According to smoke forecasts provided by FireSmoke Canada, the Canadian portal for information and resources about smoke from wildland fires, smoke from the fires burning on the US West Coast are projected to reach the Northeast region in Saskatchewan early in the morning of Monday, September 14th, 2020.
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Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment Released on September 9, 2020
The Ministry of Environment is once again encouraging hunters to submit the heads of deer, moose and elk harvested this hunting season for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing. CWD is a fatal, infectious central nervous system disease in cervids that has no known cure.
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As harvest in the area begins to ramp up, rural Saskatchewan sees an increase in heavy equipment, with everything from combines to super-B’s on our grid roads and highways.
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Sometime between the evening of Thursday, June 25th 2020, and early morning on Friday June 26th, a sign for Brennan Jardine Aerial Spraying, located just west of Love, SK along Highway 55, was vandalized.
The word “SCAB”, with a homophobic slur below it, was spray painted on the sign.
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The wildfire in the forest northeast of Prairie River, SK has been listed by Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment Wildfire Management as caused by lightning.
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Monday, June 15th, 2020 – On June 14th, 2020 a wildfire was detected northeast of Prairie River, SK in the RM of Porcupine approximately 130 km southeast of Nipawin, SK and approximately 30 km west of Hudson Bay, SK.
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Updates to the Fort à la Corne (20PA-ENGLISH) fire can be found here: Fort à la Corne Wildfire No Longer Contained
Fort à la Corne Provincial Forest saw Saskatchewan’s largest wildfire of the 2020 season to date this week, which reached 1,275 hectares. According to Saskatchewan Wildfire Management the fire started on May 8th, 2020 is currently contained, and the cause has not yet been determined.
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A Saskatchewan resident in their 60s has died from complications related to COVID-19. The death took place in Regina. The province now has four deaths related to the virus.
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“Farmers need cash to be able to get their crop in the ground this spring, and after the brutal last couple of years we’ve dealt with, reduced cash flow could really break people,” – farmer and APAS President Todd Lewis
Town of Carrot River Regular Poll for the By-Election for Mayor Scheduled March 25, 2020 has been officially RESCHEDULED to Friday, May 8, 2020.