Infrastructure

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

As many as 30 trades involved in new P.A. Hospital NICU project

The winning bidder on the $2 million contract for the new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Prince Albert's Victoria Hospital says it's extra special knowing the community came up with the funds ...

Nov 23, 2020

Phase one of Highway 5 construction complete for winter season

Highway 5 construction between Humboldt and Saskatoon is complete for the season and will begin again in the spring.Phase one of the multi-year project saw 10 kilometres of widening and sightline impr...

Nov 06, 2020

SaskEnergy conducting controlled flares this week

SaskEnergy has scheduled a series of controlled flares in the province's northwest area as part of scheduled maintenance work on its transmission system.The first flare will occur Oct. 13 from 4 a.m. ...

Oct 13, 2020

Rebuild underway at Bloomfield's Resort that was destroyed by fire last year

After a devastating fire last December, the rebuild of Bloomfield's Bay Resort at Deschambault Lake is underway.Owner Gary Bloomfield told northeastNOW the rebuild will include the restaurant and stor...

Oct 06, 2020

SaskEnergy conducting controlled flares near Wakaw and St. Louis

SaskEnergy is set to do a pair of controlled natural gas flares in the area on Tuesday, Sept. 22.Between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m., at the SaskEnergy compressor station near St. Louis and at a point on the n...

Sep 21, 2020

Nanaimo SPCA’s latest addition could help save more livestock on the Island

NANAIMO, B.C. - Construction is underway for a new stable on the property of the Nanaimo and District SPCA. The $600,000 project will help the Nanaimo location take in horses, cows and other farm anim...

Kyle Ireland Sep 21, 2020

Greenwater Lake Provincial Park set to get paving facelift

The Government of Saskatchewan announced on Thursday, Sept. 17 that over 100 kilometres of roads in and around provincial parks would be paved in 2021.It's all part of the government's two-year, $7.5 ...

Sep 18, 2020

City of Melfort allocates 2019 surpluses

Melfort council approved the allocation of the city's 2019 surplus funds at its meeting last night. Mayor Rick Lang told northeastNOW that most of the time, the surplus allocation is essentially prede...

Sep 15, 2020

Melfort MLA talks MEEP funding at Monday press conference

Melfort MLA Todd Goudy held a press conference at the Melfort Hospital on Monday, Sept. 14 to talk about the Municipal Economic Enhancement Program (MEEP) funding that has come to the City of Melfort,...

Sep 14, 2020