A 31-year-old man is missing and the Battlefords RCMP are asking for the public's assistance. Jordan Thomas was last seen on April 27 and is about 6'2 and 200 lbs with a tattoo of lettering on his neck. According to police he travels to Saskatoon and Tisdale, however, his current location isn't known. If anyone has inf...

A man suspected of stealing from a Melfort store is wanted by police. RCMP say a man and woman entered a business April 27 and stole about $500 worth of items.The woman has been identified by police, but they need help identifying the man. He had a goatee and was wearing a black T-shirt and a grey ball cap with sunglas...

RCMP in Melfort are on the lookout for a man accused of assaulting a woman last month.Police were called April 16 about a woman that appeared to have been assaulted and was running toward the Melfort Hospital. RCMP found the woman at the hospital. The investigation resulted in 52-year-old Brent Tieken of Melfort being ...

The City of Melfort is funding a portion of the continued rehabilitation of Saskatchewan Drive. A Special Council Meeting was held Monday to approve the funding for the project. The city issued an Expression of Interest to the Ministry of Highways to rehab the remaining portion of Saskatchewan Drive in September 2023, ...

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says it is not relocating its head office from Regina to Quebec.FCC is Canada's largest farm lender and has operated out of Saskatchewan for around 60 years.In a news release Thursday, the Saskatchewan United Party said the organization is planning to relocate its headquarters."Multiple hi...

The provincial government has released Orano Canada Inc. from decommissioning approvals and its associated surface lease on the Cluff Lake Project's mine.That follows the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) Record of Decision on May 11, 2023, to revoke the mine and mill operating licence. With the recent accept...

The CEO of the Saskatchewan Landlords Associations says a bump in pay for people living on social assistance, does not address the bigger problems at hand. Cameron Chouette is responding to a change that took effect on May 1, and sees monthly income assistance benefits rise by three per cent for Saskatchewan Income Sup...

Saskatchewan and Alberta have agreed to share and swap information about nuclear power generation. The governments of the two provinces have signed a memorandum of understanding.The two sides agree to keep each other informed on supply chains, workforce development, fuel supply and regulations around reactor technologi...

The story of a Prince Albert man frustrated that hospitals no longer offer free parking for cancer patients has made its way to the provincial legislature. Last month, paNOW, spoke with Prince Albert City Councillor Dennis Ogrodnick who took to social media to call out the government's decision to remove free parking p...

Saskatchewan's government appears firm in its position to steer clear of implementing a safe drug supply or decriminalization as members watch B.C.'s drug policies unfold. "I know the members opposite want to desperately convince the communities across Saskatchewan that there is somehow some safe use of an illicit...

OTTAWA - A public inquiry into allegations of foreign meddling in Canada's last two elections released its preliminary findings Friday, and concluded attempts to interfere did not impact the integrity of the 2021 and 2019 votes. The inquiry, led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, provided a question-and-answer summa...

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen announced a $65-million aid package for Lebanon today. Canada is providing $38 million for development assistance and another $27 million in humanitarian aid. The development funding will be channeled through United Nations organizations such as UN Women. Globa...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court is ordering a new trial for a francophone man in British Columbia who says he was not informed of his right to have a trial in the official language of his choice. The top court ruled 5-2 in the decision released today. Franck Yvan Tayo Tompouba appealed his sexual assault conviction on the...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto says it's concerned about safety as a pro-Palestine encampment still stands at its downtown campus. A statement from the U of T issued Thursday followed tents, banners and flags being set up on campus as students continue to call on the post-secondary institution to cut ties with Isr...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Students set up pro-Palestinian encampment at UofT The University of Toronto says its concerns about safety at its downtown campus are rising. A statement from the university Thursday came after tent...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg judge is expected to decide today whether the trial of a man accused of killing four women will still be heard by a jury Lawyers for Jeremy Skibicki have asked that his jury trial, which is set to begin Wednesday, be heard by a judge alone. The defence has argued that two years of publicity surro...

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says it is not relocating its head office from Regina to Quebec.FCC is Canada's largest farm lender and has operated out of S...

A national organization representing Canadian business is putting pressure on the federal government to clarify rules surrounding capital gains propos...

Wildlife attacks on livestock are a significant problem for Manitoba producers with over 2,000 livestock lost each year. Farmers and ranchers have bee...

After a close race, four communities across Canada were named the winners of BASF's Growing Home program and are each awarded $25,000 to be used to fu...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has stated less than 33 per cent of the world's surface has mobile network coverage. That'...

The Wild Pig Summit was held this week in Brandon, Man. to help launch a strategy to control the feral pig population on the Prairies, as well as part...

HOUSTON (AP) - Officials in Houston are urging residents to prepare for worsening flooding after days of heavy rains that have led to high-water rescues and mandatory evacuation orders. "This threat is ongoing and it's going to get worse. It is not your typical river flood," Hidalgo County Judge Lina Hidalgo,...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hope Hicks, a former longtime adviser to Donald Trump, took the witness stand Friday in his criminal trial, where prosecutors are expected to question her about her knowledge of hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hicks, who served as White House communications director, is t...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hope Hicks, who served as Donald Trump's 2016 campaign press secretary and went on to hold various roles in his White House, took the witness stand in his New York hush money case on Friday. Her testimony on the trial's 11th day was the latest in a frenzied second week of witness testimony and followed ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. It is the latest advance in China's increasingly sophisticated space exploration program,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel. The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted chang...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The major traffic artery linking New England with New York will be closed in Connecticut for days after a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95, Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday. The tanker truck filled with gasoline burst into flames in a three-vehicle crash Thursday on I-95 in southwest ...