Maury Wrubleski

The Community Safety Officer (CSO) program continues to prove its effectiveness in bolstering public safety in Humboldt and its surrounding contracted communities, Lanigan and Watson, according to Audrey Dore, Program Manager of Policy and Governance with the Provincial Protective Services branch of the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety. 

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says that the past several weeks have seen a de-escalation of fire activity in the province, but the summer has had a horrific impact on northern residents with thousands displaced from their homes and many others witnessing the destruction of their dwellings. 

Despite recent price drop at  provincial pumps, Saskatchewan motorists are shelling out nearly a quarter of their total fuel bill in taxes, according to a new report from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), which is calling on both provincial and federal governments to ease the burden on drivers. 

Saskatchewan’s New Democrats have looked at the latest data published by the non-profit organization Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), and they are not happy about what the numbers show. 

In a release on August 5, the NDP says those numbers show Saskatchewan as having the fewest childcare spaces in Canada, amounting to a space for only 21 per cent of Saskatchewan children aged 0-5. Taking into account children 0 to 12 years of age, the availability drops to 12 per cent.  

A pair of high-tech drug drops at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary was foiled by Saskatchewan RCMP. The seizure of drugs and the delivery drone has also resulted in the arrests of three individuals following separate investigations in Prince Albert.  

In early July, Saskatchewan RCMP’s Prince Albert Crime Reduction Team (CRT) received a report of a potential delivery of drugs to the Saskatchewan Penitentiary by drone. 

Thousands of Saskatchewan families will have greater access to sport, cultural, and recreational opportunities in 2025, thanks to an expansion of the provincial Active Families Benefit. 

A group of resolute walkers is trekking down Highway 6 from Muskoday First Nation to the Legislature in Regina to bring attention to the fentanyl crisis, not only in their home nation, but across the province and the country. 

Erica Hennie and Betty Prosper are among over a dozen walkers who set out from their home on Monday, June 9. Originally from La Ronge, Hennie works at the Muskoday Health Centre, and Prosper is a former addictions counsellor. Discover Humboldt caught up with the group north of Watson on Highway 6. 

Noted Canadian author and lecturer Bill Waiser addressed a full house at the Humboldt and District Gallery on Wednesday night during a lecture entitled we are all treaty people. Drawing on years of research and his own writings, wiser took the audience through a chronology of early contact with European plain settlers, the Hudson Bay company, and indigenous peoples of the area. 

Lions Clubs across northern Saskatchewan are rallying together to provide urgent aid to evacuees displaced by ongoing wildfires in the region. The effort is being bolstered by a $15,000 USD emergency grant from the Lions Clubs International Foundation. 

SaskPower and the Saskatchewan First Nations Resource Centre of Excellence have formally committed to deepening collaboration through a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), aimed at increasing First Nations participation in Saskatchewan’s power system.