Prince Albert's Mayor says a para-transit funding agreement between municipalities and the provincial government is outdated and causing stress for operational planning. One of the resolutions brought forward by the city at this week's Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) convention in Saskatoon was to ...

Prior to being arrested in Saskatoon last week, a youth who was in breach of a curfew and over 100 kilometres away from his approved residence refused to exit a vehicle and flashed a gun at police.These were among the details heard during the 17-year-old's bail hearing on Wednesday at Prince Albert Provincial Court.On ...

Preparations are underway in the federal riding of Prince Albert for advanced voting to take place this long weekend.Returning Officer Don Vernon Mah said advanced polling runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on:Friday, April 18Saturday, April 19Sunday, April 20 Monday, April 21 There are also advanced polling stations in Melfor...

The Prince Albert Police Service said it is encouraged by new provincial legislation that amends the Safe Public Spaces (Street Weapons) Act to include fentanyl, methamphetamine, and hypodermic needles as regulated items.A statement provided to paNOW was made in response to this week's announcement from the provincial ...

UPDATE: Police have confirmed that Jana Laliberte has been found deceased. They will not be releasing any further details. -----Emotions are raw as a search is underway on Red Pheasant Cree Nation for 33-year-old Jana Laliberte, who was last seen April 5. "It's a really overwhelming time for the family, so we're j...

The provincial government says reports of specific problems in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Regina General Hospital aren't true.The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) claimed there was a shortage of ventilators in the unit, and told Global News that mothers and babies were having to be moved out of th...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday as it waits to get a clearer picture of how global trade uncertainty is going to impact the Canadian economy.The central bank held its policy rate steady at 2.75 per cent, the first time it has left the key rate unchanged following seven c...

Claire Haynes remembers the first and only time she dipped a paddle made of her own hands into the water. "We were out on (Lac La Loche) and I couldn't wipe the smile off my face," she said of her experience as a first year high school student. "I was so proud of myself, and I felt so accomplished."...

The Saskatchewan home sales forecast is telling a much different story than what is being realized across Canada. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) downgraded its forecast for home sales this year, while it also reported Tuesday the number of homes that changed hands across the country in March fell 9.3 per c...

The Government of Saskatchewan introduced legislation this week that would classify fentanyl, methamphetamine and hypodermic needles as categories of "street weapons."The amendments to the Safe Public Spaces (Street Weapons) Act were introduced on Monday, and the government said the act is expected to pass du...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Round 2 of federal leaders' debate tonight The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will square off for a second and final leaders' debate tonight in Montreal, after an initial French-language faceoff on Wednesday. Libe...

HALIFAX - The worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history began almost five years ago, shortly after a Nova Scotia man brutally assaulted his common-law wife. Lisa Banfield was kicked, punched and choked by her partner of 19 years on the night of April 18, 2020. She was left with fractured ribs and vertebrae but man...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has made a move it hopes will lower the price of gas in the province - but observers say consumers are unlikely to benefit at the pump. They say the province has faced pressure to act since the federal government scrapped the consumer carbon price, which applied across much of the rest ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's securities regulator says a recent two-day operation to identify victims of a specific type of cryptocurrency fraud has found 89 people who were drained of more than $4 million in assets. The B.C. Securities Commission says the agency brought together regulators, police, crypto trading pl...

Liberal Leader Mark Carney's French language skills will be put to the test, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek to turn his numbers around, when the five main federal party leaders square off in Montreal tonight in the first of two debates ahead of election day on April 28.The two-hour French-language d...

RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports is warning travellers at Vancouver's airport of flight delays over what it says are "resource constraints." Nav Canada says in a social media post that passengers need to check the status of their flights with their airlines before ...

The Saskatchewan Beef Expo provides meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities that prepare young producers for success in the beef industry The even...

Two new life-sized horse models are enhancing the educational experience for veterinary students' practical skills in assisting pregnant horses and th...

Grain companies have not been pleased with either railways' ability to meet hopper car orders this winter. Mark Hemmes with Quorum Corp monitors railw...

A fun and interactive program is available to help farm families start those important conversations about safety. The BASF Safety Scouts program prov...

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) have done something they haven't done in a long time. APAS applauded the positive steps ...

The Global Agriculture Technology Exchange (Gate) Capital Campaign has secured another $13 million towards its new facility in Winnipeg, Man. The fund...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists' fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) - Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged with murder. It's the second time this year a group of correctional officers in the state was indicted for a death behind bars. Other prisoners say several guar...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he the administration must try to "purge" ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian state television confirmed on Wednesday that the second round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would be held. The talks will be mediated by Oman, as they were last weekend in the sultanate's capital of Muscat, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Maine's education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on s...

LONDON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that "the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman." The ruling means that ...