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Newo Yotina Friendship Centre approved as safe consumption site Only the second site in the province. The Newo Yotina Friendship Centre, located on the corner of Osler Street and 11th Avenue in Regina, has been given preliminary approval to become a new temporary safe consumption site within the province in the coming weeks. As it currently stands, Prairie Harm Reduction (formerly Aids Saskatoon) is the only site in Saskatchewan for safe consumption. The site comes during an overdose epidemic in the province. According the Coroner’s Report for 2020 in Saskatchewan, there were around 170 con...

The Cree nation north of Regina is using photo-billboards with short, seven-word phrases to remind its members to stay COVID-safe.

Fort Qu'Appelle council forms committee for art building's future “They are going to discuss the issue at hand and hopefully amicably work towards a solution that’s agreeable to everyone.” Author of the article: Evan Radford Publishing date: Feb 26, 2021  •  February 26, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  Fort Qu'Appelle's Qu'Appelle Valley Centre for the Arts is a non-profit group that occupies and uses this building, which goes by the same name, in late February 2021. The building used to be the Old Central School, built in 1911 in the Saskatchewan town. Submitted Photo/Br...

Article content Thanks to a recently passed multi-region ride-share bylaw, Uber can now take its foot off the brake and start doing pickups in rural areas and communities outside Regina. The app-based ride-share service announced on Friday last week it had obtained the necessary licence from the Rural Municipality of Edenwold, which had been spearheading the push for the collaborative-type bylaw last year. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Uber gets green light on rural-based pickups outside Regina Back to video Ride-share regulations cover ori...

Saskatchewan health officials made two changes to COVID-19 testing guidelines this week and both signal a concern for the potential threat variants pose to the province.