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Six more COVID-19 cases and six more recoveries in province; outbreaks in northern Alberta affecting Sask.
Saskatchewan has six new cases of COVID-19, three confirmed and three presumptive, bringing the total to 313 cases reported to date. Six more recoveries have been reported, bringing that total to 234....
Apr 18, 2020 (ID 177520873 © Rik Trottier | Dreamstime.com)
Online auction sales benefit from self-isolation
The impact from COVID-19 has not been all doom and gloom. Saskatchewan companies involved in online auction sales have in recent weeks seen a bump in business.Myron Schmalz, an auctioneer at Schmalz A...
Apr 17, 2020 Schmalz Auctions is offering a phone app for its customers. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Agriculture products included in road ban exemptions
The provincial government along with the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) have introduced road ban exemptions for agriculture products.Highways and Infrastructure Minister Greg ...
Apr 17, 2020 ID 95063146 © Dakotastudios Dreamstime.com
Food habits changes with pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely redefine what we eat and how we grocery shop in the years to come.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to Sylvain Charlebois about the impact in homes and the food se...
Apr 17, 2020 ID 89393308 © Katarzyna Bialasiewicz Dreamstime.com
Trudeau says $1.7B coming for orphaned-well cleanups
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will support work in the oil and gas sector by spending $1.7 billion to help clean up "orphaned wells." He says restoring abandoned o...
Apr 17, 2020
Canadian Light Source involved in California drought study
Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan is looking at ways to help California farmers through periods of drought.Researchers at CLS are investigating how carbon ends up in soil.S...
Apr 17, 2020 ID 102643735 © Krisana Antharith Dreamstime.com
Agriculture Roundup for Friday April 17, 2020
Another blow to the cattle sector.RealAgriculture.com is reporting Cargill's High River, Alta. beef processing plant has suspended cattle kills.It's expected to be a temporary measure and sources said...
Apr 17, 2020 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Sask. RCMP issues warrants for four suspects in online romance schemes
One man has been arrested and Canada-wide warrants have been issued for four other men in connection with online romance scams.According to a media release Thursday from the RCMP, the five men were li...
Apr 16, 2020 (Lisa Schick/CKOM News Staff)
Foreign workers crucial to bee farms
There were a lot of very happy beekeepers at the Saskatoon airport on Monday afternoon.The Canadian Honey Council chartered a plane from Nicaragua that held 48 temporary foreign workers destined for 1...
Apr 16, 2020 ID 75098279 © Tyler Lillico Dreamstime.com
‘I’ll never forgive him for doing any of that’: La Loche shooting victim
A sense of relief for many accompanied Thursday's news that the Supreme Court of Canada would not hear an appeal from a young offender who was sentenced as an adult in a mass shooting in La Loche.Rand...
Apr 16, 2020 Police outside the Dene High School building in La Loche, Sask. following a shooting in January 2016. (Bryn Levy/650 CKOM)