Council in Melfort heard from the Kinsmen Club of Melfort about their desire to refurbish and replace the current Dale Frier Memorial outdoor rink. Delegate Trevis McConaghy addressed council about the Kinsmen Club's plans for the new outdoor facility. McConaghy said at Monday's council meeting that the current rink is...

A long-time City of Melfort employee is retiring after over three decades in his position. Herb Marshall has been Melfort's Building Official for the past 33 years. "This is a really noteworthy accomplishment," Director of Community Services Rob Lok told northeastNOW. "For 33 years, Herb has done the sam...

A busy time for local fire departments. Kinistino Fire Department crews were sent to a collision involving a grader on Coxby Road Monday morning.Two vehicles had run into a grader that was performing road maintenance. (Kinistino Fire Department/Facebook)Seven occupants of the two vehicles fled the scene before crews ar...

Almost seven months have passed since a car jacking north of Prince Albert resulted in a man being sent to hospital with a gunshot wound.One of the people alleged responsible remains unaccounted for and the RCMP are still hoping to find 28-year-old Dallas Fulton, who last seen in the Thunder Rapids area north of Carrot...

With a new federal cabinet announced and a new federal immigration minister getting settled in, Saskatchewan's immigration minister is looking to put together a deal.Tuesday morning, Lena Metlege Diab was announced as the new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship as Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his n...

Cenovus is dealing with a well release at the Rush Lake 2 thermal facility, about 80 kilometers southeast of Lloydminster. In a statement emailed to battlefordsNOW, the energy company's media relations department didn't detail the cause of the release but said it is 'primarily water vapour.'The site is a thermal heavy ...

Stingray media's only conventional television properties, CITL/CKSA TV were officially shut down Tuesday.In a press release on the company's website, Stingray said the Lloydminster, Alta based TV media outlet has operated under 'increasingly challenging economic conditions, which have greatly deteriorated over the last...

Family and community have an opportunity to do more to help prevent incidents like a 14-year-old boy running from officers while carrying a sawed-off shotgun as the outcome could have been much different, according to Deputy Chief of Police, Farica Prince. Prince was at the Public Board of Police Commissioners (PBOPC) ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet is being sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.Here's the latest on the events at Rideau Hall. All times Eastern.---11:57 a.m.Eleanor Olszewski is sworn in as the minister of emergency management and community resilience, and minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Ca...

A deceased animal, believed to be a dog, was discovered in a metal kennel within the site of a grass fire north of Île-à-la-Crosse. Now, RCMP are asking for the public's help in determining who left it there.On May 7, fire investigators with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency were investigating the caus...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Rome on Friday to attend Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The Prime Minister's Office said in a news release Tuesday that Carney will be in Rome from May 16 to 19. The ceremony, which marks the official start of a pope's term, will take place on Sunday, May 18, at St. Peter's...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced his new cabinet. Here is the list of all 28 Liberal cabinet members, as well as 10 secretaries of state. Returning members of cabinet: Anita Anand, minister of foreign affairs The MP for Oakville East in Ontario has been a mainstay of the Liberal cabinet, holding seven ...

OTTAWA - Former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says it's "impossible not to feel disrespected" after being dropped from cabinet. In a series of social media posts Tuesday, the member of Parliament for Beaches-East York said he ran in the recent election for the opportunity to make "an even bigger di...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his 28-member cabinet and it's a mix of familiar and new faces from across Canada. Carney's cabinet is smaller than that of his predecessor - former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government had 35 ministers by the end - and adds 10 secretaries of state, who are essenti...

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has tossed out a challenge that would have stopped the killing of about 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm that suffered an outbreak of avian flu. More coming. The Canadian Press

A second dead grey whale has washed ashore in British Columbia in less than a week. Fisheries and Oceans Canada has confirmed that the latest dead whale was reported on May 11 in Haida Gwaii near the community of Skidegate, and a marine mammal response team is working with local First Nations to co-ordinate a necropsy....

As spring arrives, Ontario's fruit and vegetable farms are once again welcoming seasonal and temporary farm workers from other countries. After the ch...

Seeding is underway across Saskatchewan. Riley Rude, Crop Extension Specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture, says whether you're already putting i...

A non-profit company that promotes communication and stewardship among crop producers, beekeepers and pesticide applicators has welcomed Alberta as th...

As Saskatchewan farmers begin seeding the 2025 crop, Grow Hope Saskatchewan is launching its eighth growing season with a new partner at the table. Ca...

British Columbia's Agriculture Ministry is urging ranchers and farmers to register the location of their livestock ahead of wildfire season.It says re...

The April snowstorms haven't slowed down Saskatchewan farmers who were able to get into their fields and have planted 18 per cent of the 2025 crop. Th...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, allowing the case against her to continue. The arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan escalated a clash between President Donald Trump's administration and local authori...

NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals. Rose's permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and came a day before the Cin...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89. His death was announced by Uruguayan President Yamandú Ors...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - After months of delays, a hearing started Tuesday to decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should get a chance at freedom after serving nearly 30 years in prison for the double murder of their parents. A Los Angeles judge is presiding over the resentencing hearing that is expected to last two days. I...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - President Donald Trump will meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of former leader Bashar Assad. "The President agreed to say hello to the Syrian President while in Saudi Arabia tomorrow," the Whi...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will be waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Turkish capital this week to conduct face-to-face talks about the more than three-year war. Putin hasn't yet said whether he will be at the talks, which U.S. President Donald Tru...