A thrilling weekend of hockey came to a close on Sunday night with the Canoe Lake Young Guns winning the 2024 Senator's Cup The Young Guns clinched the title with a 4-2 victory over the Sandy Lake Chiefs on Sunday night at the Art Hauser Centre. Sandy Lake previously beat the Young Guns 3-2 on Sunday evening, forcing C...

A meeting between Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) leaders and the Director General of Public Safety Canada was held in Pelican Narrows on Thursday to discuss some urgent safety issues in the community. The leadership of PBCN welcomed Director General Adrian Walraven to the community for the meeting, which was also ...

After two seasons with the La Ronge Ice Wolves, goalie Topher Chirico is off to college.The team has announced that Chirico has committed to the Wentworth Institute of Technology, a Division III school in Boston starting this fall.Last season, Chirico played in 45 games, posting a 13-27 record with a 3.80 Goals against...

Two men have been arrested after fleeing from police in Montreal Lake Cree Nation.On Tuesday afternoon, RCMP discovered a wanted man was inside a home in the community.As officers approached the home, two men ran out and headed to a nearby wooded area.The pair were seen wading across a river before heading back into th...

Some spring showers - and possibly snow - could hit the province this week.Erik Dykes, senior meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the forecast is calling for steady rain and pockets of heavy showers across all of Saskatchewan from Tuesday through Friday.It is quite a broad area of low pressure that is coming in...

A sudden of change of direction has occurred for a trial that started last month at Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert, and relates to a standoff that from last year at Montreal Lake Cree Nation.At the onset of Friday's scheduled hearing, Crown Prosecutor Doug Howell stated that a number of charges were being dropp...

Indigenous hockey teams from across the prairies are in Prince Albert this weekend for the eighth annual Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) Senator's Cup. The 2024 edition of the tournament will feature 19 teams competing for the grand prize, three more than last year when they had 16. This year will feature three team...

Teaching people how much damage wildfires can cause and how people can prevent them is the target of a new campaign by the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC).The PAGC is teaming up with the Sask. Public Safety Agency (SPSA) to run the educational campaign starting in May and finishing in June. "Human-caused fires ...

Phoenix the cat is only about three years old but has accomplished much in that short time and used up several of her nine lives. First, she survived being abandoned at a home where there had been a murder, then she fell into a turtle's tank full of water and then she accidentally became a famous internet cat with her ...

The fate of a former Saskatchewan RCMP officer, who shot and killed his young lover, now rests in the hands of a King's Bench Justice.A sentencing decision for Bernie Herman has been reserved to June 18.Thursday morning's hearing at Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert lasted roughly two hours and included sentencing...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are demanding to see contracts related to six electric vehicle projects underway in Canada for information on what they do to protect local union jobs. The Tories plan to table a motion today at a House of Commons committee meeting, asking to view contracts and provisions that may ...

MONTREAL - McGill University says the camp set up by pro-Palestinian student activists on the institution's grounds in Montreal violates school policies and the law. More than two dozen tents had been pitched at the school's downtown campus on Sunday afternoon, with a steady stream of visitors stopping by to drop off d...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Pro-Palestinian encampment at Montreal's McGill University Pro-Palestinian student activists in Montreal have set up camp on the grounds of McGill University this weekend. It follows a wave of simila...

MONTREAL - Pro-Palestinian student activists in Montreal have set up camp on the grounds of McGill University this weekend, following a wave of similar protests on campuses across the United States. More than two dozen tents had been pitched at the school's downtown campus On Sunday afternoon, with a steady stream of v...

VANCOUVER - Advocates for drug users are raising concerns about British Columbia's request for Health Canada to empower police to step in when they see illicit drug use in public spaces, saying it may be a step backward in the fight against the deadly opioid crisis. Brittany Graham, the executive director of the Vancou...

OTTAWA - The World Central Kitchen plans to resume operations in the Gaza Strip Monday, four weeks after Israeli airstrikes killed seven of its aid workers including one Canadian. The organization suspended food delivery in the region after the attack on three World Central Kitchen vehicles full of food from a nearby w...

LONDON (AP) - Scotland's first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change. Yousaf, whose Scottish National Party has been weakened by a campaign finance scandal and divisions ov...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, police said. The Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, collapsed and water spilled d...

Candace Parker always said she'd know when it would be time to retire. That day came Sunday. The three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist announced on social media that her career was over after 16 seasons. "The competitor in me always wants 1 more, but it's time," Parker wrote in an Instag...

Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting "vampire facial" procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles, federal health officials said.The Centers for Disease Control and ...

U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn't order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February, according to an official familiar with the determination.While U.S. officials believe Putin was ultimately responsible for the death of Navalny, who...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - President Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary Sunday in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was authorized to open only a dozen voting centers this year compared with more than 100 in previous years given recent austerity measures imposed by a federal control board ...