Health

UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China

BEIJING - The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of c...

Jan 30, 2020 (File photo/Associated Press)

Drinking water advisory, care home restriction in Wadena

A precautionary drinking water advisory is in effect in Wadena.According to the town's website, the advisory is due to a well pump failure. That has led to a restriction of water being treated and ele...

Jan 30, 2020 (file photo/northeastNOW Staff)

'We don't have to use as much medication': adopted cat a positive influence for Parkland Place

A six-week-old stray kitten arrived on Parkland Place's memory care house patio in September 2017.Residents began feeding and interacting with the kitten before eventually welcoming him into the house...

Lisa Brady Jan 29, 2020 Patches has helped Parkland Place memory care house residents with behavioural outbursts and memory loss issues during his two-plus year stay. (submitted photo/Jacquie Sundelin).

Local organization talks mental health

The topic of mental health is front and center across the country today.Bell Lets Talk Day aims to get people talking about mental health while also raising money to support initiatives.Members of one...

Jan 29, 2020 Lyle Karasiuk said they are focused on mental health all the way through the organization. (submitted photo/Lyle Karasiuk)

P.A. Ag dealer gets behind Rose Garden Hospice

Redhead Equipment is the latest business to get behind the Rose Garden Hospice.On Tuesday morning at the company's offices southwest of the city, a $20,000 contribution was announced in front of a cro...

Jan 29, 2020 Redhead Equipment made the $20,000 donation Tuesday at their offices. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)

Hospital gets donation to help kids

The Victoria Hospital Foundation received a unique kind of donation Monday morning.Mann Northway GMC donated two toy battery powered vehicles to the hospital. The dealership's general manager Mark Rip...

Jan 27, 2020 The toy vehicles were unveiled Monday morning at the Victoria Hospital. (submitted photo/Victoria Hospital Foundation)

Billboard pleas: Alberta man hopes sign will find him a kidney donor

CARBON, Alta. - The large billboard overlooking the town of Drumheller in east-central Alberta is hard to miss. Next to a photo of a smiling man in a blue shirt, his arms crossed, the sign reads:...

Jan 27, 2020

Ontario confirms second coronavirus case, wife of first case

TORONTO - Public health officials in Ontario are reporting a second presumptive case of the new coronavirus.They said the wife of the man who became the first case of the illness in Canada has also te...

Jan 27, 2020

Coronavirus patient showed mild symptoms on flight

OTTAWA - The first Canadian patient diagnosed with a novel form of coronavirus began showing signs of illness on the plane that brought him back from the disease's epicentre., Canada's Chief Public He...

Jan 26, 2020

Coronavirus patient showed mild symptoms on flight

OTTAWA - The first Canadian patient diagnosed with a novel form of coronavirus began showing signs of illness on the plane that brought him back from the disease's epicentre., Canada's Chief Public He...

Jan 26, 2020