A driver received $705 in fines after police stopped a vehicle travelling 135 kilometres per hour on Highway 3 near Prince Albert and found a child who was not properly restrained. The traffic stop happened Oct. 10 during Operation Impact, a national enforcement campaign targeting impaired and distracted driving, speed...

Flags at Prince Albert city facilities will fly at half-mast and a book of condolences will be available at City Hall in memory of Pte. Shaun Farrell, one of four soldiers killed in Saturday's fire at CFB Wainwright.Community members can leave messages of sympathy for Farrell's family in the book in the foyer of City H...

"Mom, you will not believe it. We were just talking about this, and we found one. We can't believe it. Please come quick."That was how Amanda Singh recalled the call from her daughter after Bailey Pearson and her younger brother found a fossil in a pile of rocks.Bailey, 16, wanted her mother to bring a cart. ...

OTTAWA - Pamela Wallin has resigned from the Senate, according to her biography on the Senate website.Wallin was appointed to the Upper Chamber in 2009 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.She had a trail-blazing career as a broadcaster and became the first woman to be named bureau chief for CTV News in Ottawa in 1985.Afte...

Albertans head to the polls today for an historic vote on whether they want to stay in Canada.More than 1.3 million Albertans have already cast ballots by mail or in advanced polls in a referendum called by Premier Danielle Smith.They are being asked whether they want to stay in Canada or hold a second, binding referen...

A Prince Albert family is mourning the loss of their son after a fast-moving fire swept through a military training area at CFB Wainwright in Alberta on Saturday, killing four Canadian Armed Forces members and leaving dozens more injured.Pvt. Shaun Farrell of Prince Albert was among the four soldiers who died in what P...

WAINWRIGHT - Defence Minister David McGuinty says there have been deaths and injuries after a fire broke out Saturday at a military base in Alberta.Fire crews scrambled late into the night as fierce winds whipped flames beyond CFB Wainwright, a massive military training base located 200 kilometres southeast of Edmonton...

The Sask. NDP is happy to hear the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly apologize for an oversight in procedure, but still wants the exemptions around advertising in Sask. Party MLA Kevin Weedmark's newspapers to be revoked.On Thursday, the opposition NDP received a response from Speaker Todd Goudy to a letter sent earl...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders found the end zone on their final offensive drive of the game to punch their ticket to the postseason on Saturday.Saskatchewan drove 74 yards with a clutch third-down catch from KeeSean Johnson, a 22-yard rush from quarterback Trevor Harris and finally a touchdown pass between those two as ...

UPDATE: Cut Knife RCMP have charged two more people Monday in connection with the Oct. 15 robbery on Poundmaker Cree Nation, with one arrested and the other still wanted.Lacey Checkosis, 38, of Poundmaker Cree Nation, is charged with one count of robbery with a firearm. Police say she was arrested Oct. 16 at a residenc...

Time is running out for the Saskatchewan Roughriders to get things back on track.Saskatchewan is mired in a four-game slide with just two games left as they welcome the Montreal Alouettes to Mosaic Stadium today.Saskatchewan has yet to clinch a playoff spot but can do so with a win paired with a Winnipeg Blue Bombers o...

Hollywood has done a lot for tunnels.They've been a way for prisoners to dig their way to freedom. Secret passages for spies. A shortcut nobody was supposed to find.Places where treasure hunters disappear into the darkness and emerge several minutes later, covered in dust, holding something they absolutely should not h...

Layoffs at the Big River sawmill are prompting calls for provincial action from Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP and a union representative, while the government said it has repeatedly deployed support teams to help affected workers.Speaking at a press conference in Prince Albert Friday, NDP Northern Affairs Shadow Minist...

OTTAWA - Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds aerial aerobatics team are set to perform their final air show Friday in Moose Jaw, Sask., before their decades-old Tutor jets head into retirement.The RCAF is set to livestream the annual season home closer online at noon in Saskatchewan (2 p.m. ET) on its Fac...

We won't know from the RCMP whether Jayden Dalke was impaired when he killed a man in a collision in July. The investigation has wrapped up and confirms what was largely already known.The Saskatchewan RCMP has issued what it is calling a "final update" in relation to the collision on Highway 11, between Regin...

A relatively new program that assists provincial inmates address the factors that contribute to criminal behaviour and prepares them for life after release, is being expanded.The Government of Saskatchewan is investing nearly $50,000 in 2026-27 to support the next phase of the Ewikīwiyāhn Indigenous Teachings and Hea...

After years of back and forth between Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN), the federal government is now demanding re-payment of over $12.3 million and is threatening to use the funding it pays out to the organization to cover off the debt. That's according to a le...

The upcoming cold and flu season in Saskatchewan may be a doozy.University of Saskatchewan microbiologist Dr. Joseph Blondeau gave a grim forecast following the launch of the fall influenza immunization campaign."My prediction is, unfortunately, we might have a rough respiratory virus season this year."He sai...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear an appeal of Ottawa's ban on single-use plastics.The Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision in January, allowing the federal government to keep the ban in place.A 2023 Federal Court decision in a case brought by the plastics industry said Ottawa ...

The official Opposition wants to see Saskatchewan invest more in nurses within the province, rather than paying to bring in workers from beyond its borders.On Wednesday morning, the Saskatchewan NDP's Keith Jorgenson said travel nurses are significantly more expensive than hiring nurses who already live and want to wor...

Saskatchewan's annual fall immunization campaign launched Tuesday, for people six months of age and older to receive their influenza and/or COVID-19 vaccines.As flu season begins, Saskatchewan Health Authority medical health officer Dr. Vivian Onaemo encouraged people to get their shots as soon as possible."My mes...

While most residential schools across Canada were shut down in the 1970s and 80s, Saskatchewan was home to the final institutions still operating in the country. Residential schools like Gordon Indian Residential School and Muscowequan Indian Residential School were running through much of the 1990s, leaving a generati...

Photo Credit: DMDS/Lauren Tutty Multiple award-winning Cree-Saulteaux country artist Teagan Littlechief turns self-doubt into strength with her...

Some hunters in Saskatchewan say the were blindsided by the province's decision to end a program that tests for chronic wasting disease in deer and other similar animals. A bulletin on the province's website says the program is to be eliminated at the end of this month. Darrell Crabbe, the executive director of the Sas...

Update: RCMP provided an update to an incident that began early Thursday afternoon on Red Earth Cree Nation and ended with one person deceased.On Oct. 15, at approximately 1:45 p.m., Carrot River RCMP received a report of an injured man at a residence on the Cree Nation. Officers immediately responded and located the m...

Roxy Fisher won't reveal the address of the La Ronge home she claims she shared with a poltergeist, but she's preparing to tell her story to a television audience.Fisher, who now lives in Saskatoon, was contacted about two weeks ago by a producer of Paranormal Survivor. The series pairs first-person accounts of alleged...

The Saskatchewan NDP is calling on Premier Scott Moe to restore direct rent payments to landlords to help prevent more people from becoming homeless.Speaking in Prince Albert Thursday, Kim Breckner, the Opposition's trade and export development critic, said the NDP plans to introduce private member's legislation during...

A fibre cut disrupted SaskTel internet, television, home phone and cellular services in several Saskatchewan communities Thursday, including Prince Albert and Saskatoon. The Crown corporation said crews were working to restore service as quickly as possible.SaskTel first reported the outage around 10:30 a.m. in Saskato...