By the end of the week, more RCMP officers in Saskatchewan will be wearing body-worn cameras while on patrol, but it's unlikely municipal police officers in Prince Albert will be wearing them any time soon.Police Chief Patrick Nogier said the technology is a topic of conversation for the police service but budgetary re...

Jennifer Mauvieux, Kim Schick and Amy Bryksa have been friends for over two decades and credit dance as one of the reason their bonds has remained strong.All three are now instructors at their own dance studios, and have been brought together again this weekend at the Prince Albert Festival of Dance - a competition the...

A month-long drug trafficking investigation by the Prince Albert Police Service Crime Reduction Team (CRT) has resulted in a pair of arrests and the seizure of over 70 grams of cocaine and meth.On April 3, CRT members with the assistance of the Saskatchewan Trafficking Response Team (STRT) and Canine Unit, conducted a ...

Come this fall, incumbent Randy Hoback will have been an elected official in Prince Albert for 17 years.Having begun representing the electoral district in 2008, Hoback has been subsequently re-elected every term since.He once again believes that people want a Conservative government and want to see a change away from ...

Liberal Leader Mark Carney and the NDP's Jagmeet Singh expressed support Friday for federal spending to ensure a strong national public broadcaster, a notion Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dismissed as something Canada simply can't afford.On the federal election trail, Carney and Singh each said a healthy CBC/Rad...

The owner of a truck driver training school is hoping a proposal she submitted to the government will help reinvigorate interest and safety in the commercial driving industry.Melissa Bohse of MTS Training School in North Battleford felt compelled to come up with a solution after funding cuts by both levels of governmen...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he remains concerned with U.S. tariffs on Canadian products but thinks talking with American officials helped Canada avoid a worse outcome."Where we found ourselves on Liberation Day was not the best position, but a far better position than many other countries around the world,...

Grade 12 students in Saskatchewan won't have to worry about cramming for their final exams.The province announced that it will be winding down the provincial examination program at the end of August 2025, saying it creates a more equitable system for Grade 12 students in the province. Saskatchewan is currently the only...

The third season of the docuseries Guardians of the North will premiere next week. The docuseries follows wildland firefighters in Saskatchewan's Indigenous and northern communities while they protect the people, property and resources of the North. The season three premiere will air on April 8 at 10 p.m. CST on Citytv...

The Humboldt Broncos Memorial Committee has issued an update on a pair of projects that will honour the 2017-18 team ahead of Sunday's seventh anniversary of the tragic bus crash. The committee issued a news release on Friday to let the public know about the progress of the two projects. They stated in the release they...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. In a decision rendered earlier this week, the province's high court said the negative impacts of random...

HALIFAX - Recruiters say there's been a surge of interest from American doctors considering moving to Canada since the election of U.S. president Donald Trump in November. Katrina Philopoulos, recruitment director for Nova Scotia Health, says 27 American doctors are in serious negotiations to move, which to date has re...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Federal party leaders are campaigning in Quebec today Party leaders will be in Quebec today as the second week of the federal election campaign comes to a close. Leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre will hold a press ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is expected to release employment figures for March today. Economists polled by Reuters expect a gain of 10,000 jobs in the month, and for the unemployment rate to rise by a tenth of a point to 6.7 per cent. RBC Economics expects the economy instead shed 10,000 jobs last month. Canada's labou...

TORONTO - An organization tasked with managing Canada's nuclear waste found one site to store millions of bundles of radioactive used fuel for thousands of years hundreds of metres underground - and now it's looking for a second. As the Nuclear Waste Management Organization begins the regulatory process for a deep geol...

OTTAWA - Party leaders will be in Quebec today as the second week of the federal election campaign comes to a close. Leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre will hold a press conference in Trois-Rivières, Que., this morning. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will make an announcement and visit a local business ...

CN Rail said it moved more than 2.85 million metric tonnes (MMT) of grain from Western Canada and 2.98 MMT nationally. CN Executive Vice-President and...

The Manitoba government is promising $150 million for the agricultural sector to help handle tariffs imposed by the United States and China. The provi...

President Donald Trump indicated that Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) compliant goods, which includes Canadian-produced canola and canol...

Falling honey prices, tariff uncertainty, limited export options and dependence on imported queen bees are creating mounting pressure for producers he...

Expected runoff in northern Saskatchewan is expected to be below normal due to dry fall conditions and a below normal snowpack to date.The Water Secur...

The group that advocates for rural municipalities has outlined its members' needs for the next federal government. The Saskatchewan Association of Rur...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wayne Gretzky witnessed Alex Ovechkin scoring his 893rd goal to move one back of tying his NHL record, as the Canadian great made his first in-person appearance during this chase. Gretzky said it was important to "the integrity of the game" to make sure he was there in case Ovechkin broke hi...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alex Ovechkin did not take long to move one goal away from tying and two from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record. Ovechkin beat Spencer Knight 3:52 into the Washington Capitals' home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night. He took a pass from Dylan Strome behind the net and banked the pu...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alex Ovechkin has scored his 893rd career goal to move one back of tying and two away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record. Ovechkin beat Spencer Knight 3:52 into the Washington Capitals' home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night. He moved closer to making hockey history with Gretzk...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts, while a lawsuit continues. The justices split 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the three liberal justices in dissent. The cu...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday. The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County board of supervisors, would be the largest in history and have long-lasti...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge agreed on Friday to block the Trump administration from dismantling an independent agency that distributes grant money to community development groups in Latin American and Caribbean countries. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that the administration doesn't have the authority t...