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4:52 PM CST Sunday 07 February 2021 Environment Canada A period of severely cold wind chills is expected. Extreme cold will persist for a few days.

This is the perfect time of year to become an armchair gardener. There is enough snow outside that not much can actually be done, so there is time to sit and read, cover to cover, each seed catalogue that arrives in the mailbox.

There were 774 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 42,296.

Festival Fanfare

Last February, Felix Böck picked up a shipping container sent express from Disneyland and stuffed with a precious load: Single-use chopsticks the company couldn’t use because of a package design error.

Update: The RCMP would like to thank the public for their assistance. Sandra Wittow has been located and reunited with her family. Background: The Leduc RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance to locate a missing woman.

There were 2,412 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 41,254.

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A man charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jamey Leroy Roberts pleaded guilty on Feb. 4 in La Ronge Provincial Court to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Kane Lenard Roberts, 26, has been in custody since he was arrested Sept. 27, 2020.

New outbreaks in the North West zone have been added to the COVID-19 dashboard maintained by the Government of Saskatchewan. For the Battlefords, they include: Connaught Elementary School, Feb. 12 River Heights Lodge, Feb.