The annual 222's Fastpitch Shootout was held in Melfort this past weekend, and it was a pair of local teams who came out on top.Eleven U13 and U15 girls teams came from across Saskatchewan, as well as a pair from Manitoba, with Melfort winning the U13 side and Humboldt winning the U15 side.We had a really great tournam...

A Melfort man has received a conditional sentence after a drug trafficking investigation last year. Bret Markowski was handed a conditional sentence for drug trafficking and was ordered to pay a surcharge. He also received a firearm prohibition, while the two other counts he faced were withdrawn. The Saskatchewan RCMP'...

Two people face charges after multiple RCMP vehicles were intentionally damaged in Melfort. The incident happened yesterday evening at around 9:30, when a truck was driving around the area erratically, striking three parked police vehicles and two dumpsters. The male driver exited the truck, while a female passenger go...

The Town of Tisdale is hosting a Town Hall Meeting tonight at the Maruice Taylor Performing Arts Theatre inside the RECplex. Chief Administrative Officer Lovely Magnaye said one of her key advocacies is community engagement. "Hosting a town hall meeting marks the beginning of many future initiatives aimed at provi...

From a teacher to mother of 13 to Michif language-keeper, one woman who spent her life in St. Louis has left her stamp on her community, her family and now her country. Sophie McDougall, who passed away in 2023, will have her face on a Canada Post stamp that will be available for public sale on June 20, the day before ...

The latest update from the Saskatchewan Public Safety offers a mixed bag of news.On one hand, as of 11 a.m. on Tuesday, there were 13 active wildfires in the province and of those, six were categorized as contained, three not contained, two are ongoing assessment and two are listed as 'protecting values'. On Monday, fi...

From 2014 to 2024, Saskatchewan RCMP saw an 81 per cent increase in reports of fraud in the province. That's according to statistics compiled by Saskatchewan RCMP crime analysts, which noted a 200 per cent increase in reports of fraud greater than $5,000 and a 335 per cent increase in fraud related to theft, forgery an...

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has landed in Kananaskis for a pivotal meeting with the Group of Seven in the wake of a recent civilian attack Monday evening in Kiev, leaving over 100 injured and 12 killed. "This underscores the importance of standing in total solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian peopl...

What started as a gesture of goodwill ended with a good samaritan being robbed at gunpoint.Just after 4 p.m. on June 15, Prince Albert RCMP received a report of an armed robbery on Sturgeon Lake First Nation. A motorist in an SUV was driving on Sturgeon Lake Road when they came across a man lying on the roadway. The mo...

More good news on the wildfire front in Saskatchewan thanks to rain, precipitation and cooler weather.The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) said it will be rescinding the fire ban for the remainder of the province as of 5 p.m. Monday. Also, the Ditch02 fire near Weyakwin and the Pelican fire, which started near ...

CALGARY - The Manitoba government has signed an agreement with an area of Ukraine to support reconstruction efforts. Premier Wab Kinew made the announcement in Calgary following the G7 leaders' summit in nearby Kananaskis. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been scheduled to meet with Kinew but left early. Zel...

BANFF - Leaders of the G7 have agreed to co-operate on efforts to manage the impacts of devastating wildfires, which are surging for another summer across Canada. The leaders are calling it the Kananaskis Wildfire Charter - and it's believed to be a groundbreaking commitment for G7 leaders. It's a timely statement, as ...

KANANASKIS - Prime Minister Mark Carney outlined $4.3 billion in new support for Ukraine's defence as he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Alberta on Tuesday. The Prime Minister's Office said that sum includes $2 billion for the purchase and donation of weapons and ma...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby says he will ask the prime minister that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang be declared a terrorist organization in Canada. Police have said members of the South Asian community are being extorted of cash under threat of death or violence and the India-based gang has been linked to ...

OTTAWA - In a joint statement, G7 countries say they will work together to expand the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector. The idea is to improve the quality of government services and increase government efficiency. The statement was issued Tuesday as the global summit was wrapping up in Kananaskis, Al...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin tells The Canadian Press the government will reintroduce a consumer rebate program to help make electric vehicles more affordable. The federal government launched a rebate program on electric vehicles in 2019, but the program was so popular it ran out of funding, leading the...

A new initiative will advance beef genetics by matching genomic markers with desirable traits and evaluating reproductive efficiencies. IntegrOmes (In...

Rimbey's Dean Edge is the World Livestock Auctioneering champion.Competing in Dunlap, Iowa earlier this month, Edge is just the third Canadian to win ...

G7 farmers are ready to work with policymakers, industry leaders, and international partners to build a better future for agriculture and society. Far...

Building relationships and getting a lay of the land were the main purposes of a two-day visit to Saskatchewan by the new federal agriculture minister...

In a garden plot on the grounds of Simplot Grower Solutions in Hamlin, a piece of white cotton fabric that had earlier been tossed into a hole quickly...

Rimbey's Dean Edge is the World Livestock Auctioneering champion.Competing in Dunlap, Iowa earlier this month, Edge is just the third Canadian to win ...

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge expanded a ruling Tuesday that blocked the Trump administration from enacting policy changes to sex markers on passports for many transgender and nonbinary Americans. In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conceptio...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday that was first imposed in response to clashes with police and vandalism amid protests against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in the city. The curfew imposed June 10 provided "successful crime preventi...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A federal court on Tuesday granted former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's request to serve a six-year prison sentence for corruption at her home in Buenos Aires. Judges ruled that Fernández, 72, can serve time in the apartment where she lives with her da...

LONDON (AP) - British lawmakers voted Tuesday to decriminalize abortion in England and Wales after a lawmaker argued that it was cruel to prosecute women for ending a pregnancy. The House of Commons approved an amendment to a broader crime bill that would prevent women from being criminally punished under an antiquated...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday as he was trying to "accompany" a person out of a courtroom. A reporter with The Associated Press witnessed Lander's arrest at a federal building in Manhattan. The person ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. knows where Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn't want him killed "for now." Trump urged, in a social media posting, Iran's "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" as the five-day conflict c...