A Lloydminster restaurant owner said her business may have to close within weeks because immigration paperwork delays have left her two chefs unable to renew their work permits."Without them, I am nothing," said Ravinder Kaur, owner of Indian Kitchen. "If I am not able to find any chef, I have no other o...

The province introduced a new act to strengthen accountability for drug traffickers and to enhance community safety.The Government of Saskatchewan has introduced The Response to Illicit Drugs Act, a new Act that "provides government and individuals with tools to recover costs associated with the harms caused by il...

When Geordie McKay was a boy, Christmas looked different depending on which door he walked through.At home, the season unfolded around a tidy, practical artificial tree. Green plastic needles, perfectly symmetrical and smelling faintly of cardboard after eleven months tucked away in a box.It was Christmas, yes... but n...

The Saskatchewan NDP is looking for answers about a billion-dollar increase in expenses for taxpayers.On Wednesday, the provincial government voted to provide an additional $813 million to SaskPower to improve its transmission system, as well as a further $194 million, which Crown Investments Minister Jeremy Harrison s...

Saskatchewan's government is poised to spend an extra $1 billion this year, a move that would sink the province's finances deeper into the red.A committee meeting Tuesday night heard an additional expense of $813 million is required for SaskPower, the province's electrical utility.It also heard an extra $194 million is...

Trevor Sewap quit as the fire base supervisor for Pelican Narrows this past summer, when wildfires raged across northern Saskatchewan. He said it was out of pure frustration. "The government wanted to run from the fire and they left behind people with only their running shoes and no proper equipment to try to save...

A Saskatoon-based company is eagerly poring over the data from what is described as Canada's first-ever natural hydrogen well.Located just outside Central Butte, northwest of Moose Jaw, completion of the Lawson mine was completed Nov. 25 by MAX Power Mining Corp. Molecules of natural hydrogen were detected at multiple ...

Chiefs with the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) say shootings, gang activity, drug trafficking and delayed RCMP response times have created a public-safety crisis in their communities, and they are urging federal and provincial officials to meet with them and address what they describe as systemic failures in p...

Cut Knife's Jake Vaadeland had a very big night at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards Gala.In addition to winning Male Artist of the Year, Vaadeland also won for Alternative Country Album of the Year; Interactive Artist of the Year; Record Producer of the Year; Fan's Choice; and National/International Artist.The awa...

On a brisk morning north of Leoville, the bush is still, holding its breath.Frost clings to every branch and the rising sun paints the boreal forest in silver.Somewhere in that half-light, watching the edge of a cutline with the patience that only decades of hunting can teach, sits a man who has hunted nearly everywher...

Changes to provincial firearms legislation in response to the federal gun buyback program are being described by the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) as a positive step.Proposed changes to the Saskatchewan Firearms Act would require fair market value be paid for any seized gun, in response to a federal ban announ...

VICTORIA - The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Columbia coast. Rick Steiner, a former academic who was one of the first on the scene of the infamous disaster and has closel...

Temperatures may be dropping, but Saskatchewan RCMP wants to remind people that ice on lakes, rivers, sloughs, ponds and dugouts in the province is still too thin to walk on.Corporal Jamie Diemert, co-ordinator of the Saskatchewan RCMP Underwater Recovery Team (URT), said in a news release that while many bodies of wat...

New legislation in Saskatchewan means victims of cyberstalking and coercive control can access the same support systems as victims of physical violence.The Cyberstalking and Coercive Control Act adds those two categories to Victims of Interpersonal Violence Act, which protects victims through emergency restraining orde...

The Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes unit is in Meadow Lake this weekend, investigating a death they deem suspicious.Meadow Lake RCMP first received a report at around 8:50 a.m. on Nov. 28, explaining there was an unresponsive person in a parking lot near the junction of Highway 4 and 1st Avenue West.Officers quickly loc...

From piano lessons to the big stage, a rising musician from North Battleford has claimed gold with a showstopping performance. 14-year-old Nathaniel Negad is the pianist behind the keys, growing up with a love for music. Earlier this week, he performed at the Royal Conservatory 2025 Celebration of Excellence Regional C...

Some Saskatchewan parents will continue to receive $10 a day daycare for another five years thanks to an extension of the Canada-Saskatchewan Bilateral Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, starting in 2026-2027."Affordable child care is an economic tool that helps Saskatchewan grow," Patty Hajdu, federal ...

From the next province over, Premier Scott Moe gave a nod of approval Thursday morning to the pipeline deal signed between the Province of Alberta and the federal government.The memorandum of understanding commits the two parties to working together on building a pipeline to the West Coast, and the federal government c...

Prime Minister Mark Carney wants the Canadian lumber and steel sectors to look for more opportunities at home as U.S. tariffs and shifting global trade tides limit their opportunities abroad.Carney unveiled a suite of new supports for the tariff-stricken sectors at an event on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.He told repor...

The fog that rolled into Saskatoon overnight has left some airplane passengers in other parts of the Prairies.Starting around 9:30 p.m. last night, foggy conditions began impacting operations at Saskatoon airport, causing several flights to get cancelled or diverted. Two of those affected were Air Canada's flight comin...

Thomas King's revelation that he has no Indigenous ancestry sent ripples through Canada's cultural sector, while raising questions about what responsibility a person has when they claim a heritage they say they cannot prove.The 82-year-old author of "The Inconvenient Indian" revealed on Monday that he is not ...

After 19 years on the road, the Flin Flon Bombers are looking to replace the bus that currently takes the team around Saskatchewan.Unlike most teams in the SJHL, the Bombers own their bus. Head Coach and General Manager Mike Reagan said that without buying the bus, the team might not be around anymore."It's one of...

Stating a couple in their late 50s requiring medical attention was left stranded for nearly two days in a remote area of Northern Saskatchewan before being rescued, leadership at Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) is calling on the province and federal government to address what they call critical emergency-response g...

In a release issued earlier today, the Saskatchewan RCMP have revealed troubling numbers around fatal vehicle collisions in the province. In the period of November 1 to 25, the province has seen a total of 11 fatal motor-vehicle collisions, resulting in 11 deaths, on Saskatchewan roads.Seven of those collisions have ha...

With a goal of raising over a million dollars Canada wide, KidSport has launched the 14th annual Give the Gift of Sport campaign.Supported by all 176 KidSport community chapters, the campaign that runs until Jan. 4, 2026, encourages Canadians to make a meaningful difference this holiday season by helping break down fin...

This year's Saskatchewan budget is sinking deeper into the red, mainly due to the cost of fighting the summer's wildfires.Finance Minister Jim Reiter, in a midterm update on the budget, says the projected year-end deficit is expected to be $427 million.It's a major swing from when the budget was introduced in the sprin...

Prince Albert city council unanimously supported a pitch from a Saskatoon-based corporation that hopes to spearhead a northern trade corridor that would run from the Pacific ocean to the Hudson Bay. If successful, the corridor would have Prince Albert as a central hub. Dan Ukrainetz, along with Chief Kirby Constant of ...

A recent Federal Court ruling could mean greater financial transparency in First Nations communities across Canada.Years ago, Hans McCarthy, an Indigenous activist from Frog Lake First Nation in Alberta, reached out to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) after seeing a story about money missing from his community's...