Two recruits with the La Ronge Regional Fire Department's Work Experience Firefighting Program are gaining valuable knowledge in hopes of furthering their careers in the profession. Blake Power of Oakville, Ont., and Destiny Pfeiffer of Kitchener, Ont., arrived in La Ronge in the beginning of April and will remain in t...

Three teenagers have been charged after a gun was fired in Île-à-la-Crosse. On July 16 at approximately 2:30 p.m., officers received a report of a firearm discharge in a treed area near Amisk Crescent. It was reported to police that three teenage boys were seen exiting the area shortly after the incident....

A safety initiative launched by a northern paramedic is putting ATV helmets in the hands of youth who use the motorized off-highway vehicles as their primary mode of transportation. Cameron Harrison reached out to multiple businesses in Prince Albert and Saskatoon in 2025 requesting donations of helmets to be given awa...

Up to 15,000 people are expected to attend the La Ronge Elk's Fair over the next three days. The annual midway by Canucks Amusement began noon on Friday and will continue until about 8 p.m. on Sunday. There are 22 rides in total, as well as many games of chance, beer gardens organized by the La Ronge Ice Wolves, a bing...

If your evening walk has recently involved weaving around Canada geese at the park or waiting for a flock to cross the path, you're not imagining things.Across the country, not just Saskatchewan, the birds seem to be spending far more time on foot than in the air.They're not forgetting how to fly. For a few weeks every...

Thousands of festivalgoers came and went through the gates in Batoche this weekend in celebration of Métis culture in Saskatchewan. Attendees watched live entertainment and had many different vendors to shop from, all with some sort of ties to Indigenous identity. People also had an array of food options from po...

Jeremy O'Day was solemn on Monday morning as he spoke to media about the late Jayden Dalke, two days after his fatal car crash.The Saskatchewan Roughriders Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager said he was a loved teammate - not only by the other Roughriders, but by former teammates as well."If...

Janie Denton dreams of a field filled with lilies.The manager at Honeywood Heritage Nursery west of Prince Albert is in the process of restoring the work Dr. A.J. (Bert) Porter started in the 1930s. Over the last two years, Janie Denton has planted more than 1,000 feet of lilies as part of the effort to bring back the ...

Federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers made several commitments during their annual conference in Halifax. In a statement released at the end of the meetings the ministers said there were several priorities for Canada's agriculture and agri‑food sector, including reviewing progress under the Sustai...

A business that's growing in popularity in Canada is hoping to keep dog owners a little more accountable.An American company called PooPrints is using a registry of canine DNA samples to find out which owners aren't cleaning up after their pets.Formed in 2008 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the service was introduced into Can...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Trade, big projects top issues as premiers meet Domestic trade and major projects will be on the agenda as Canada's premiers gather Tuesday in Prince Edward Islan...

George Harvie, mayor of Delta, B.C., has been sounding the alarm over security and crime at the province's port facilities for years, and he has plenty of questions as the federal government pushes a massive port expansion project in his city. The Rob...

Firefighters in British Columbia are working to build containment lines between an out of-control wildfire and the city of Kimberley in the province's southeast corner, where the entire community of more than 8,000 residents has been told to prepare fo...

Wildfires raging in northern Ontario appear to have pushed the province to its worst wildfire season on record. The province's latest numbers suggest fires have burned through more than 7,250 square kilometres of Ontario's forest, surpassing the previo...

OTTAWA - While the federal government has yet to sort out what it's doing with its order for a full fleet of fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets, it's already looking to the next big thing. Ottawa is widely expected to announce Tuesday it will join a si...

U.S. officials say three Mexicans have pleaded guilty to being part of a human smuggling ring that brought people into the United States from Canada. The U.S. Justice Department says the three were involved in an organization that brought hundreds of p...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and was moving slowly toward the Florida Panhandle, causing a tropical storm warning and storm surge watches around the state line between Florida and Alabama, forecasters said...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A man stabbed and wounded two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece's top tourist attraction, police said. The assailant attacked a man and a woman, both Greek Americans, with a knife ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tropical Storm Bertha formed Monday evening in the Gulf of Mexico south of the Florida Panhandle as it drifts erratically toward populated coastal areas bearing a threat of heavy rain, storm surge and damaging wind gusts, forecasters...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Flash floods in eastern Afghanistan have killed 20 people, injured about 80 more and left more than 100 missing, Afghan authorities said Monday. The floods struck the eastern province of Nuristan, said Yousaf Ham...

NEW YORK (AP) - A former U.S. Army soldier toting an anti-ICE sign set off fireworks, lit a fire and shot a pellet gun Monday morning outside a Manhattan federal office building, injuring three people before security officers subdued him, authorities s...

POWELL, Ohio (AP) - Five people have died on a river in Ohio after several of them went into the water to help another person who was struggling to swim, authorities said Monday. A motorist called 911 after spotting a frightened child who...