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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

GATINEAU, Que. - Justin Trudeau's Liberals haven't prepared enough for the next federal election, Public Services Minister Jean-Yves Duclos acknowledged in an interview this week in which he sidestepped questions about the prime minister's future. The party must do more to make Canadians understand the difference betwe...

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...

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-...

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...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has launched an investigation into a case of bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) in an animal originating from ...

A new program is offering up to $25,000 to help clinics attract more veterinarians to rural British Columbia.Businesses can apply for a portion of the...

Maximizing profits in an economic downturn. That was the focus of a presentation at Grain Expo during Canadian Western Agribition. Dean Klippenstein, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ROME (AP) - A court in Sicily Friday found Italian Vice Premier Matteo Salvini not guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship in 2019, when he was interior minister. The court in the city of Palermo dropped all the charges against Salvini in relation an incident in 2019, when he refuse...