Tag Archives: Environment

The threat of Dutch Elm Disease is something that cities around Saskatchewan have to monitor or they run the risk of the disease running rampant through their elm tree population. While Prince Albert ...

It's considered the Holy Grail of skywatching, and the only thing better than seeing the northern lights in real life is capturing your own mesmerizing photo of the atmospheric phenomenon. Scott Aspin...

Black smoke from floor to ceiling and temperatures exceeding 800 degrees fahrenheit. That's how Jim Arnold, the fire chief at Candle Lake is describing the inside conditions during Monday's fire at th...

One of the biggest benefits of oriented strand board mills is their ability to take remnant wood from other operations and turn what might be something considered defective and make a building product...

Almost a month after being told to grab their belongings and leave their community, residents of Sandy Bay will soon be returning home.At 8a.m. this morning, the evacuation order that was issued on Au...

The scorching heat on Sunday toppled a number of heat records around Saskatchewan.Many of the records had been standing for more than four decades.According to preliminary figures from Environment Can...

All over Saskatchewan during the summer, people have been complaining about the amount of gophers they've been seeing this year. Surprisingly, what you are seeing is likely not a gopher, but actually ...

Routine testing on bats came up positive on two bats in the rural area northeast of Prince Albert recently. Dr. Peter Surkan of Park Range Veterinary Services said that it is not that unusual to find ...

You may have noticed over the course of the last few weeks that wasps have a larger presence in your yard or at the park, and it's a trend that's being noticed across the Prairies. Right now, wasps ar...

The northern lights were dazzling all across Saskatchewan this weekend.The lights, or aurora borealis, are caused when the Sun blasts charged particles (electrons and protons) into space, which is cal...