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Although most of the mall is a ghost town, the Service Canada office at the Market Mall continuously has more than 25 people lined up out the door waiting to get their Employment Insurance (EI) starte...

Alberta has recorded its first death from COVID-19. Chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the man who died was in his 60s and had underlying health conditions. She says it appears he contracted...

As concern grows over COVID-19, a Saskatchewan union is raising concern about the virus spreading into provincial jails and detention centres. "Overcrowded facilities housing vulnerable populations ar...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) has made several improvements to the province’s main health line phone service after complaints about dropped calls, inability to connect and long wait ti...

British Columbia’s Solicitor General Mike Farnworth is declaring a state of emergency in British Columbia. The move follows yesterday’s declaration of a public health emergency in the same...

Although the province will pay full-time support staff at Saskatchewan schools once the classrooms are shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty remains for those working part-time, or casua...

On Monday afternoon the president of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, Patrick Maze, held a press conference to answer questions about the government’s decision to suspend all classes...

All Western Development Museum (WDM) locations in Moose Jaw, North Battleford, Saskatoon and Yorkton will be closed to the public starting Tues. March 17 due to the COVID-19 virus. WDM CEO, Joan Kanig...

Saskatchewan Polytechnic is cancelling all classes and programming for the rest of the week, and will move to online learning starting March 23. In a release Monday afternoon, Sask. Polytechnic presid...

The Saskatoon Blades are sending players home amid the uncertainty surrounding the spread of COVID-19. A team release on Sunday said a decision was reached to send players home to their families immed...