A Wakaw woman is facing charges of theft and fraud from people’s bank accounts. Brenda Venne, 63, was charged after a 16-month investigation by the Saskatoon RCMP’s General Investigation Section. Conexus Credit Union released a statement Thursday, saying they sincerely regret this happened and they have worked diligently with investigators and also those people impacted […]
Five people have died after testing positive for COVID-19 as part of the Lakeview Pioneer Lodge outbreak in Wakaw. The outbreak began on Dec. 28. Since then, all residents have tested positive and up to 25 staff have tested positive. Another 20 staff members are at home with COVID-19 symptoms. Lakeview Pioneer Lodge CEO Wayne […]
The Saskatchewan NDP are condemning what they call a failure by the provincial government to keep seniors safe from COVID-19. This comes after an outbreak at the Lakeview Pioneer Lodge in Wakaw, where 43 of the 44 residents tested positive for the virus, with four passing away as of Friday morning. Around 60 percent of […]
Wakaw’s Lakeview Pioneer Lodge is one of the senior care homes in Saskatchewan that has been hit with a COVID-19 outbreak. Nearly all 44 residents tested positive for the virus this week with most of the seniors who tested positive being asymptomatic. As of Friday morning, four of the home’s residents who had positive tests […]
Wakaw RCMP are on the lookout for a 27-year-old woman suspected in an attempted child abduction Saturday night. The detachment received a report of several disturbances on the One Arrow First Nation around 6:45 p.m Officers were told at one of the disturbances that an adult woman had entered a home uninvited, assaulted a woman […]
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has issued a COVID-19 exposure alert for four locations across Saskatchewan. The SHA wants to let you know about two individuals during two separate incidents who tested COVID-19 positive who were at the following businesses when they were likely infectious: Co-op Watrous Food Store – August 28, 3:00-3:30 PM Waskesiu Tempo, […]
A man has been charged in connection to yesterday’s five vehicle collision east of Wakaw on Highway #41. At about 1:00 PM, Wakaw RCMP were called to a construction zone, where a semi-truck rear-ended the vehicles ahead of him. The collision resulted in the death of a 69 year-old man. No name has been released. […]
RCMP have blocked Highway 41 by Wakaw in both directions following a serious multi-vehicle collision on Tuesday afternoon. Police say they received a call of a collision involving four vehicle and a semi-truck on a construction site at about 1:00 p.m. The accident occured on Highway 41, approximately five miles east of Wakaw. RCMP, along […]
A Melfort man is facing drug and weapons charges after an arrest near Wakaw. RCMP say as part of an ongoing investigation, officers arrested two men and three women at a Shell Gas Station near Wakaw on Thursday. Police also executed a search warrant at a home on Stovel Avenue in Melfort. RCMP found and […]
The province has approved photo speed enforcement for the intersection of Highways 41 and 2 at Wakaw. The government believes speed is a persistent problem, with data showing 42 percent is vehicles travelling through the intersection exceeding the posted limit. The province adds that of those, 6.2 percent were more than 10km/hr over the limit. […]
