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Some health care workers can be exempted from 14-day order

Health care workers who are needed for emergency services can be exempt from following the now mandatory 14-day self-isolation order in Saskatchewan on returning from international travel. The announc...

Mar 21, 2020 (ID 175279637 © Buddhilakshan4 | Dreamstime.com)

Goudy speaks on COVID-19, provincial government spending plans

Melfort's Member of the Legislative Assembly is now responding to some of the events during the COVID-19 pandemic.Toddy Goudy called it an "unprecedented time" in the province. He said that there are ...

Mar 21, 2020 (File Photo/northeastNOW Staff)

Actor, singer, 'The Gambler': Kenny Rogers dies at 81

Actor-singer Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as "Lucille," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" and embraced his persona as "The...

Mar 21, 2020

Canada, U.S. begin turning away casual travellers at shared border

WASHINGTON - Canada's shared border with the United States is now closed to casual, non-essential travel in a bilateral effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 in North America. A mutual ban o...

Mar 20, 2020

Swimming Canada supports US after Americans call for Olympic postponement

OTTAWA - Swimming Canada says it backs its rivals from the United States when it comes to finding a solution for the Olympic Games. Early Friday, the head of USA Swimming sent a letter urging the U.S....

Mar 20, 2020

Sask. NDP leader in self-isolation

The leader of the provincial NDP, Ryan Meili, announced in a video news conference on Friday that he is in self-isolation at home.Meili said his wife, Mahli Brindamour, who is a pediatrician, woke up ...

Mar 20, 2020 Ryan Meili (YouTube)

Mass suspended at P.A. diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert is making big changes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.In a letter, Bishop Albert Thvenot announced that until further notice masses will be cancelled. Parishione...

Mar 20, 2020 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert has suspended all masses for the foreseeable future. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)

'Very, very excited': NCHCF on news of CT scanner for Melfort

The chair of the North Central Health Care Foundation (NCHCF) is thrilled the provincial government will fund a new CT Scanner in Melfort.In the government's expense budget announcement on Wednesday, ...

Mar 20, 2020 (File photo/northeastNOW Staff)

US home sales jumped to 13-year high before viral outbreak

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales jumped in February to their highest level in 13 years, a trend that will almost certainly be reversed as people stop showing their property out of fear of infection in the...

Mar 20, 2020

Fed to boost lending to $1 trillion a day to ease credit

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve moved with unprecedented force and speed Friday to pump huge amounts of cash into the financial system to ease disruptions that have escalated since the viral outbreak...

Mar 20, 2020