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Fire crews, volunteers battle grass fire at Buffalo Pound Lake
Dry conditions paired with a stiff breeze proved to be a bad combination Friday afternoon as a large grass fire burnt land on the north end of Buffalo Pound Lake. Carrie Mullen, a resident who helped ...
Apr 27, 2018 A grass fire threatened homes at the north end of Buffalo Pound Lake on April 27, 2018. (Carrie Mullen/Submitted)
Moose Jaw city council approves 6.4 per cent tax increase
With few cuts and several additions, Moose Jaw City gave final approval Monday night to a 6.4 per cent mill rate increase along with a nine per cent water rate increase and a six per cent sewer rate i...
Mar 13, 2018 Moose Jaw city council voted to approve the budget and a 6.4 per cent tax increase March 12, 2018. (www.DiscoverMooseJaw.com)
Moose Jaw city council backs down on major rate hikes
By Chris Rasmussen for www.discovermoosejaw.com Moose Jaw city council is holding off on passing a budget and taking another look at the books in response to a public outcry in the community over majo...
Feb 27, 2018
Riverside Mission in Moose Jaw warns of scam
by Blaise Wozniak, www.discovermoosejaw.com Workers at a shelter in Moose Jaw have discovered that someone is apparently using its name to scam cash from well-meaning residents. Director of Riverside ...
Dec 28, 2017 The director of the Riverside Mission in Moose Jaw is alerting the public to a scam using its name Dec.
27, 2017. (Discover Moose Jaw)
Moose Jaw's lost murals restored to downtown
Some of the lost treasures of Moose Jaw's heritage have been given new life. On November 1, the Moose Jaw Murals Board unveiled six murals that were lost to the city due to fires and demolitions. Moos...
Nov 03, 2017 (Murals from top to bottom, left to right) Summer Games, Moose Jaw Union Hospital, Our Ukrainian Heritage, Remember Old 80, Incorporation of the City of Moose Jaw, and River Street Red were restored to Moose Jaw's downtown Nov.
2, 2017. (Discover Moose Jaw)
Man convicted of killing Moose Jaw woman dies in Saskatoon
A man who said God told him to kill a Moose Jaw woman back in 2009, has died as an inmate at the Saskatoon Regional Psychiatric Centre. Otto Hansen, 46, pled guilty in 2011to second degree murder in t...
Oct 27, 2017 RCMP vehicle waits outside court in Moose Jaw during the trial of Otto Hansen in 2011. (DiscoverMooseJaw.com)
Moose Jaw delays expanding curbside garbage collection
Certain areas of Moose Jaw will have to wait to get curbside garbage collection until 2018. Some of that city has been put on curbside pick-up already, but on Monday night city council decided to wait...
Sep 27, 2017
Moose jaw gender, sexual diversity course receives approval
Moose Jaw is now under the spotlight after the Prairie South School Division (PSSD) was granted permission from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education to offer an accredited course on gender and sexua...
Aug 16, 2017 Central Collegiate GSA advisor Logan Petlak (l) with GSA co-founder Jayda D'Amico and Lt. Gov. Vaughn Solomon Schofield. (Discover Moose Jaw)
Backyard chicken project plucked in Moose Jaw
The idea ruffled feathers and, in the end, chickens will not be permitted in the city of Moose Jaw - at least, not right now. Council has denied a request for a pilot project that would have allowed a...
Aug 03, 2017 City council denied a pilot project for chickens Monday night (Discover Moose Jaw)
Man sentenced in Easter Sunday standoff in Moose Jaw
The man charged in an Easter Sunday incident in downtown Moose Jaw has been sentenced. Jack Raymond Keewatin, 60, was given a year behind bars Thursday morning after pleading guilty to assault with an...
Jul 14, 2017 A 60-year-old man was taken into custody by Moose Jaw police after he brandished a BB gun at the intersection of Manitoba Street West and Main Street North on April 16, 2017. (Matt Lowe/Facebook)
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