Update on May 1: Police confirmed Myra Linklater had been located safe and sound.-------The Prince Albert Police Service is asking for the public's assistance locating a 13-year-old girl.Myra Linklater was last seen on April 19, in the 1800 block of 14th Ave W.She is described as 5'2" tall, 130lbs, shoulder length...

A fatal shooting that occurred outside a Prince Albert home, was prompted in part by a $1,300 drug debt and was in retaliation to a group of people who had shown up to cause trouble.That's according to testimony heard on Tuesday at the Kyle Burns murder trial. In early December, 2021, Byron Bear was reportedly one of s...

Some serious charges have been laid in connection to a brawl that occurred earlier this month outside the Fuel Stop bar in Prince Albert.Dustin Jay William Shier, 28, appeared Tuesday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court, and is facing four counts of assault causing bodily harm.Shier, who has no criminal record, w...

Update: Late Tuesday afternoon, battlefordsNOW received an email from RCMP clarifying that the driver of the vehicle was not deceased as previously reported. They added "Saskatchewan RCMP media relations sincerely apologizes for this error."--A 51-year-old man from Spiritwood suffered serious injuries followi...

Kristopher Billette of Buffalo River Dene Nation, Byran Watson of Maple Creek and William 'Michael' Neuman of Canora have one tragic thing in common; they were all reported missing in 2023 and so far, have not been found. They are just some of the 2,533 individuals reported missing to Saskatchewan RCMP jurisdictions la...

Testy exchanges between the prime minister and his chief opponent ended with the Opposition leader and one of his MPs being ejected from the House of Commons on Tuesday - and the rest of Conservative caucus walking out of the chamber in protest.The unusually tense events saw Speaker Greg Fergus caution both Prime Minis...

Earlier this week, the Government of Saskatchewan announced a funding boost to organizations dealing with interpersonal violence but is it enough to tackle a growing issue in the province? The government's investment will see $42.6 million spread over three years ($14.2 million a year) to 34 community-based service org...

One of two people charged after a weapons incident at James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) earlier this month has been sentenced for one of his original nine charges. Razi Twist, 28, had eight of nine counts against him stayed at a court appearance April 29. He was sentenced to 30 days consecutive for use of a firearm in a c...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says the Canada Revenue Agency plans to audit the province for not paying carbon levies on home heating.Moe says the agency has indicated it will look at Saskatchewan's books to see how much the province owes in levies that weren't paid to Ottawa.The Saskatchewan Party government...

A man who committed a double murder at James Smith Cree Nation, has received two concurrent life sentences and is not eligible for parole for 16 years.Shawn Moostoos, 36, appeared Monday morning at Court of King's Bench in Melfort. The case was originally scheduled for trial, however guilty pleas were instead entered t...

OTTAWA - The first seniors to register with the new federal dental care plan can now start submitting claims. The government says about 1 million seniors are now eligible to receive dental care under the program. The program was conceived as part of a co-operative political pact between the Liberals and the New Democra...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives continue to out-fundraise other federal parties, bringing in millions more than all the others combined in the first three months of the year. The Tories raised nearly $10.7 million from more than 51,000 contributors between January and March. That's more than three times as good ...

Quebec's new rules banning the construction of shared gender-neutral bathrooms in schools come into effect today. The government directive requires that all new bathrooms and locker rooms in schools across the province be designated for either boys or girls. School service centres, however, do have to ensure any studen...

OTTAWA - Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks says the decision about whether to recriminalize drug use in British Columbia needs to be made urgently, but she's still waiting for more information from the province before making a call. The province is one year into a three-year pilot project to decriminali...

OTTAWA - Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader - and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - during a heated debate Tuesday. The Conservatives say Fergus did not apply the rules equally during a tense back and forth between Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Po...

HALIFAX - An independent committee released today its first report on how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives. The federal-provincial inquiry, known as the Mass Casualty Commission, submitted a final report last year that included 130 n...

Wildlife attacks on livestock are a significant problem for Manitoba producers with over 2,000 livestock lost each year. Farmers and ranchers have bee...

After a close race, four communities across Canada were named the winners of BASF's Growing Home program and are each awarded $25,000 to be used to fu...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has stated less than 33 per cent of the world's surface has mobile network coverage. That'...

The Wild Pig Summit was held this week in Brandon, Man. to help launch a strategy to control the feral pig population on the Prairies, as well as part...

Two organizations are continuing their efforts to deal with the world's hunger crises that are driven by conflict, climate, and economic challenges im...

The mild weather in parts of Saskatchewan means some farmers have already started seeding.Bev Pirio, a vice-president of the Agricultural Producers As...

LONDON (AP) - German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done "all that he reasonably could do" to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds. Becker fell far short of repaying his creditors in full, but Chief Insolvency and Companies ...

WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) - One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County officials said on Facebook that a tornado struck the city of about 700 people Tuesday evening, destroying ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion late Tuesday, with police carrying riot shields swarming the Ivy League campus, bursting into an administration building protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests. A statement releas...

BEIJING (AP) - The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post early Wednesday that authorities had "tentatively agreed" to allow him and his team to re...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A new congressional map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about district boundaries as the state prepares for fall congressional elections. The 2-1 ruling forbids the use of a map drawn up in Januar...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy won a special election Tuesday for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins. Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson for the upstate New York seat, helped by a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage in the district, which includes Bu...