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City of Melfort updates public on services available amid COVID-19 pandemic
The City of Melfort continues to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.Yesterday, administrators announced the closure of all city-owned facilities, including the Northern Lights Palace, City H...
Mar 17, 2020 (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)
Commons likely to sit again to pass economic response to COVID-19, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - A sweeping federal economic stimulus package to combat the shock of COVID-19 is now to be unveiled Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, and could soon be before an emergency sitting...
Mar 17, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
Saskatchewan records an eighth case of COVID-19
There is an eighth COVID-19 case in Saskatchewan.It is a person who travelled to a dental conference in Vancouver, much like one of the Regina cases.One of the eight cases has been hospitalized, but e...
Mar 17, 2020 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
Wapiti Regional Library COVID-19 (CORONA VIRUS) NOTIFICATION
Wapiti Regional Library is committed to a calm, measured response to the arrival of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan and is working with our Provincial Government and municipal partners in response to unfoldi...
Mar 17, 2020
Russian author, political activist Limonov dies at 77
MOSCOW - Eduard Limonov, a Russian author and political activist known for his poignant and controversial writings, died on Tuesday. He was 77. Limonov's death was announced by the Other Russia politi...
Mar 17, 2020
Esper: Pentagon to give respirator masks, ventilators to HHS
WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that the Pentagon will provide 5 million respirator masks and 2,000 specialized ventilators to federal heath authorities to help in the response ...
Mar 17, 2020
Government to release scaled-back budget Wednesday
The provincial government is changing its plans for the 2020 budget.The budget still will be released Wednesday as scheduled, but it will include only budget estimates for 2020-21 - the government's s...
Mar 17, 2020 Saskatchewan Finance Minister Donna Harpauer. (File photo by Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
'We'll take it as a successful year': Mustangs season comes to halt amid COVID-19 concerns
The Melfort Mustangs ended with a win, but it didn't end with a Canalta Cup Championship in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL).The reason being the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc...
Mar 17, 2020 The Melfort Mustangs celebrate their game four win over Estevan. It would be their last game of the season. (Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)
Manchester bomber's brother convicted of 22 counts of murder
LONDON - The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, was convicted Tuesday of murder for helping to plan the attack. A jury at Lo...
Mar 17, 2020
Auto workers union presses companies to close US factories
DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union wants Detroit's three automakers to shut down their factories for two weeks to keep its members safe from the spreading coronavirus. But union President Rory Ga...
Mar 17, 2020