Claiming the provincial government is hiding an active Tuberculosis outbreak, the Saskatchewan NDP is calling for better reporting and more transparency.Keith Jorgenson, Associate Shadow Health Critic, met with reporters in Prince Albert on Thursday."This is a very serious disease," he said. "Keeping thi...

Ahead of the Easter long weekend, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways is reminding motorists to follow the posted detour signs on Highway 3 over the Red Deer River near Hudson Bay. The ministry issued the warning due to the ongoing winter bridge repair project. "The detour uses Rural Municipality of Hudson Bay N...

Wet snow and ice continue weighing heavily on structures in the province not meant to handle such weight.For the third time this month, a roof has collapsed. This time at Sauder's Home Hardware in Melfort, where part of the garden centre roof gave way Thursday night. Fortunately, no one was inside at the time. "Du...

Fundraising continues for new playground equipment at Maude Burke School in Melfort. Playground chair Ashley Toews told northeastNOW the current playground is divided into two divisions, so many of the students don't play together. The younger students don't have equipment that moves, including teeter-totters or items ...

An attempted murder charge has been laid after a shooting on Red Earth Cree Nation. Carrot River and Nipawin RCMP received a report about the incident on Tuesday. Officers responded and found an injured man, who was taken to hospital by EMS with serious injuries. The investigation determined an altercation happened bet...

Update 10:30p.m.: The suspect vehicle was located by police in Melfort and suspects were taken into custody. ----On April 1, around 5 p.m., the Melfort RCMP received a call about a break and enter in progress to a property in the rural area near Kinistino. Police responded to the area immediately and are actively makin...

Claiming the provincial government is hiding an active Tuberculosis outbreak, the Saskatchewan NDP is calling for better reporting and more transparency.Keith Jorgenson, Associate Shadow Health Critic, met with reporters in Prince Albert on Thursday."This is a very serious disease," he said. "Keeping thi...

You will treasure that egg forever. That's what Rona Painter said as she recalled the collection of Ukrainian pysanky Easter eggs passed down to her by her own Baba - delicate heirlooms rich with history, colour, and care. "They are beautiful. We got to divide them up between all the grandkids, and we all have so...

The topic of death is an uneasy one for many people, but one La Ronge resident is hoping to make it less taboo and more accepted. Death Cafes are group-led discussions on death and dying over a cup of coffee and dessert. They're mostly held in major cities, but when Colin Jackson moved back to northern Saskatchewan fro...

The approval of two uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan is helping the sector pick up some momentum. Two mines were given the green light from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission earlier this year. Denison Mines Corp. received approval on Feb. 19 to build its Wheeler River Project, and NexGen Energy Ltd. was appr...

A total of 27 athletes, coaches, officials and support staff with Saskatchewan ties represented the province at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Italy. They were recognized Thursday by the Government of Saskatchewan, Sask Sport, the Coaches Association of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Spor...

Saskatchewan students could soon be learning how to save lives in the classroom.Beginning in the 2026-27 school year, school divisions across the province will have the option to offer CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) training through the CardiacCrash program. The initiative is a partnership between the S...

The Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN) Scouts have written themselves into the history books. The Junior A hockey club claimed the first-ever Alberta Division title within the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL) Premier after downing the Calgary Bandits 6-3 in Game 3 of the best-of-three finals on Tuesday in Calgary...

Carrot River continued its wrestling display throughout the month of March, picking up medals at every age group in both school and club provincials.From March 13-14, five wrestlers from the high school went to provincials in Saskatoon where the girls' team went on to win the provincial championship at the 3A level. Pa...

The Melfort Mustangs hosted their annual Spring Camp this past weekend, with one of the days falling on the club's Game 5 loss in Battlefords.With the organization's first-round exit, as well as eight players graduating (aging out), the focus has now turned to the future."Overall, the camp went very well. It's alw...

The Nipawin Hawks Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) season ended on Monday with a 5-2 loss to Weyburn giving the Red Wings a four games to two first round series victory.After trading wins over the first four games, Weyburn won games five and six on route to the final four and eliminating Nipawin. The Hawks demi...

A former member of the Humboldt Broncos has committed to playing post-secondary hockey.Defenceman Oakley McIlwain will play with the Red Deer Polytechnic Kings, coming this fall.McIlwain played parts of three seasons in Humboldt, beginning in the 2023/24 season.To start this year, the 20-year-old was part of the Bronco...

The Hawks are in Weyburn Monday facing elimination from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) playoffs for the first time.Nipawin lost game five 6-1 at the Centennial Arena on Saturday night giving the Red Wings a one game lead in the series and a chance to move on at home. Hawks Head Coach Tad Kozun said he is ...

At Prairie North Co-op (PNC) we often say that we are proud to serve our members with products and services that help build, feed, fuel and grow the communities in which we live and do business. Now we can add "help keep our members and communities safe' through our commitment to a strong safety culture to that li...

It's a rewarding experience filled with unconditional love and the opportunity to change the life of someone who is blind. Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Guide Dogs is urgently looking for volunteers to raise future guide dogs for people who are blind, Deafblind, or have low vision."There's a hug...

At Prairie North Co-operative, the vision is to be the trusted first choice in the community. Sometimes achieving that vision requires thinking outside the box and taking an innovative approach to problem solving. In 2019, the Prairie North Co-op Agro Fuel team began to offer a number of bulk oil products to its rural ...

Protein Industries Canada announced a new project in partnership with AGT Foods and Sweet Nutrition, based in Saskatoon, Sask. The purpose is to creat...

Lake Country Co-op has announced that construction of Phase 2 for their Agro site development in the Rural Municipality of Prince Albert will begin th...

Animal welfare enforcement services are now under the wing of a new organization. The program is being delivered by the Saskatchewan Animal Enforcemen...

TORONTO - After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, nearly 300,000 Ukrainians were welcomed in communities across Canada as part of an emergency visa program that allowed those fleeing the war to temporarily work and study in the cou...

MONTREAL - Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the Cross processions. In Montreal, several hundred peopl...

A leaked transcript of a meeting between Indigenous leaders and British Columbia Premier David Eby, about his plan to suspend the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA, shows them accusing him of "absolute betrayal" a...

VANCOUVER - Harjot Rai had three minutes to make his PowerPoint pitch. The subject? His cringing friend, Matt White. And the audience was a far cry from executives in a corporate boardroom. Instead, it was 150 strangers at the Hollywood Theatre in Vanc...

VANCOUVER - Up until someone started using bear spray on unsuspecting victims trying to sell their Pokémon trading cards online, Vancouver police say they weren't aware of the resurgent collectible trend. Sgt. Ryan Campbell says thefts occurred on fiv...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off western Vancouver Island. A three-judge pane...

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's parliament on Friday elected Min Aung Hlaing, a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as the country's new president. The move m...

HAVANA (AP) - The Cuban government said Thursday it would release 2,010 prisoners in a move that comes while the Trump administration puts extreme pressure on the island's government with a suffocating oil blockade. The announcement said ...

After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, "I was just talking to the president," according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods' arrest on a DUI charge. The phone conversation was n...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army's top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the United States wages a war against Iran. Gen. Randy Georg...

DENVER (AP) - A Colorado appeals court ruled Thursday that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that sought to prove fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced because a judge wrongly punished her for statements protected as f...

Tiger Woods formally turned down the Ryder Cup captaincy Wednesday as he steps away from golf activities, and a Florida judge approved his motion to leave the country to seek treatment. The developments come one day after Woods entered a not guilty ple...