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Hope and Future: Melfort MLA says 'good days are coming'

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget. While we're not out of the woods yet, northeastNOW has chosen to produce our usual series of end-of-year stories with a focus on hope...

Jan 01, 2021

NDP calls for minister's resignation over California trip; Hargrave apologizes

Calling his trip to California "disgusting", the opposition New Democrats have called for the resignation of Saskatchewan Minister of Highways and Prince Albert Carlton MLA Joe Hargrave. Meanwhile, Ha...

Dec 31, 2020

Province tells public to keep New Year celebrations small, records 190 new COVID-19 cases

The province is urging the public to stay safe this New Year's Eve by celebrating with only your household and making virtual connections instead of in-person ones. The provincial government issued th...

Dec 31, 2020

Lloydminster nurses share world junior 50/50 jackpot

After a long stressful year on the frontlines battling COVID-19, a group of nurses in Lloydminster is ending 2020 on a high note.The eight women from the maternity unit are sharing $241,850 after winn...

Dec 31, 2020

'After a week we thought gosh she's gonna make it': 106-year-old Prince Albert woman beats COVID-19

In her lifetime, Prince Albert's Rubena Wenzel has lived through world wars and now survived two pandemics, the Spanish flu in 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020.Roughly two and a half weeks after her initial ...

Dec 31, 2020

Saskatchewan government backs battery recycling program

The Government of Saskatchewan has approved a program that can recycle all of those batteries that have died in the toys kids got for Christmas.In a media release Wednesday, the government announced i...

Dec 30, 2020

Hope and the Future: Local businesses gear up for a new year

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories.Local businesses were nega...

Dec 30, 2020

Seventy-year-old aircraft to be reinvented as roadside landmark

A Prince Albert area pilot has just bought his thirteenth aircraft, but he has no plans to fly it. Instead, the 2,000-pound plane will be hoisted 30 to 40 feet in the air and mounted on a pole overloo...

Dec 29, 2020

Melfort Fire responds to Christmas Day house fire

Melfort Fire and Rescue responded to a house fire on Christmas Day.Crews were called to the home on Whitley Street shortly before 9 p.m. where smoke was seen coming from the basement.Fire Chief Shaun ...

Dec 29, 2020

Hope and Future: Melfort Mayor looking forward to vaccines and funding for infrastructure in 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic makes 2020 a year many may prefer to forget but there is hope for the future. We've decided to make that the focus of our series of end-of-year stories. Melfort Mayor Glenn Georg...

Dec 29, 2020