The City of Melfort may not have received as much snow as first feared, but that doesn't mean there aren't challenges on the streets and sidewalks. An Alberta Clipper came through the province as March comes to a close and the system brought wet snow and strong wind. Melfort's Director of Public Works Kalyna Cipywnyk t...

The Humboldt District Health Foundation's Equip to Care campaign was a huge success. The 13th annual campaign raised $192,303.90 which will be used to purchase desperately needed equipment for the Humboldt District Health Complex. Foundation Executive Director Lorrie Bunko was thrilled with the response to the campaign...

The Nipawin Fire Department (NFD) has been busy this week with a couple of significant calls. Crews responded to a single-vehicle rollover just east of the village of Love Wednesday night. The following day, the NFD was called to a garage fire in Nipawin. Crews responded to this garage fire around noon on Thursday. (Ni...

The Town of Nipawin has awarded the tender for their outdoor multi-sport court. The tender was awarded to Watermaster Irrigation Services Ltd. at this week's council meeting, for an amount not exceeding $335,000 plus GST. General Manager of Leisure Services Chelsea Corrigan told northeastNOW the court will hold one bas...

The Town of Tisdale passed their operating and capital budget for 2025 at their council meeting this week. "This budget has been carefully developed to reflect the needs and priorities of our community, while ensuring fiscal responsibility and long-term sustainability," a town news release stated. Residents w...

The City of Humboldt is preparing for the snow and wind as winter refuses to go away quietly. An Alberta Clipper is expected to bring 10 cm of snow or more to the Humboldt area, along with wind gusts up to 70 km/h. That combination is expected to make life miserable for motorists across the province. Director of Public...

More than half a dozen industry groups in Saskatchewan came out this week supportive of the province's move to reduce its industrial carbon tax rate to zero. However, the Saskatchewan Environmental Society is on the other side of that coin."We think it's a very serious mistake. It's going to undermine Saskatchewan...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders were one of four CFL clubs to receive fines for exceeding the league's salary cap.The CFL said the Riders, B.C. Lions, Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Redblacks all exceeded the league's salary cap of $5.525 million in 2024. Saskatchewan was over the cap by $40,121, and will face a fine as a r...

Photo Credit: Cooper Tropeau Cooper Tropeau is our special guest on the Saskatchewan Country Closeup. We talk about his brand new song, "Prairi...

Sarah Tweidt has been putting out content about Prince Albert and the surrounding area on her social media since the pandemic."I just really fell in love with our province, and we have so many hidden gems that I really wanted to promote them."Now, she's doing that in an official capacity as she's in the midst...

Gangs in Saskatchewan are moving beyond major cities and into smaller communities, using social media and music to recruit young people. Women in gangs are also playing increasingly violent roles, Cpl. Tyler Zrymiak says. At the first annual Gang Prevention Symposium in North Battleford Thursday, Zrymiak of the Saskatc...

If 10 people are in a room that previously had a person in the infectious period of measles and had coughed in it, nine of those people would become infected. The disease, one of the most contagious in the world, has come to North Battleford. "This case was...confirmed last night," Dr. Mandiangu Nsungu, medic...

The Melfort Mustangs have advanced to the second round of this year's SJHL playoffs.With a 5-2 victory on Saturday night at home, Melfort eliminated the Kindersley Klippers in five games."The boys were resilient tonight, they were pretty upset after game four, so coming back home, I knew they'd get it done. The bi...

The Melfort Mustangs were 20 minutes away from Round 2 on Wednesday night, before a Kindersley Klippers comeback and overtime win forced a Game 5 tonight.Melfort is now looking to respond from their first loss of the postseason and advance to the second-round this evening at home."It's a huge game and we want to b...

Melfort Mustangs' defenceman Nolan Roberts has committed to a career after Junior A.The team announced that Roberts has committed to the University of Guelph, where he will suit up for the Gryphons next season."I'm super excited and thankful for my time here in Melfort and just everything that Blevins and the whol...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders were one of four CFL clubs to receive fines for exceeding the league's salary cap.The CFL said the Riders, B.C. Lions, Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Redblacks all exceeded the league's salary cap of $5.525 million in 2024. Saskatchewan was over the cap by $40,121, and will face a fine as a r...

The Melfort Mustangs were 20 minutes away from Round 2 Wednesday night, until they weren't.Melfort led the Kindersley Klippers 2-0 after two periods, before Kindersley came storming back.After the Klippers scored twice to tie it and send it to overtime, they needed just over five minutes in the extra frame to force a G...

The Melfort Mustangs won by the skin of their teeth Tuesday night in Game 3 against the Kindersley Klippers.Melfort held off a late rally by the Klippers, holding on for a 4-3 victory."In the first period we didn't stick to the way we play, in the D zone we were losing guys and not winning the hard area battles. W...

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With the completion of planting, optimizing seed investment is top of mind for farmers. But how do we know that the decisions made on the farm are making a difference to the bottom line? It all starts with data, and with digital agriculture technology, farmers are now able to make better, more informed decisions when f...

The Canadian Meat Council (CMC) has created a sustainability framework for the country's meat processing sector. The goal of Protein PACT (People, Ani...

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) urged the Canadian government to exempt pork from any retaliatory tariffs levied on U.S. products in respon...

SaskTel's 5G network is expanding to several local communities. The company has announced its newly expanded 5G network is coming to nearly 100 cell s...

A representative for the Canadian Red Cross says the situation on the ground in Myanmar is "still very dire and tragic" days after a massive earthquake that has killed at least 1,600 people. Canadian Red Cross senior operations manager Chiran Livera says teams of staff and volunteers made up of both internati...

HANOVER - Quebec Premier François Legault believes Europe's rearmament presents an "extraordinary opportunity" for his province as it tries to diversify trade away from the United States. Legault told a gathering in Hanover, Germany, that Europe plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defence...

HALIFAX - If U.S. President Donald Trump fails in his stated goal of annexing Canada through economic force, what would happen if he ordered the world's most powerful military to invade? Some experts and academics say it's a notion too preposterous to even contemplate. But Aisha Ahmad isn't one of them. "When you ...

FREDERICTON - Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction. Out of 759 pollinators - animals critical for food production and healthy ecosystems ...

OTTAWA - As the 2025 federal election campaign begins its second week, U.S. President Donald Trump and another round of tariffs expected on April 2 could again sidetrack most of Canada's political discourse. But making almost as much noise thus far have been the growing grumbles out of Conservative circles about Leader...

TORONTO - An Ontario judge rejected a Hudson's Bay restructuring agreement Saturday evening, increasing the likelihood that lenders may seek to push the company into receivership. In a written decision issued Saturday, Ontario Superior Court judge Peter Osborne said he declined to approve the agreement because it is &q...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state's Democratic attorney general to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally. Two lower courts had...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's president said Sunday that Tehran had rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to a letter from President Donald Trump over its rapidly advancing nuclear program. The remarks from President Masoud Pezeshkian represented the first official acknowledgment o...

BANGKOK (AP) - A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday, the USGS said, the latest in a string of aftershocks following Friday's devastating temblor. People in the streets of Mandalay screamed as the aftershock hit. Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake hit near the city, bringing down scores ...

Bangkok (AP) - The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the country's second-largest city. The country's military-led government said in a statement th...

BANGKOK (AP) - The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has jumped to nearly 700, according to the government, state-run media reported Saturday. MRTV reported that 694 people have now been found dead and another1,670 injured, with 68 others injured, according to a statement from the military-...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Voice of America can't be silenced just yet. A federal judge on Friday halted the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the eight-decade-old U.S. government-funded international news service, calling the move a "classic case of arbitrary and capricious decision making." Judge James P...