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UFC relying on hefty health and safety blueprint for trio of Florida shows
The UFC returns to action Saturday after a two-month absence with the first of three shows in Jacksonville, Fla. - working off a hefty health, safety and operations manual in the face of COVID-19...
May 07, 2020

Air Ronge Co-op C-Store closed after employee shows signs of COVID-19
Lake Country Co-op has released an official statement about the closure of the Air Ronge C-Store. The convenience store closed Wednesday at approximately 5 p.m. According to the statement, on the same...
May 07, 2020 There is no timeline on when the store will reopen. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

AP Exclusive: Justice Dept dropping Flynn's criminal case
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that bec...
May 07, 2020

Saskatchewan wildfires expected to be 'fairly active this year'
While the wildfire season is off to a slow start in the province, it could soon heat up.A spokesperson with Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency is warning the conditions for the next two months are prim...
May 07, 2020 (File photo/Government of Saskatchewan)

Watchdogs warn COVID-19 apps come with privacy risks to Canadians
OTTAWA - Privacy commissioners from across the country are warning of potential risks associated with government COVID-19 apps used to trace the movements of Canadians. Some provinces have already int...
May 07, 2020

Testing practices and staffing levels big concerns for SUN in northern Saskatchewan
Many nurses working in northern Saskatchewan are extremely concerned right now. With a large COVID-19 outbreak declared in La Loche, and other outbreaks in hospitals in Lloydminster, Meadow Lake and P...
May 07, 2020 Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) president Tracy Zambory at Prairieland Park in Saskatoon on April 9, 2019. (650 CKOM)

Feds to partly cover 'top ups' for front-line workers on minimum wage
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government, provinces and territories will spend $4 billion to increase the wages of essential workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. He says th...
May 07, 2020

Trudeau says he does not share view that oil and gas sector is beyond saving
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not agree that oil and gas in Canada is dead. Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and Green parliamentary leader Elizabeth May both claim t...
May 07, 2020

Saskatchewan Health Authority Service Resumption Plan Released
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) will be initiating a phased resumption of health care services on May 19, 2020. This process will start to reverse some of the service changes and reductions th...
May 07, 2020

Moe says fall election will happen under the ‘new normal’
Predicting what's going to happen just a couple of weeks from now can be difficult, let alone what might happen in six months due to COVID-19.But planning still is underway for the fall provincial ele...
May 07, 2020 (CJME News Staff)