Northern Referrals Hurting Health Region’s Budget

Northern Referrals Hurting Health Region’s Budget Monday, March 16, 2009 at 12:42     The provincial government is providing the Prince Albert Parkland Regional Health Authority with $5.2 million in additional funding for the current fiscal year to cover...

Dagenais Given Mandatory Life Sentence

Dagenais Given Mandatory Life Sentence Friday, March 13, 2009 at 14:16     Spectators clapped this morning as a judge in Saskatoon handed down the mandatory life sentence to a man convicted in the fatal shootings of two Saskatchewan Mounties and the attempted murder...

BMO To Close Branches In Beauval, Ile-a-la-Crosse

BMO To Close Branches In Beauval, Ile-a-la-Crosse Friday, March 13, 2009 at 14:11     The Bank of Montreal has sent shock waves throughout northwest Saskatchewan with word it will be closing its branches in Ile-a-la-Crosse and Beauval in September.   In notices it has...

Meadow Lake Sawmill Shutting Down

Meadow Lake Sawmill Shutting Down Friday, March 13, 2009 at 14:08     NorSask Forest Products in Meadow Lake is shutting down its sawmill indefinitely, starting this Sunday.   Forty people will be out of work as a result of that decision.   However, 22 employees will...

Trial Ordered For Ballantyne Murder Suspects

Trial Ordered For Ballantyne Murder Suspects Friday, March 13, 2009 at 14:05     Two men accused of killing another man in Pelican Narrows almost a year ago have been committed to stand trial.   The decision was made last month after a judge in Prince Albert reviewed...

Merchant Handed Two-Week Suspension

Merchant Handed Two-Week Suspension Friday, March 13, 2009 at 14:03     A Regina lawyer whose firm has pursued class-action lawsuits on behalf of Indian residential school survivors is being temporarily suspended from practising law.   The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal...