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Taking Care Of Your Mental Health During The Pandemic

Mental health services and supports are readily available to Saskatchewan residents who need them during the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent spending estimates, the Ministry of Health is investing $435 m...

Apr 09, 2020

La Ronge man taken by COVID-19 remembered as great father, outdoorsman

Ron Mackay's family doesn't want him to be remembered for the way he was taken from this world, but for the way he lived in it and the way he loved it.The 85-year-old former owner of Red's Camps in La...

Apr 08, 2020 Ron Mackay is pictured here at Red's Camps in La Ronge, Sask. (Lisa Saelhof/Submitted)

Province releases planning scenarios for COVID-19, prepares for 153,000 to 408,000 cases

They are not predictions or expectations, but the province has released three 'what if' scenarios to assess the potential impact of COVID-19 transmission on Saskatchewan's health care system.These sce...

Apr 08, 2020

Kerry Vickar Centre online art exhibit open for submissions

The Kerry Vickar Centre in Melfort is inviting all art forms for their online art exhibit.The idea follows the lead of the elementary school exhibit that would typically be happening at this time."It ...

Apr 08, 2020 "The Posting of Fall' by Gary Forsyth. (Facebook/Kerry Vickar Centre)

How to try to avoid cross contamination – advice from RUH’s head of clinical microbiology

What COVID-19 has taught everybody is that the virus is invisible - you can't see it - but it can be present in an individual or on a surface, and your hands can be the vector which transmits it, and ...

Apr 08, 2020 Masks and gloves available to the public. Lara Fominoff/CKOM

SaskCyberParks: Get Outdoors!

Create your own Nature Journal to help you explore your backyard or your neighborhood! Grab some scrap paper and use the example shown here to draw your own Nature Data Sheet.Next, explore your backya...

Apr 08, 2020

Now You Have Time To Create Entries for the Melfort Fair

HEY are you looking for something to do while you are at home?? We've got a great idea for you. Every year at fair time I hear from parents that they wished they would have put together more school st...

Apr 08, 2020

Buy From Local Farmers Delivering to City

Easter is just about here and it will certainly be different from last year. Fortunately, we can still gather family together electronically and enjoy all the baking we have had time to do. The Prince...

Apr 08, 2020

89-year-old Riders super fan in isolation ‘floored’ with birthday wishes

After being isolated for more than three weeks, lifelong Saskatchewan Roughriders fan Ethel Mongovius wasn't sure how her 89th birthday would go.But through the power of social media, her birthday on ...

Apr 07, 2020 Ethel Mongovius received quite the surprise on her 89th birthday, with an Upper Deck card tweeted out by the company on April 6, 2020. (Twitter/Upper Deck)

Nipawin Region Hospital Foundation raising money for video laryngoscope

The Nipawin Region Health Foundation (NRHF) is raising money for some important medical equipment.NRHF Executive Director Lewis Robin told northeastNOW they were approached by the facility administrat...

Apr 07, 2020 (File photo/northeastNOW Staff)