Tag Archives: Fire

A major fire has destroyed a business in downtown North Battleford. The Bargain Shop on 101st Street near city hall is mostly rubble on Thursday morning. The fire department was called around 4:30 a.m...

Driving his boat around the edges of Weyakwin Lake, Doug Hrycuik said he feels very lucky that there wasn't a slight wind shift because it would have taken out the little cottage community he calls ho...

Depending on which way the wind blew the scene around the La Ronge regional airport shifted from a wall of smoke to crowning flames as the Eli and Egg fires converged in.Among the airport personnel st...

Some volunteer firefighters in La Ronge got a nice pick-me-up this week from children in the Lloydminster area as a care package full of snacks and handwritten cards arrived on Tuesday."When we opened...

Ramona Ross was already hard at work at the local gas station on the Montreal Lake Cree Nation Thursday morning as more than 1,000 people returned to the community after nearly three weeks of evacuati...

The premiers of Saskatchewan and British Columbia would like to see a national approach to fighting forest fires, fearing this year's wildfires are the new normal.Saskatchewan's Brad Wall said Thursda...

Flora Kraus sat in the little community office in Weyakwin Tuesday afternoon organizing how to get returning residents water and access to a landfill. The administrator for the community could step ou...

As hundreds of wildfires tear through northern Saskatchewan, the province's mining sector is being affected in more ways than one.Claude Resources had to suspend operations at its Seabee gold mine as ...

Sitting on a bench just outside the Henk Ruys Soccer Centre evacuation shelter in Saskatoon, Felix Herman watches as a handful of residents from Pinehouse jump on a coach bus heading back home. But fo...

Premier Brad Wall has made the tough decision to leave Saskatchewan as unprecedented wildfires burn to join the premiers meetings in St. John's, Newfoundland a day late.He left Wednesday after briefin...