LA LOCHE, Sask. - Six Saskatchewan cabinet ministers are visiting a remote northern community where staff and students at the high school said they feel like they've been abandoned since a deadly shooting a year ago.
Education Minister Don Morgan, who is also deputy premier, says they're meeting with town and school officials in La Loche to find out if supports are working and what more can be done.
A gunman opened fire at the La Loche high school in January 2016, killing a teacher and teacher's aide, and wounding seven others.
School principal Greg Hatch said last month that there was some help for about a month after the shooting, but after that, the school was left on its own to make it through the year.
Morgan says there are more school counsellors, improvements have been made to adult education and skills training, and there's a new affordable housing project for the community.
But he says wants to "dig deeper" and talk with the principal and teachers to get a sense directly from them about what is needed.
