It is a walk to recognize those who have been lost. The second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit Plus Walk (MMIWG2S+) Walk in Melfort is coming up on May 3 at Memorial Gardens. A youth art installation will be set up as part of a project in collaboration with Grade 11 and 12 students...

RCMP are looking for some out-of-province suspects involved in a theft in Melfort. The suspects were spotted in the city on April 18, three weeks after a theft in which they stole about $5,000-8,000 worth of merchandise from the same business. Workers at the business recognized the suspects, confronted them, and they l...

Is there a deal to be made, or will there be a return to square one? Teachers across the province will determine the next step, as they vote next month on the provincial government's latest contract offer. The deal calls for an eight per cent wage increase over three years, and Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill has ca...

The Melfort Mustangs had a rousing sendoff on Thursday as they prepare for their Canterra Seeds final series against the Flin Flon Bombers. Fans greeted the team's bus as they departed for Flin Flon. The bus was escorted by emergency personnel complete with sirens.The Melfort Mustangs received plenty of support as they...

Battlefords MLA and Minister for Education Jeremy Cockrill is under fire for comments he made to a mother whose daughter passed away last year due to medical complications. During Question Period, MLA for Regina University Aleana Young shared a story about her constituent Taya Thomas coming to the legislature for a mee...

A program that brings music education to remote and underserved communities in Saskatchewan, is receiving a big financial boost. The Community Arts Mentorship Program (CAMP) has been named the first recipient of the Downie - Wenjack Blanket Fund Capacity Building Grant - and will receive $175,000 per year for four year...

It's not every day that a new airplane brings plenty of excitement, but for those who travel to the far north of Saskatchewan, it means more open doors and opportunities for the region. Last week, Rise Air announced it added a second ATR 42-500 aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop plane to its fleet. CEO of Rise Air Derek...

Métis organizations in Ontario and Alberta say they'll stay on the path toward self-government, despite the uncertain future of a contentious bill meant to do just that. The Métis Nation - Saskatchewan withdrew its support Wednesday for federal legislation designed to recognize Métis governments in...

Whether Saskatchewan teachers will accept the deal offered by the province is up in the air.At a virtual news conference on Wednesday morning, Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) President Samantha Becotte said that despite high hopes last week, the offer from the province did not address the STF's concerns. She ad...

The Saskatchewan government is helping the Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada (AMC) as it tries to grow the workforce in that sector.The province announced Thursday it had invested $300,000 to help the AMC create a mobile, virtual-reality skills lab. The lab is to visit school campuses and community events to promote...

VANCOUVER - Poland's president says members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, including Canada, must raise defence spending to three per cent of GDP to deter Russia's war in Ukraine from spreading. Andrzej Duda made the comments at a speech in Vancouver on Friday, a day ahead of his meeting with Prime Ministe...

OTTAWA - Liberal and NDP MPs are lamenting the loss of the longtime Conservative chair of the parliamentary committee on the status of women. Government members say they were disappointed to learn this week that Karen Vecchio would no longer be at the helm, after having first served as chair in 2017. The House of Com...

QUEBEC - The Quebec Liberal Party says its leadership race will begin next January and the winner will be chosen in June 2025. Former leader Dominique Anglade stepped down weeks after the 2022 provincial election, during which the party maintained official Opposition status but lost 10 seats. Marc Tanguay has served as...

OTTAWA - Federal officials in charge of the National Microbiology Lab are defending security protocols at the Winnipeg institution against accusations of incompetence from opposition MPs. The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada appeared before a parliamentary committee on relations between Canada and China, wher...

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal has announced a new vision for an old racetrack that the mayor says will be home to as many as 40,000 people. The federal and provincial governments, as well as the city will each pitch in $2 million for technical studies on the 95 hectares of land, part of which used to host the Hippodr...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The British Columbia Coroners Service says it will hold an inquest into the death of a man who died in a hail of police gunfire after starting a shootout with RCMP officers in Kamloops. The service says the inquest will begin on May 6 at the Kamloops law courts to determine the facts related to the de...

A change in consumer spending habits, lower commodity prices, and inflation all factor into Farm Credit Canada's (FCC) outlook for food and beverage m...

Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) expressed disappointment in several policy areas that were missed in today's federal budget. This include an extension t...

The Alberta government is making changes to the training pathway for Class 1 commercial drivers, and offering a new, farm-restricted Class 1 driver's ...

Providing accurate, balanced and current information is an important way to promote agriculture education in Canadian classrooms. Agriculture in the C...

A state-of-the-art milk concentration plant is under construction in Blackfalds, Alta. Dairy Innovation West (DIW) is the first of its kind in Canada....

One of the country's biggest agriculture shows will focus on ag tech. From Jun. 18 to 20, farmers, developers, industry professionals, and exhibitors ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers in former President Donald Trump 's hush money case shifted their attention Friday to picking alternates as jury selection resumed for a fourth day. The proceedings began again with the questionnaire phase of jury selection and 22 possible jurors were brought in. A second alternate was picked ju...

WASHINGTON (AP) - With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday's vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in t...

NEW YORK (AP) - A third panel of potential jurors will be questioned Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, drawing jury selection a step closer to completion in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. After a jury of 12 New Yorkers was seated Thursday, lawyers are now expected to turn their attention t...

CAPRI, Italy (AP) - The United States told the Group of Seven foreign ministers on Friday that it received "last minute" information from Israel about a drone action in Iran, Italy's foreign minister said. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who chaired the meeting of ministers of industrialized countrie...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, the Lithuanian president announced on Friday. Volkov was attacked in March outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where he liv...

Iran fired air defense batteries Friday and some flights were diverted or grounded after reports of explosions near a major airbase and nuclear site where drones were spotted. It was unclear if the country was under attack, but tensions are high after Iran's unprecedented missile-and-drone attack on Israel. The Israeli...