A teenage boy who advanced at police, while carrying a sawed off shotgun, was reminded in court the incident could have ended very differently and he very well could have been badly injured.In relation to the incident that happened last April in Prince Albert, as well as a separate gun related incident at Pelican Narro...

Two MLAs from Prince Albert and the nearby rural area are ready for expanded roles in government. Yesterday, Premier Scott Moe named Prince Albert - Northcote MLA Alana Ross to run three cabinet positions, while Eric Schmalz, the newly minted representative for Saskatchewan Rivers jumps right into two cabinet seats as ...

We now know the name of the financial institution that will be created with the merger of Diamond North, Cypress, and Prairie Centre Credit Unions. Prosperity Credit Union will come into effect Jan. 1, 2025. The new entity will serve over 30 locations across the province, including Big River, Debden, Prince Albert, Cho...

A joint effort to convince the federal government to put some money into Prince Albert's proposed event centre went well, said Mayor Greg Dionne. Dionne went to the nation's capital with Montreal Lake Cree Nation Chief Joyce McLeod to ask the feds to put $45 million into the building that would go into The Yard distric...

The Royal Canadian Legion branch in Montreal's Verdun borough meets once a week in a community centre space it rents by the hour, less than 500 metres from the elegant brick building it sold over a decade ago when maintenance costs got too high.After years of rising rents, a forced move and general instability, its mem...

This week, November 3-9, has officially been deemed as Skilled Trade and Technology Week by The Government of Saskatchewan to align with National Skilled Trade and Technology Week, proclaimed by Skills Canada. The importance of skilled trade and technology careers is clear as they have a big impact on our economy and a...

Northern fishermen are facing uncertainty due to unpredictable weather. That's according to Air Ronge resident Gordon Stomp, who has been a commercial fishmen for decades. Meteorologists are calling for a delayed winter in 2024 with the temperatures in the region as much as 10 degrees above normal for the rest of the w...

The run of warmer-than-normal weather will continue across the province for the remainder of the week. Meteorologist Danielle Desjardins of Environment and Climate Change Canada explained the weather has been warmer than average for the past couple of months on average. "It is slightly unusual to have temperatures...

With the final results from the American election trickling in, people from and currently living in Saskatchewan are weighing in.David Garrett lived in Prince Albert for 10 years before recently moving back to Pennsylvania, which was considered one of the deciding states. He noted voter pride was at an all time high an...

An altercation between a man and a woman on the Big Island Lake Cree Territory ended with the woman taken to hospital and the man behind bars. Pierceland RCMP said they were called ot a home in Big Island at around 3 p.m. on Nov. 2. When they arrived, they found an injured woman who was then taken to hospital by EMS wi...

OTTAWA - The registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada says from now on only judgments prepared in both English and French will appear on the court's website. The statement from the registrar is the latest development in a controversy over access to the top court's historical decisions in both official languages. Betwee...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck in northern Yukon, but Natural Resources Canada says there have been no reports of damage and none would be expected. The quake struck about 167 kilometres north of Keno, Yukon, and 519 kilometres from Whitehorse, just after noon Pacific Time at a depth of 27 kilometres. Natural Re...

OTTAWA - The federal government will apologize to Inuit in Nunavik for the killing of sled dogs between the mid-1950s until the late 1960s. In his opening remarks at the Inuit-Crown partnership committee meeting in Ottawa on Friday, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree said the government is preparin...

OTTAWA - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's promise to launch a mass deportation of millions of undocumented people has the Canadian government looking at its own border. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the issue is one of two "points of focus" for a recently revived cabinet committee to handle ...

MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says a "constitutional fight" between Quebec and Canada is tying up money the city badly needs to deal with its worsening homelessness problem. Plante is calling on the governments of Quebec and Canada to finalize a deal to free up what she said is $100 million ...

VANCOUVER - Employers and the union representing supervisors embroiled in a labour dispute that triggered a lockout at British Columbia's ports will attempt to reach a deal when talks restart this weekend. A spokesman from the office of federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon has confirmed the minister spoke with lead...

Canada Post has released of its annual Remembrance Day stamp issue, honouring the contributions of the farmerettes and Soldiers of the Soil during the...

Various Saskatchewan producer commissions hold their annual general meetings in January during the same week as the Western Canadian Crop Production S...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced his new cabinet. Among the changes will be a new leader in the agriculture portfolio. Daryl Harrison has been...

Chickpeas, lentils, beans and peas could be found in brownies, vegan meats and salad dressings which is beyond the usual bean salads and hummus. Chitr...

A pair of bills related to interoperability of farm equipment and right-to-repair have been passed in the Senate. Grain Growers of Canada Executive Di...

Each year, the Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan Champion Award recognizes an individual who has engaged consumers in agriculture and worked to build pu...

SEATTLE (AP) - A man has been arrested in connection with a spate of random stabbings over two days in Seattle, in which nine people were injured -- five of them on Friday afternoon, police said. "This incident was apparently one individual over a 38-hour period of time committing random assaults," Deputy Chi...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois' ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn issued the lengthy finding in a decree that he said appl...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines Friday while prosecutors assess the "the appropriate course going forward" in light of the Republican's presidential victory. Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump last year with plo...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines Friday after prosecutors said they need time to assess "the appropriate course going forward" after the Republican's presidential victory this week. Special Counsel Jack Smith charged T...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week's presidential election. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instruc...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week's presidential election. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instruc...