A friendly, yet very competitive event that helps raise needed food and money for the Prince Albert food bank will make its return this week.The second annual Hunger Games takes place Dec. 18 at the Prince Albert Grand Council Urban Centre. Ric Sanderson, Director of Justice for the Prince Albert Grand Council's Justic...

Proponents of a homeless shelter will take another stab at trying to convince city council to approve a downtown location for the facility.Back in October, former councillor Tara Lennox-Zepp made a motion for a public meeting regarding the zoning of a unit block on 15th Street East for a shelter. The council agenda for...

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 ...

Tears and cries filled a packed Saskatoon provincial courtroom on Friday as Judge Jane Wooten stayed the case of a woman who struck and killed a nine year old girl on a crosswalk in Saskatoon in 2021, citing delays."You're forever going down as the white judge who upheld white supremacy," one woman bellowed.O...

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...

Santa in the North, an annual endeavor organized by Rise Air, delivered more gifts than ever to young children and teens this month. "We are in a very unique position as we are not only 100 per cent Indigenous-owned by the communities that Rise Air serves, but from the perspective of doing the right thing and supp...

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...

A new program is offering up to $25,000 to help clinics attract more veterinarians to rural British Columbia.Businesses can apply for a portion of the...

Maximizing profits in an economic downturn. That was the focus of a presentation at Grain Expo during Canadian Western Agribition. Dean Klippenstein, ...

Canada's Farm Show (CFS) in Regina, Sask. is shaking things up in 2025. The event, usually held in June, is now moving to Mar. 18 to 20. The show is b...

Students pursuing an education in agriculture have a chance to earn some cash to help pay for it. The 2025 Agriculture Student Scholarship includes fo...

Saskatchewan 4-H Clubs are benefiting from a program from Farm Credit Canada (FCC). The 2024 FCC 4-H Club Funds will go to 34 clubs who will receive u...

Five research projects will focus on the difficult issue of weeds in pulses. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG) will provide over $3.67 million for weed...

Palestinian health officials said Monday the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war, now in its 14th month, topped 45,000 people. This comes as 52 dead arrived at hospitals across the bombed-out strip over the past 24 hours, including a family of four, in Gaza City overnight, according to Palestinian medics. The Israel-H...

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...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - West Africa's regional bloc, ECOWAS, approved Sunday an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations after a nearly yearlong process of mediation to avert the unprecedented disintegration of the grouping. "The authority decides to set the period from 29 January, 2025 to 29 July 2025 as a transiti...

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) - Freddie Freeman's historic walk-off grand slam ball from Game 1 of the World Series has sold for $1.56 million at auction. The bidding at SCP Auctions went into the late hours of Saturday night, according to a statement from the auction house on Sunday. It didn't say who bought the ball. Fr...