by MBC News | Oct 8, 2014
A Canadian journalist says the pressures of balancing a high stress career, family and meeting society’s expectations is driving some women to drink too much. Ann Dowsett Johnston is the author of the new book, Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2014
A vehicle stop south of La Ronge on Highway 2 turned into a drug bust at about 5:30 this morning. Four people have been taken into custody and about six ounces of what is believed to be cocaine was seized. No charges have yet been laid. The drug has a street value of...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2014
A major fetal alcohol spectrum disorder conference kicked off in Saskatoon Tuesday morning. The conference is called FASDlive: Mapping Our Road to Success and it is being put on by the FASD Support Network of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute....
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2014
A major fetal alcohol spectrum disorder conference kicked off in Saskatoon Tuesday morning. The conference is called FASDlive: Mapping Our Road to Success and it is being put on by the FASD Support Network of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute....
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2014
Workers at Cameco’s McArthur River mine nad Key Lake mill in Northern Saskatchewan have ratified a new four year contract. It expires at the end of 2017 and provides a 12% wage increase over the life of the contract. Work at the two mines actually resumed in mid...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2014
The family of a teenager who died in the Prince Albert Youth Facility hopes the inquest into his death can prevent similar deaths in the future. Dylan LaChance, who suffered form a hearing and speech impairment, passed away after he was at the facility in September...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
A 65-year-old man from the Yellow Quill First Nation is dead following a single vehicle rollover just south of Tisdale. RCMP say a truck was found overturned in the ditch on Highway 35 at around 8 a.m. today. Charlie Machiskinic was declared dead at the scene....
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The province has improved access to vision care for people living with diabetes. Annual eye exams with an optometrist will now be covered through Saskatchewan Health. About 90,000 people are afflicted with diabetes in the province and this rate is two to five times...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The jury has been selected at the inquest into the death of Dylan LaChance. The 16-year-old LaChance, of the Big River First Nation, passed away while he was at the Prince Albert Youth Residence in September of last year. LaChance was found in medical distress at the...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The ongoing Saskatoon transit dispute is affecting people who access the food bank. Roughly 25 per cent of the 12,000 people who use the food bank’s services each month depend on bus service to get there. Saskatoon Food Bank Executive Director Laurie O’Connor says as...
