For the first time in its 15 year history, the High School Juried Art Show Gala was held at the EA Rawlinson Centre.The theatre was filled Wednesday night with young artists, supporters, and special dignitaries. In total 10 separate awards were handed out.Normally, the gala event is held in the tighter confines of the ...

A man found deceased at a home near La Ronge had incurred over 200 injuries including a fatal stab wound to the heart.Those were the findings of a detailed autopsy report presented on Thursday to the jury at the Mary Bird murder trial at Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert.The 24-year-old is alleged to be responsibl...

A series of beaver dams clogging the Shell River north of Prince Albert will be removed later this week. On Friday, the RM of Buckland will be removing dams from the river and according to Lillian Jacobson, the RM's Division 6 councillor, they've contacted a third-party company to safely remove them. "We have hir...

A look into a number of incidents of drivers opting to run from police rather than pull over was discussed by the Prince Albert Police Commission at the board's monthly meeting on Tuesday. The Prince Albert Police Service tracked a 74 per cent increase between 2024 and 2025, with a total of 377 incidents last year. Th...

Girls between the ages of 15 and 18 are being encouraged to apply for a four-day firefighting experience camp in La Ronge this July. Camp Molly, which is relatively new to Western Canada but has been active in Ontario for many years, is about providing an opportunity to meet and engage with strong female role models i...

Wild rice is an important economic crop for First Nations and Métis people across Western Canada. The industry is particularly significant in Northern Saskatchewan, where approximately 70 per cent of the Canadian crop originates. Considered a sacred grain to Indigenous Peoples for centuries, it was first introdu...

Residents across parts of Saskatchewan are seeing, and hearing, something unusual this week: flashes of lightning followed by the low rumble of thunder during a snowstorm.The rare phenomenon, known as thundersnow, is happening thanks to an unusual storm system that took an equally unusual path.The system began in Monta...

Saskatchewan boaters heading into the 2026 season will face new federal licensing requirements, including renewals every five years and a new service fee.Transport Canada introduced the changes at the end of 2025 as part of an overhaul to Canada's pleasure craft licensing system, which applies to recreational boats wit...

Wind and snowfall warnings from Environment Canada blanketed much of Saskatchewan on Thursday morning as a spring snowstorm makes its way into the province.Areas around Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Davidson, Outlook and Rosthern were included in the snowfall warning area, with Environment Canada saying 15-20 centimetres o...

A Saskatchewan-based, large-scale farming and ranching business has filed for creditor protection. According to a letter sent to landowners on Apr. 21, Monette Group made the filing under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). The letter, obtained by farmnewsNOW, was signed by Darryl Monette and stated the ...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s Indigenous Relations minister says two First Nations nearing the end of their treaty process have developed "accommodation packages" with some neighbouring nations, but there's still more work to do. The Union of British Columbia Indi...

VANCOUVER - The federal government has made an application to exclude some evidence over national security risks at the trial of Iain Hunt, whose wife was reported missing in 2021 from their home in Port Moody, B.C. The Attorney General of Canada says...

VANCOUVER - Former RCMP officer William Majcher says he wants to get back home to his family and hopes for a not guilty finding on a charge alleging he prepared to threaten a B.C. resident to convince him to return to China. Majcher is accused in B.C....

WASHINGTON - Canada's top envoy to Washington has apologized for sending an English-only invitation to members of Parliament. At a committee meeting in Ottawa today, Canada's Ambassador to the United States Mark Wiseman said it was an "unacceptable err...

OTTAWA - The RCMP says it has charged a consultant with fraudulently overbilling the federal government. An RCMP news release says 62-year-old Andrew McDermott and his company, AM Government Consulting Inc., face two counts of fraud over $5,000. The re...

A preliminary report into the La Guardia Airport crash that killed two Canadian pilots last month says system failures and communication issues played a part in the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board report shows a surveillance system d...

Affordability is key for consumers right now, but the high cost of living isn't enough for people in Saskatchewan to stop asking, "Where's the beef?" ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced the creation of a new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations leading up to the 2026 Joint Revie...

A Saskatchewan-based, large-scale farming and ranching business has filed for creditor protection. According to a letter sent to landowners on Apr. 21...

Canadian Western Agribition (CWA) increased the Saskatchewan economy by $151.3 million in 2025, according to a recent economic impact study. Praxis Co...

Cargill's canola processing facility in Regina, Sask. is now operational. The plant can process 1 million metric tonnes of canola each year. It increa...

The Water Security Agency (WSA) in Saskatchewan provided an update to the spring runoff outlook for 2026. WSA continued to closely monitor conditions ...

Washington (AP) - President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House on Thursday. Trump said the meeting between the ambassadors of ...

FIFA's resale site has four tickets on sale for the World Cup final for just under $2.3 million each. The $2,299,998.85 seats for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, are located behind a goal in the lower ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Two groups exchanged gunfire inside a food court Thursday at the Mall of Louisiana, killing one person and wounding five more, police said. Authorities had initially said as many as 10 people were injured, but the ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa. Leo also as...

ROME (AP) - Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming World Cup following a suggestion to that effect by a Trump administration official. Iran has not withdrawn from the Worl...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Justice's internal watchdog said Thursday that it is reviewing the department's compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The review from the inspector general's office...