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Emergency crews respond to gas leak near Lashburn

Emergency crews are on scene at an energy facility about 10 km west of Lashburn on Highway 16 following reports of a possible gas leak. Legacy Regional Protective Services responded to the call Tuesday. RCMP and two EMS units, one from Lloydminster and one from Maidstone, have also arrived. Very little information is available at this time. The cause of the leak and the extent of any exposure are not yet known. Drivers are asked to move over and stop if they see emergency vehicles responding in the area, as per standard procedure. Please listen to all emergency personnel who

One injured person, one wheatfield, no apparent cause

Featured, Alerts and incidents

At approximately 9:50 p.m. Sunday, Lloyd Rescue Squad along with EMS and RCMP were dispatched to a field near Sandy Beach after reports of an injured person in the area. The original dispatch for the call noted that a ATV had been involved in a incident and one individual was in need of medical attention near Highway 17 and highway 798. According to officials crews on scene and with the assistance of an RCMP drone operator, located the individual in the field, however did not locate any quad or reason for injury. Lloyd Rescue Squad utilized their side-by-side to retrieve

Legacy cuts rescue time with new extrication tools

Featured, Community Insights

Legacy Regional Protective Services has replaced its hydraulic extrication equipment with battery-powered tools, cutting deployment time from minutes to seconds and freeing up crew members during vehicle extrication calls. Chief Dean Peters said the upgrade moved fast once it started. He and Deputy Chief Dumais were reviewing the department’s Legacy Asset Management Plan with council when a deal came up on in-stock equipment. “It didn’t have a shelf life, so council acted quickly,” Peters said. Within a month of the first discussion, the new tools were on a truck. The department spent $43,000 on the equipment, funded through its annual

“Reasonable Force” used in Viral Loon Lake Area arrest

Featured, Crime and Courts

RCMP say the force used during an arrest near Loon Lake was reasonable, after video from the scene began circulating on social media. What happened Officers responded to a report of a drug-impaired person on a street in Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation at about 5 a.m. on July 27, according to a Saskatchewan RCMP statement. While responding, officers saw a man wanted on a warrant enter a nearby residence. They approached and spoke with people at the door. Two wanted men were arrested there without incident, RCMP said. During the arrest, a 40-year-old woman became confrontational and punched two officers,

PHOTOS – Vermilion RCMP respond to weapons call

Featured, Alerts and incidents

Vermilion RCMP responded to a report of a possible firearm outside a McDonald’s restaurant Friday evening after a witness saw a person stumbling through the parking lot with what appeared to be a handgun. The call came in around 6 p.m. July 24. Border Pulse observed the person taken into custody and placed in the back of a police vehicle before being removed from the scene. The item turned out to be a lighter shaped like a firearm, RCMP said. No charges were laid. RCMP said items shaped like real firearms can be mistaken for the real thing, prompting a

Transparency demanded after NDP leak local health assessment

Lloydminster News, Featured, Lloydminster Health Needs Assessment: Investigation

The Saskatchewan NDP released a leaked copy of the Lloydminster Health Service Needs Assessment this week, the same 261-page document our newsroom has spent weeks reporting on after obtaining it through a confidential source in June. Carla Beck’s party held a news conference in Lloydminster to release the report publicly. The Sask. Party government has refused to release the full document, issuing a four-page summary instead last month. BorderPulse published a 12-part investigative series on the assessment starting June 29, drawing directly from the document’s findings on emergency room closures, mental health staffing and a missing intensive care unit. The

Column: Do you have solutions?

Featured, Community Insights

This is the weekly opinion column by owner/founder of Border Pulse. Sometimes we are really good as journalists pointing out the problems in society. It’s less often we are asked to point toward what might fix it. So today, three problems this region knows well, and ideas worth putting on the table. If you’ve got some, I want to hear it. The volunteer well is running dry and getting older. Talk to anyone running a local fundraiser, a fair, a ribfest, or a Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and you’ll hear the same complaint. Where did all the volunteers go?

Behind the Bison – Consequences

Featured, Community Insights

RCMP Staff Sgt. Jerry Nutbrown brings you behind the scenes with a serious of columns taking you behind police work and how it’s done in our community. If you have a question you think needs to be answered in Behind the Bison, send it to admin@borderpulse.ca and we will be sure to share it with him. There are guidelines, rules and laws involved in nearly every aspect of our lives. A person’s willingness tocomply with them is mostly what we see day-to-day as we go about our lives. Generally, a person notadhering to them is what makes the news or a Facebook

Warm, dry week lets northwest Sask. crops catch up

Agriculture, Featured

Warmer and drier conditions helped crops progress across northwest Saskatchewan last week, including the Lloydminster area, and let haying operations move forward. Localized storms still caused damage to crops and property in parts of the region. High humidity has raised the risk of crop disease, and producers are spraying to keep it in check while also prepping equipment for harvest. The Meadow Lake area saw the most rain in the region at 73 millimetres during a localized storm. Rabbit Lake received 45 millimetres and Medstead received 30 millimetres. Topsoil moisture eased slightly with the warmer weather but remains mostly adequate.

Excess moisture keeps stressing northeast Alberta crops

Agriculture, Featured

Crop conditions in northeast Alberta, including the Lloydminster area, fell to 47.6 per cent good to excellent this week, down from 51.6 per cent last week. The region now sits below both its five and 10 year averages of 51.7 and 65.9 per cent, according to the latest Alberta Crop Report. Provincially, major crop conditions dipped slightly to 62.9 per cent good to excellent, down one per cent from last week. That figure still sits above the province’s five and 10 year averages of 46.7 and 58.7 per cent. The South Region led the province at 85 per cent good