Some of Santa's elves showed up Friday at the Prince Albert Safe Shelter for Women.Over a dozen wrapped and brightly coloured packages were unloaded not from a sleigh, but rather from a Northern Lights Casino vehicle. Sherry Bates, Executive Director of the shelter, told paNOW that the donation is greatly appreciated.&...

When started, the City of Prince Albert's campaign to raise $20 million in donations for the new arenas and aquatic centre was already halfway to its goal, thanks to a $10 million from Lake Country Co-op earlier this fall. At a launch held today inside the foyer of the Lake Country Leisure Centre, representatives from ...

A man accused of setting multiple vehicles on fire, as well as two people he knew personally, has been denied bail.Austin Redhead, 31, appeared by video when his case was discussed Friday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court. Over half a dozen members of his family were also present in the courtroom, including two...

A 46-year-old Prince Albert man is facing charges of trafficking in cocaine along with having proceeds of crime over $5,000 following a traffic stop on 15 Street East on Thursday. Prince Albert Police's Crime Reduction Team pulled a vehicle over in the 800 Block of 15 Street East and arrested the man for drug trafficki...

OTTAWA - The auditor general says the small business loan program the federal government rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't managed in a cost-effective way. Auditor general Karen Hogan says the Canada Emergency Business Account program wasn't managed with "due regard for value for money." The prog...

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has dismissed an appeal by a "deeply religious" British Columbia health executive who said he was wrongfully denied employment insurance after being fired three years ago for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Darold Sturgeon was fired as executive director of medical affa...

QUÉBEC - Quebec's anti-corruption unit released its annual report today, saying the past 12 months were busy. The unit, know as UPAC, says 19 people were charged in criminal cases and 18 people were convicted during the 12 months ending March 31, 2024, while 265 individuals or companies were fined. The number of...

TORONTO - An expert panel of doctors and researchers say Canada needs to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and take action before the next health emergency strikes. One of the six experts, Dr. Fahad Razak, says most scientists believe it's "only a matter of time" before another global health crisis hits. The p...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Conservative leader says comparing the Nuremberg trials or Nazi Germany to public health measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic is unacceptable and "deeply disrespectful to the memory of those who suffered" in the Holocaust. That's after video surfaced of Rustad saying his pa...

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is not providing Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine this respiratory virus season, citing low demand. It says the manufacturer requires a minimum order of its updated protein-based vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, which far exceeds the uptake by Canadians last year. The agency say...

Dziret'ái Pilot Training Program takes flightA new and exciting opportunity has launched in northern Saskatchewan to help Indigenous students become commercial pilots. The Dziret'ái Pilot Training Program aims to provide Indigenous students with the skills needed to succeed in the aviation industry. The D...

Breakfast is often called the most important meal of the day. Many studies have linked eating breakfast to good health, including better memory and concentration and lower levels of heart disease. So - you could say eating breakfast is actually...smart. Now, there's a new restaurant in Prince Albert that offers sensibl...

You've decided you want to become a registered nurse? Exciting! Nursing has so many career paths, there's a place for everyone to find their passion. Plus, registered nurses are in high demand, so by choosing this career, you're setting yourself up for opportunity, stability, and the ability to work almost anywhere. Wh...

The Saskatchewan NDP is reiterating its concerns about the Saskatchewan Marshals Service (SMS), which is scheduled to launch earlier than expected.The province's newest police force is expected to be up and running next summer.While recruiting has begun to fill the 70 new policing positions, the NDP says the Marshals S...

The court case of a woman accused of hitting and killing a nine-year-old Saskatoon girl in a crosswalk has been stayed due to delays.Taylor Ashley Kennedy was charged with impaired driving causing death in the 2021 crash that led to the death of Bayleigh Maurice. The nine-year-old girl was on her way to school, riding ...

OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is "calling a timeout" in the Canada Post strike, and asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to send about 55,000 employees back to work.Mackinnon says the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are at an impasse after a nearl...

After 10 months and 135 possible name suggestions, St. Frances Cree Bilingual School in Saskatoon will dawn a new name and that's reason to celebrate.The name selected is awâsisak kâ-nîmîhtocik- St. Francis School, the Cree portion of the name means 'children who dance.'"The name is not onl...

In their final home game before the Christmas break, the Prince Albert Raiders were looking to string together two wins for the first time in five games, along with a little revenge for their last loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings a week ago. With three goals from defenceman and another tipped in off a defenceman's shot,...

The Prince Albert Raiders are in a tight race in the Eastern Conference right now, sitting in ninth place and on the outside looking in for a playoff spot as the Christmas break looms. With games in hand over everyone ahead of them except for one team, and a key 6-3 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors in their last action,...

With 33 players invited to camp to make Team Canada's roster for the 2025 World Junior Hockey Tournament set to take place in Ottawa starting on Boxing Day, there will be a Prince Albert representative.Tanner Howe has made the roster 25-man roster announced earlier this afternoon. He started the season as the captain o...

Four years ago, the province of Saskatchewan had never had a national champion in U20 women's broomball. The Debden Roadrunners have now given the province three straight, and they are looking to make it four as they get set for the season to start this winter.With this year's national championships set for Val-d'Or, Q...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada Post operations to resume Tuesday: company Mail will begin moving again on Tuesday as Canada Post employees return to work for the first time in more than a month after the federal government pushed to end the stoppage. Lab...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Voters in the Liberal-held British Columbia riding of Cloverdale-Langley City go to the polls today to pick a new member of Parliament, in another test for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Liberal candidate Madison Fleischer, a local business owner, will face Conservative Tamara Jansen who previously held...

TORONTO - Canada's premiers are meeting in Toronto today, and cross-border trade is topping the agenda, on the heels of a tariff threat from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Trump is threatening to impose a 25 per cent import tariff on goods coming from Canada and Mexico when he takes office, until both countries sto...

Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste that had inundated their territorial waters. She thinks of the 2014 disaster often. "There are physical changes you ca...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has made payments in less than 10 per cent of the nearly 10,000 claims it has received since the remnants of Hurricane Debby hit the province in August, causing severe flooding and damage. In Montreal, which received a record-breaking 150 millimetres of rain during the storm, the govern...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government in Ottawa is set to unveil its fall economic update today, its first spending package since Donald Trump won the November presidential election. Ottawa is expected to blow past its deficit target, but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has said debt-to-GDP is still in decline. The update...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Health officials in the Gaza Strip say the death toll from the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas militants has topped 45,000 people. The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but it has said that more than half of the fatalities are...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean law enforcement authorities will request that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appear for questioning this week over his short-lived martial law decree as they expand a probe into whether his ill-conceived power grab amounted to rebellion. A joint investigative team involving pol...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean law enforcement authorities will request that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appear for questioning this week over his short-lived martial law decree as they expand a probe into whether his ill-conceived power this month grab amounted to rebellion. A joint investigative team in...