surpasses 100
Editor's note: This story was amended at 8 p.m. Tuesday to include a statement from PAGC.The Chief of Hatchet Lake Denesuline First Nation says every effort is being taken to control the spread of COV...
Jul 06, 2021
Half a million Saskatchewan residents now fully vaccinated
After an additional 7,393 second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were reported in the province today, the Saskatchewan government is reporting over half a million Saskatchewan residents are now fully va...
Jul 06, 2021
Northern community dealing with COVID-19 outbreak, Delta variant
As many Saskatchewan communities watch their COVID-19 case numbers drop, the Hatchet Lake Dene Nation - including Wollaston Lake - is dealing with a fast-moving outbreak.The outbreak was declared June...
Jul 05, 2021
'Figure of hope' praised for role in COVID-19 fight after death
MONTREAL - A Quebec woman who was the first person in Canada to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has died. Gisele Lvesque, 89, died on June 28 peacefully of natural causes, surrounded by family, according t...
Jul 04, 2021
Heatwave presents challenges for SaskPower
A spokesperson for SaskPower is confirming that a number of power outages across the Prince Albert region this week have been indirectly caused by the scorching hot weather.Customers in the Canwood, A...
Jul 02, 2021
Twenty-one new cases of COVID-19 reported in the province
The province is reporting an additional 21 new cases and 36 recoveries from COVID-19 in Saskatchewan on July 2. This includes only eight new cases in the province's northern zones.This brings the prov...
Jul 02, 2021
Ministry of Health no longer releasing COVID updates on weekends and holidays
As COVID numbers continue to trend downwards in Saskatchewan, the province is taking a break from reporting daily statistics.Starting Thursday, the Ministry of Health will no longer issue a COVID upda...
Jul 01, 2021
Committee established to discuss new pool for Shellbrook
Discussions surrounding a new pool in Shellbrook, have come to the surface.A committee has been formed and had its first meeting earlier this month. Co-chair Kathleen Nording, who is also a town counc...
Jul 01, 2021
Prince Albert woman goes extra length to help friend in need
Prince Albert's Janine Robin says she was shocked when she learned last month a close friend and co-worker at Pine Grove Correctional Centre had been diagnosed with colon cancer.That was the reason wh...
Jun 30, 2021
52 new COVID-19 cases reported, two new deaths
There are 52 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Tuesday, bringing the provincial total to 48,823 cases. And as the government urged the public to get both jabs there was another all to...
Jun 29, 2021
