UPDATE: The missing woman has been found safe.Spiritwood RCMP have turned to the public for help in locating a 26-year-old woman. The woman was last seen on Tuesday afternoon at around 1 p.m. on the Big River First Nation. --cjnbnews@pattisonmedia.com

UPDATE: RCMP said that Sakebow was found in Witchekan Lake on April 24 and will be in North Battleford Provincial Court tomorrow. An Edmonton man charged with killing Teddy Whitehead on the Witchekan Lake First Nation last July is now being sought by Spiritwood RCMP. Nathaniel Sakebow, age 33, was charged with manslaug...

The field is officially set and soon Prince Albert will welcome some of the best players from the world of men's softball. On Wednesday, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) confirmed the teams that will compete for a chance to advance to the Men's Softball World Cup Finals in Prince Albert in 2025. While t...

Although they banned over 30 people this year for safety related reasons, the director of the Prince Albert Public Library confirmed there are no plans at this time to reduce hours.Alex Juorio is responding to a recent incident in Saskatoon that resulted in four of the city's libraries reducing their hours. Two teenage...

The country's most comprehensive study on the effects of radiation on 90,000 Canadian uranium workers is delayed.Originally expected to have its final study results released this year, the study has been pushed back to 2026 due to data-collecting complications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada is the world's s...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan residents will continue to get carbon rebates even though the province has stopped remitting levies from natural gas to Ottawa. Trudeau said Tuesday in Saskatoon the Canada Revenue Agency has mechanisms to collect money the province owes. "We're going to continue to ...

It was a very wet welcome for the Governor General's first official visit to Saskatchewan on Monday.Gov. Gen. Mary Simon was set to spend three days in the province. On Monday, she started at the Legislative Building and Government House.Premier Scott Moe and other members of government greeted Simon at the building an...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon today.An itinerary released by his office says he will make an announcement this morning to highlight measures focused on youth, education, and health that were contained in last week's budget.Trudeau will be joined at the event by Dan Vandal, minister for Northern Aff...

Standing in front of reporters earlier today in the legislative building, the leader of the opposition officially called on Premier Scott Moe to give the Minister for Education "the boot." "Saskatchewan people are right to hold their leaders to a higher standard, that goes double for cabinet ministers,&q...

A new report shows that a crisis affecting thousands of Saskatchewan people got incredibly worse during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published a study last week showing the number of opioid-related deaths nationwide from 2019-2021. In that period, the number of opio...

OTTAWA - The Green Party is decrying a 60-day sentence handed to its deputy leader today for her role in old growth logging protests on Vancouver Island. Angela Davidson, also known as Rainbow Eyes, was convicted in January of seven counts of criminal contempt for breaching a court injunction and later her bail conditi...

A new paper says a giant salmon that lived five million years ago in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest used tusk-like spikes as defense mechanisms and for building nests to spawn. The initial fossil discoveries of the 2.7-metre-long salmon in Oregon in the 1970s were incomplete and led researchers to suggest ...

HALIFAX - After last summer's heat waves, deadly floods and record-breaking wildfires, some scientists are urging Canadian health professionals to help their patients better prepare for climate change-related extreme weather and natural disasters. Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the U...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has awarded the organization that manages Montreal's Olympic Stadium up to $40 million to pay for repairs and decontamination after a March 21 fire. Parc olympique spokesman Cédric Essiminy says extensive decontamination work is needed in the stadium's tower because smoke spread ...

OTTAWA - Travellers would be able to use facial recognition technology to identify themselves through their smartphones when crossing the border under a planned federal project. The Canada Border Services Agency says the initiative would allow for a faster and more seamless travel experience. The federal government rec...

WHITE ROCK, B.C. - A man has been killed in a stabbing in White Rock, B.C., and police say there are "apparent similarities" to another knife attack in the same area two days earlier. RCMP say the latest incident happened late Tuesday, when a man was reported to have been stabbed near the White Rock Pier. Pol...

A local farmer from central Alberta will be featured as a guest speaker at the annual Alberta Community Crime Prevention Association (ACCPA) conferenc...

The Competition Bureau has stated the proposed acquisition of Viterra Limited (Viterra) by Bunge Limited (Bunge) would have 'substantial anti-competit...

Alberta says it will be home to the largest renewable diesel facility in Canada as Imperial qualifies for the Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit pr...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A historic ranch near Lethbridge is being put under conservation easements.Conservation easements are legal mechanisms that protect t...

As the world celebrates Earth Day on Monday, one agriculture organization is reflecting on the work it accomplished in 2023.According to a release fro...

On any given day, Prince Albert, SK veterinarian Peter Surkan sees roughly 40 patients, but for every patient he sees, there are dozens more waiting.T...

CHICAGO (AP) - The "rat hole" is gone. A Chicago sidewalk landmark some residents affectionately called the "rat hole" was removed Wednesday after city officials determined the section bearing the imprint of an animal was damaged and needed to be replaced, officials said. The imprint has been a quir...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) - North Macedonia will head to a presidential runoff after no candidate secured enough votes to win outright in Wednesday's first round of balloting held as the country seeks to enter into the European Union. The second round of voting on May 8 will coincide with parliamentary elections. Pr...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13 in favor, Russia opposed and China abstaining. The resolution calls on all countri...

PHOENIX (AP) - A proposed repeal of Arizona's near-total ban on abortions has won approval from the state House, clearing its first hurdle two weeks after a court concluded the state can enforce the 1864 law, which only offers an exception for saving the patient's life. Three Republicans joined in with all 29 Democrats...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - One of the two pilots aboard an airplane carrying fuel reported there was a fire on the airplane shortly before it crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, killing both people on board, a federal aviation official said Wednesday. The pilot had made radio contact about the in-fight emergency shortl...

MADRID (AP) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denied corruption allegations against his wife but said he will consider resigning after a judicial investigation was launched Wednesday into accusations that she used her position to influence business deals. Sánchez said in a letter posted on his X acco...