The latest inductees for the Prince Albert Arts Hall of Fame include a musician, a poet, a band and an educator.The 2024 class was announced on Thursday by the city's Arts Board.Brian Sklar - Performing Arts - Music categorySklar was born and raised in Prince Albert and is one of Canada's most awarded country music per...

The Northern Lights, Roughriders, open fields and blue skies; Saskatchewan is famous for many things - including erratic weather - especially on May long weekends. While heavy winds and rain in the forecast are proving to be the case again this year, many camping enthusiasts are still gearing up to make the most of it....

Picture it. A hot Saskatchewan summer day and you're cruising down SK-55 in a custom Nissan Murano. Feel the cool leather seats on your back, hear the amped up stereo blasting your favorite radio station - Beach 101.5, and see your worries disappear in the rear-view mirror.That dream can become a reality with the launc...

Even as Saskatchewan teachers resume bargaining with the province, the STF has a new mandate to keep sanctions going in the fall if no deal is reached. In a news release posted to their website on Thursday evening, the STF said that 83 per cent of teachers opted to vote on renewed sanctions in the fall. Of those that v...

The residents and village council of Cumberland House are fed up that the only road coming into the community is virtually impassable. Both Mayor Ferlin McKay and Deputy Mayor Veronica Favel say Highway 123 into Cumberland House is more of a back road than a highway, with soft gravel and deep mud making driving next to...

The Victoria Day long weekend is finally here, and if you're travelling and need to fuel up on the road, there's some good news for you. While the price per litre of gas can jump up before a long weekend, that won't be the case for the next few days, according to gas price analyst Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy. He said t...

After more than a year of negotations, the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teacher's Federation have reached a tentative deal.Friday's announcement came after three days of renewed talks that started Wednesday. "This has not been an easy process for anyone involved, but we have arrived at a mutually acc...

Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for parts of northwestern and north central Saskatchewan on Friday morning, which includes many popular lake destinations and camping spots. The weather agency said they're expecting 50 to 60mm of rain to fall in those areas and added that the wet weather will continue throu...

It's looking like it won't be the warmest May Long Weekend on record in Saskatchewan, with rain and thunderstorms expected in many areas.Environment Canada is calling for "unsettled conditions" across the province over the coming days.Pointing to Friday's forecast, meteorologist Justin Shaer said the weather ...

In his last minutes as Speaker in the Saskatchewan Legislature, Biggar-Sask. Valley MLA Randy Weekes decided to talk about harassment and bullying from the government, primarily from Meadow Lake MLA Jeremy Harrison who is also House Leader. That was just hours after he cut up his Sask. Party membership card and posted ...

Wildfire crews have reported no further growth in the wildfire that continues to burn southwest of Fort McMurray.Alberta Wildfire reports the lack of growth allowed crews to keep working on establishing fireguards overnight.The northeast Alberta city has seen rain in the last few days and Environment Canada forecasts m...

MONTREAL - It's 2:55 a.m. on a recent evening at Blue Dog bar, in Montreal's Plateau district. A bell rings, the bartender shouts, "last call," and a handful of people wander to the bar for one more drink. Slight variations of this scene occur across the city every night, as bars and venues are prohibited - m...

OTTAWA - A major international report on the safety of artificial intelligence says experts can't agree on the risk the technology poses - and it's unclear whether AI will help or harm us. The report, chaired by Canada's Yoshua Bengio, concludes the "future trajectory of general-purpose AI is remarkably uncertain....

VANCOUVER - Francis Silva watches the blood flow through astraw-like tube in his left arm to a dialysis machine where it's cleaned of toxins and returned to his body through a second tube. The 60-year-old chef endures the four-hour process every Tuesday, Thursday and Sundayat St. Paul's Hospital where a 42-bed unit is ...

Dialysis is one of the most resource-intensive therapies but patients with kidney failure have no other option, except for a kidney transplant. Nephrologists are trying to quantify the waste as they advocate for environmentally sustainable kidney care, noting the lifesaving therapy generates hundreds of litres of wast...

CALGARY - The bodies of four girls and women were found outside Calgary in 1976 and 1977. For nearly 50 years, their killings were unsolved. On Friday, RCMP identified Gary Allen Srery, an American sex offender, as the killer. He died in an Idaho prison in 2011. Here's a look at the police investigation: Feb. 12, 1976:...

If drought relief doesn't fall from above, grow it from below. That's how one Saskatchewan farm has survived and thrived during the past five years. T...

Novel Technologies Streams under the Food Waste Reduction Challenge has selected two businesses to receive financial support. Clean Works Inc. and Gen...

Spiritwood Stockyards has been fined a total of $325,000 for two workplace related incidents, including one that resulted in a man's death.The case wa...

A new Rural Ambassador Program will support current and aspiring women business owners with the resources, mentorship and networking opportunities the...

The Whitkow farmer who had his cattle seized after being charged for "unnecessary pain, suffering or injury" two years ago has pled guilty.In the spri...

A plant-based and plant protein company is winding down operations. In a recent news release on its website, Global Food and Ingredients Ltd. (GFI), s...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's three-man War Cabinet, has threatened to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza, a move that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on his far-right allies. His announcement on Saturday escalate...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgia's president on Saturday vetoed the so-called "Russian law" targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests. The law would require media and NGOs to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abro...

PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) - The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first court appearance Saturday as the nation's leader remained in serious condition recovering from surgery after surviving multiple gunshots, Slovak state media said. Fico, 59, was attacked as he greeted s...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Someone's plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds have gone up in smoke. The plants sprouted in a tulip garden outside the Capitol, WMTV-TV reported Thursday. Tatyana Warrick, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Administration, told Th...

DENVER (AP) - A Colorado man pleaded guilty Friday to a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a case of misplaced revenge caused by mistakenly tracking his stolen iPhone to the home. Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but prosecuted as an adult. He has been portray...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana judge who declared that "tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches" has cleared the way for the opening of a new restaurant, delighting a restauranteur following a legal battle. Martin Quintana, 53, has been trying for about three years to open his second The Famous Ta...