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Lloydminster man killed in Hwy. 797 rollover

A Lloydminster man is dead following a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 797 near Frenchman Butte on *July 2. Onion Lake RCMP received the report at approximately 11:30 a.m. Officers responded along with local fire crews and EMS. The vehicle’s sole occupant was transported to hospital by EMS. He was declared deceased by EMS while en route to hospital. RCMP have identified him as a 40-year-old man from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. His family has been notified. Onion Lake RCMP continue to investigate with the assistance of a Saskatchewan RCMP collision reconstructionist. This is a developing story. BorderPulse will update as more information

Lloydminster Health Assessment-4- Our Mental Health Crisis

Lloydminster Health Needs Assessment: Investigation, Featured, Lloydminster News

A $262,260 health assessment found Lloydminster’s mental health and addictions system is so under-resourced that police are the default first responders for people in crisis. The document recommends a 132 per cent increase in community mental health staffing. When someone in Lloydminster is in a mental health crisis after business hours, there is no clinical team to call. There is no crisis response unit. There is no dedicated psychiatric space at the hospital. There is the police. “There is no formal crisis response team in Lloydminster and no after-hours clinical community support, so local police are acting the default first

Traffic analyst en route for Highway 797 collision

Featured, Alerts and incidents

RCMP, Lloyd Rescue Squad and other emergency services are currently on scene of a Motor Vehicle collision just east of Highway 17. For the privacy of those involved, no details are being released at this time. However, a traffic analyst is on his way. Lloydminster Rescue Squad officials have stated that 797 is closed between Hwy. 17 and RR 3275 and will remain so for the next several hours. This story will be updated. Read more: Lloyd Rescue on route to collision on Highway 797

Lloydminster RCMP: “No criminal offense” In Holy Rosary Probe

Lloydminster News, Featured

Lloydminster RCMP have concluded their investigation into online allegations of unprofessional conduct by a teacher in the Lloydminster Catholic School Division, finding no criminal offence occurred. Police said all individuals directly involved in the matter have been identified and took part in the investigation. RCMP acknowledged the allegations were first shared on social media and said they were taken seriously. “As a result of a thorough investigation, police have determined that no criminal offence has occurred,” S/Sgt. Bruce MacLean said. Police also said they were advised the non-criminal events in question were addressed by LCSD at the time they occurred.

Lloydminster Health Assessment: -3 – “Avoidable newborn transfers”

Featured, Lloydminster Health Needs Assessment: Investigation, Lloydminster News

Lloydminster Hospital delivers roughly 800 babies a year. A $262,260 health assessment says some of those newborns are being transferred out of the city for reasons that have nothing to do with their medical condition. Every year, approximately 800 babies are born at Lloydminster Hospital. Some of them are transferred to Saskatoon or Edmonton shortly after. According to the Lloydminster Health Service Needs Assessment, those transfers are not always driven by the medical needs of the newborn. “Newborn transfers are sometimes driven by staffing constraints rather than patient acuity,” the assessment states. Patient acuity means how sick a patient is.

Opinion: Proud to be Canadian

Featured, Community Insights

We are just a baby in the grand scheme of things. At 159 years old, Canada is older than 140 sovereign countries. If you count from Newfoundland’s entry into Confederation, we are 77, still older than about 110 nations. We are dwarfed by the world’s oldest country, San Marino, at more than 1,700 years. But we tower over the youngest, South Sudan, just a teenager at 15. That history is dotted with moments of enormous pride. Nearly 110 years ago, Canada became a nation in the eyes of many historians after all four Canadian divisions fought together for the first

This week’s Border Pulse Highlights

Featured, Lloydminster Health Needs Assessment: Investigation, Lloydminster News

This week’s front page continues our multi-part investigative series into the Lloydminster Health Service Needs Assessment, a 261-page document two governments paid $262,260 for, received in December, and largely buried. We’re publishing what they didn’t. Inside, we cover the tactical arrest of a Lloydminster man after RCMP’s Emergency Response Team deployed explosive devices on 52 Avenue Close. Two Lloydminster congregations have officially merged into One Church. And Sgt. Nutbrown’s Behind the Bison column takes on drug overdoses, including local numbers that haven’t been widely reported. The back page carries a Canada Day editorial from your editor. Pick up limited copies

Video: Lloydminster man charged after tactical arrest, blasts

Featured, Crime and Courts

A south Lloydminster neighbourhood was locked down for roughly 45 minutes Saturday evening as RCMP’s Emergency Response Team moved in on a home near the Servus Sports Centre. More than a dozen vehicles carrying plainclothes and uniformed officers from Lloydminster RCMP, the Edmonton-based Emergency Response Team and a police service dog surrounded a residence in the 1600 block of 52B Avenue Close at approximately 5:30 p.m. June 27. Officers used a loudspeaker to order Sheldon Stark to exit the home with his hands raised. Two explosions then rocked the neighbourhood as tactical explosive devices were deployed to take the suspect

Video: Charges laid after Semi involved in Lloydminster collision

Alerts and incidents, Featured

A collision at approximately 11:10 p.m. June 29, a semi-truck and passenger vehicle were involved in a collision at the corner of 57 Ave. and 44 St. Witnesses stated the Transport truck appeared to have ignored the light while travelling westbound on 44 St. before turning southbound on 57 Ave., The black passenger vehicle was travelling at a “quick speed” going eastbound. Lloydminster Fire and Rescue, RCMP and paramedics from Medavie West arrived on scene and provided treatment to the teenage male of the vehicle who was hit by the deployed airbag. The driver of the transport was not injured.

Sask. RCMP: Man shot helping stranded driver near Cando

Featured

Battlefords RCMP are searching for two suspects after a man was shot while trying to help what he thought was a stranded driver near Cando, Sask. Police received a report of an injured male at a hospital in North Battleford at approximately 3:45 a.m. on June 27. Investigators determined the man had seen a truck stopped on the side of a road near Cando. He approached to see if the occupants needed help. The driver got out and fired a gun, injuring the man. The driver then got back in the truck and fled the area. The man was taken