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Key messages from HIV conference come to Saskatchewan
By Angela HillA Saskatchewan medical health officer is returning to work excited to build on momentum after spending a week at the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne.Dr. JohnMark Opondo said...
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Sask. celebrates successes on World AIDS Day
By Angela HillThere may be successes at the end of Saskatchewan’s four-year HIV strategy, but the ministry of health is still keeping an eye on a few key groups.“It’s a complex problem that isn’t going...
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Afridi family reunited in Saskatoon
By Angela HillThe middle of Sunday night marked the end of a five-year long struggle for a Saskatoon couple to adopt their child from Pakistan.Waheeda Afridi arrived at the Saskatoon airport on a...
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Sask. fires merge near La Ronge, become 5.5 times size of Saskatoon
By Angela HillThe Egg fire has merged with the Eli fire making it 950 square kilometres or five and a half times the size of Saskatoon. The fire, which will be known as the Egg fire, is within two...
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VIDEO: Rain helps fire efforts as Pinehouse evacuees go home
By Angela HillAs Pinehouse evacuees return home on Wednesday, the province is working hard to make sure other communities follow suit. Wildfires continue to rage in Saskatchewan’s north. Three fires...
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More Sask. fire evacuees return home
By Angela HillSaskatchewan fire evacuees continue to flood home on Thursday. Evacuees from La Loche, Dillon, Michel Bay, St. George’s Hill, Ramsey Bay, Timber Bay, Montreal Lake Cree Nation and Weyakin...
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Military works last shift as Sask. evacuees return home
By Angela HillThe province is nearly finished helping northern Saskatchewan evacuees back home as the military gets set to do the same. There are still evacuation orders in effect for Hall Lake and...
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Prince Albert health region tries new tactic to get used needles off streets
By Angela HillA Saskatchewan health region is changing how it hands needles out in an effort to get more of them off the street.“We had quite a large number of people who never brought anything back...
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VIDEO: RCMP officer 'in the zone' while dancing at Sask. powwow
By Angela HillA video of an RCMP officer in uniform moving in time to drums at a powwow in Saskatchewan is getting a lot of attention.Const. J.P. Gauthier is from Quebec and he is on a two-year posting...
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HIV report authors look to stop epidemic
By Angela HillSaskatchewan still has the highest rate of HIV in Canada, but an action plan being suggested by the Saskatchewan HIV/AIDS Research Endeavor (SHARE) aims to change that.“How do we achieve...
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HIV report authors look to stop epidemic
By Angela HillSaskatchewan still has the highest rate of HIV in Canada, but an action plan being suggested by the Saskatchewan HIV/AIDS Research Endeavor (SHARE) aims to change that.“How do we achieve...
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Keeping Sask. HIV information current
By Angela HillEvery World AIDS Day, public health officials in Saskatchewan release numbers of new HIV cases in the province.Historically the data is from the previous year, but that is slowly...
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2 HIV positive babies in born in Sask. this year
By Angela HillIn Saskatchewan there were two cases of HIV infection in babies in 2015.“We are all very concerned about these babies being born with HIV and it just gives us more fuel to work harder at...
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Crystal meth creates "troubling" HIV situation
By Angela HillCrystal meth could be making the HIV epidemic in Saskatchewan worse, according to local physicians.“We're seeing more crystal meth use than we have seen in the past, which is extremely...
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Saskatoon man donates kidney to fiancée
By Angela HillA perfect match in love and in life. It sounds like a piece from a movie, but it’s the story of Saskatoon's Chris Willenborg and his fiancée Errin Tollefson.The pair met about five years...
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