Santa Stop
Santa makes special stop at Jim Pattison Children's Hospital
Santa is making sure everyone is in the holiday spirit this Christmas, especially those away from home.On Thursday, he visited the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital (JPCH) as part of the JPCH Foundation's (JPCHF) 'Project Holiday Joy' initiatives. President and CEO of the foundation, Brynn Boback-Lane said the visit is ...
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Family fun
Massive snow shark lands on Prince Albert family's yard
A Prince Albert family is swimming in festive spirit.Using ice and now, Steven Fraser and his three young daughters carved a massive shark sculpture, which now sits prominently outside their house on Lacroix Cres. Fraser revealed to paNOW the family had done something similar several years ago when they lived at La Ron...
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Singh says NDP will bring forward a non-confidence motion to bring government down
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Award for Melfort player
Melfort's Paul Peterson wins Sask. Games Council Award
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Battle of the Badges
Over 800 pounds of food donated to Melfort Food Bank after Battle of the Badges
Dec 18, 2024
Northeast News
Melfort UFA opens
Melfort UFA cardlock opens
The new UFA Cardlock in Melfort is now officially open. The site is along Highway 41 south of the city. "The Melfort location is strategically positioned to meet the growing demand for petroleum products in northeast Saskatchewan, an area with a strong agricultural focus," the UFA news release said. UFA Presi...
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Award for Melfort player
Melfort's Paul Peterson wins Sask. Games Council Award
A Melfort athlete has won a Saskatchewan Games Council medal. Team Lakeland basketball player Paul Peterson has received a 2024 Lorne Lasuita Saskatchewan Games Athletic Award following his participation in the 2024 Saskatchewan Summer Games in Lloydminster. The award is given to one male and one female athlete who &qu...
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Cannabis decision
Administration recommends against limiting the number of pot shops in Melfort
The City of Melfort is considering a request to limit the number of cannabis retail stores in the city. In October, Into the Weeds Cannabis and Saskabuds Cannabis requested that Council consider limiting the number of cannabis retail stores in Melfort to two. The two pot shops argued that based on Melfort's population ...
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Fireworks
Fireworks at Nipawin Winter Lights on Friday
A huge event on Friday for the Nipawin Winter Lights. The drive-thru for the lights spectacular will be at the regular time at Nipawin & District Regional Park on Friday, from 6 to 9 p.m. Spokesperson Craig Sutherland said incoming traffic will be stopped at about 8:45 to allow the last groups of vehicles to go thr...
Dec 19, 2024
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SHA fined
Saskatchewan Health Authority fined after workplace injury in Kelvington
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has been fined after a workplace incident in Kelvington last year. The organization pleaded guilty to one violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020 in Rose Valley Provincial Court Dec. 11. The charges were laid after an incident on May 11, 2023, in Kelvington. A...
Dec 19, 2024
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Battle of the Badges
Over 800 pounds of food donated to Melfort Food Bank after Battle of the Badges
The winner of the second annual Battle of the Badges in Melfort has been announced, but ultimately the winner is the Melfort Food Bank and its clients. The battle between the Melfort RCMP and Melfort Fire Department is over, and it was announced that 814 pounds of food was delivered to the food bank. The organization w...
Dec 18, 2024
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Saskatchewan
Santa Stop
Santa makes special stop at Jim Pattison Children's Hospital
Santa is making sure everyone is in the holiday spirit this Christmas, especially those away from home.On Thursday, he visited the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital (JPCH) as part of the JPCH Foundation's (JPCHF) 'Project Holiday Joy' initiatives. President and CEO of the foundation, Brynn Boback-Lane said the visit is ...
11h ago
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Family fun
Massive snow shark lands on Prince Albert family's yard
A Prince Albert family is swimming in festive spirit.Using ice and now, Steven Fraser and his three young daughters carved a massive shark sculpture, which now sits prominently outside their house on Lacroix Cres. Fraser revealed to paNOW the family had done something similar several years ago when they lived at La Ron...
12h ago
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Leadership
Riders coaching staff remains mostly unchanged for 2025
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are keeping things mostly consistent when it comes to Cory Mace's coaching staff.J.C. Sherritt is the only member from the 2024 group to not return with reports indicating he has accepted the role of defensive co-ordinator for Mark Kilam's staff with the Edmonton Elks.Travis Brown joins the...
Dec 19, 2024
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wages and class complexity
Sask. teachers, government wrap binding arbitration hearing
The binding arbitration hearing between the Teachers' Bargaining Committee and the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee concluded Wednesday shortly after 6 p.m. in Saskatoon.Written positions on wages and class complexity-accountability framework were shared during the three days of presentations.The arbitration boa...
Dec 19, 2024
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dismissing regulations
Sask. to ignore federal Clean Energy Regulations despite changes
Despite changes made within the final Clean Energy Regulations (CER) published by the federal government this week, the Government of Saskatchewan continued to dismiss the regulations themselves and the authority behind them.The provincial government has been railing against the iterations of the draft regulations for ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Correcting mistakes
New federal commission established to review potential wrongful convictions
Having spent 23 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, David Milgard dedicated the rest of his life to advocating for others who had been wrongfully convicted.And that passion has led to the Royal Assent of David and Joyce Milgaard's Law, which establishes a federal independent commission whose job it will be t...
Dec 18, 2024
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Local Sports
Holiday Rivalry
Mustangs ending 2024 with home-and-home against Hawks
The Melfort Mustangs will wrap up their 2024 portion of this year's campaign, this weekend with the Nipawin Hawks.Melfort will begin the home-and-home set, in Nipawin tonight, looking to extend their 13-game win streak."We just have to stick to our game and play how we usually play, it's an exciting last two games...
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Award for Melfort player
Melfort's Paul Peterson wins Sask. Games Council Award
A Melfort athlete has won a Saskatchewan Games Council medal. Team Lakeland basketball player Paul Peterson has received a 2024 Lorne Lasuita Saskatchewan Games Athletic Award following his participation in the 2024 Saskatchewan Summer Games in Lloydminster. The award is given to one male and one female athlete who &qu...
17h ago
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Leadership
Riders coaching staff remains mostly unchanged for 2025
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are keeping things mostly consistent when it comes to Cory Mace's coaching staff.J.C. Sherritt is the only member from the 2024 group to not return with reports indicating he has accepted the role of defensive co-ordinator for Mark Kilam's staff with the Edmonton Elks.Travis Brown joins the...
Dec 19, 2024
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Best in the West
MVP Crozon leads Canada to AmeriCup Gold
It's safe to say that Humboldt native Paige Crozon ended 2024 off on a high note, as she was named tournament MVP while leading Team Canada to a gold medal at the FIBA AmeriCup.The women's 3x3 basketball player had a whopping 46 points in just five games, as Canada pulled off a 19-18 overtime win in the final, against ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Trojans win
Trojans beat Mintos to climb SMAAAHL standings
The Tisdale Trojans are heading into their Christmas break on a high note. The Trojans downed the Prince Albert Mintos 5-2 at the RECPlex Wednesday night. Tisdale's Ramy Borowsky scored the lone goal in the first period. Pryce Thiessen and Eric Han put the Trojans up 3-1 after two periods. The Mintos closed to within o...
Dec 19, 2024
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Woes at the Whit
Flin Flon continues to give Hawks headaches
The Hawks dropped an 8-2 decision in Flon Flon Tuesday, Nipawin's 16th straight loss to the Bombers.Seeking the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) team's first win at the Whitney Forum since Feb. 15, 2022, the storyline was all too familiar as the Bombers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period and never loo...
Dec 18, 2024
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Northeast Profiles
Digital Farming
Managing resources and visualizing ROI with data and digital farming
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...
Aug 07, 2024
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Nursing
Studying Nursing with the University of Saskatchewan
"Staying in my home community of Prince Albert and studying at the beautiful new University of Saskatchewan (USask) Prince Albert Campus were two reasons I chose USask in PA," said Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) student Justine Capilitan.Since 2012, USask College of Nursing has been offering the BSN pro...
May 08, 2024
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Time to vote
PBCN prepares for election
Members of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation head to the polls next month.The election for chief and council has been scheduled for April 9 and a list of candidates was released Monday by the electoral officer. They have however indicated the list is still subject to change and may have to do in part with a requirement all ...
Mar 27, 2024
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farmnewsNOW
A cow raised in Saskatchewan has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis
The Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association is keeping a close eye and ear to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's investigation into a positive case of...
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UFA opens new cardlock in northeast Saskatchewan
UFA Co-operative UFA has expanded its operations to Melfort, Sask. President and CEO Scott Bolton said the new location is equipped with state-of-the-...
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Livestock producers are warned to watch for a larval disease
A disease that lives off the flesh of living mammals has been confirmed in Chiapas, Mexico. New World screwworm (NWS) is a parasitic larval disease of...
Dec 19, 2024
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Canada
Overheated immigration system needed 'discipline' infusion: minister
OTTAWA - An "overheated" immigration system that admitted record numbers of newcomers to the country has harmed Canada's decades-old consensus on the benefits of immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said, as he reflected on the changes in his department in a year-end interview. The system, he said, n...
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Music maker, 88, creates unique horn section, with moose antler bass guitar and cello
Eighty-eight-year-old Lorne Collie has been making musical instruments for more than three decades, creations that dazzle for their unique materials as much as their sound. There's a hefty bass guitar and a cello made of moose antlers, a baseball bat violin, ukuleles made of cookie tins, and guitars fashioned from pitc...
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B.C. mayor gets calls from across Canada about 'crazy' plan to recruit doctors
The mayor of the suburban Victoria community of Colwood says he's getting calls from municipal leaders across Canada who have heard about his community's "out-of-the-box" plan to recruit family doctors as city workers. Mayor Doug Kobayashi announced this week that Colwood has hired its first family doctor for...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces new lieutenant-governor for B.C.
VICTORIA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the appointment of longtime businesswoman and philanthropist Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia as British Columbia's 31st lieutenant-governor. Trudeau says in a statement that Lisogar-Cocchia is a respected entrepreneur in the hospitality industry and a dedicated community lea...
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Politics
Singh says NDP will bring forward a non-confidence motion to bring government down
The New Democrats will bring forward a non-confidence motion to bring down the Liberals in the next sitting of the House of Commons, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Friday.In the latest blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's struggling Liberal government, Singh wrote a letter addressed to Canadians in which he doubled d...
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What happened during the fall sitting of the House of Commons, by the numbers
OTTAWA - The fall sitting of the House of Commons featured non-confidence votes, plenty of partisan bickering, and very little actual passing of laws. The session that ended Dec. 17 will go down as one of the least productive in Canadian history, and possibly one of the most partisan. Here's a look at what happened, by...
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World
Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Germany rises to 5
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) - The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, the state governor said Saturday. Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were injured, many seriously, when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a b...
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Senate passes Social Security benefits boost for many public service retirees
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year. The bipartisan bill, which next heads to President Joe Biden, will eliminate longtime re...
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A Missouri judge says the state's abortion ban isn't enforceable, ensuring legal abortions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that Missouri's near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, ensuring abortion will be legal in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang issued an order blocking the state's strict abortion law after a new abortion-rights co...
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A Missouri judge says the state's abortion ban isn't enforceable, ensuring legal abortions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that Missouri's near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, ensuring abortion will be legal in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang issued an order blocking the state's strict abortion law after a new abortion-rights co...
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Missouri governor commutes sentence of white police officer convicted of fatally shooting Black man
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's governor commuted the sentence of a white Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man whose death fueled racial justice protests. Gov. Mike Parson commuted Eric DeValkenaere's sentence to time served on Friday, weeks...
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France's anti-terrorism court convicts 8 people of involvement in the 2020 beheading of a teacher
PARIS (AP) - France's anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty four years ago. Paty was killed outside his school near Paris on Oct. 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assaila...
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