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SCMA winner
Pattison Media radio host wins 2025 SCMA On-Air Personality of the Year
In the early years of his career, winning an award for being a radio personality never crossed Matt Ryan's mind. He grew up in the Prairies with a love for music; it was inevitable that he would eventually end up on the mic between songs. This year, Ryan earned his sixth Saskatchewan Country Music Award (SCMA) for On-A...
Dec 12, 2025
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2025 TWINKLE TOUR
Frigid weather postpones Twinkle Tour wrap-up to next week
Extreme cold has forced organizers to postpone the annual CJNB Twinkle Tour wrap-up event in North Battleford, pushing the celebration back to next week.The City of North Battleford says the event, originally scheduled for this Saturday, has been moved to Tuesday, Dec. 16, due to forecast wind chills expected to reach ...
Dec 12, 2025
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SCC
Supreme Court shuts door on appeal in brutal killing of Tiki Laverdiere
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from Soaring Eagle Whitstone, cementing her conviction and life sentence for the first-degree murder of Tiki Laverdiere.In a decision released Dec. 11, the court dismissed Whitstone's application for leave to appeal a Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruling that uph...
Dec 12, 2025
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MUNICIPAL MATTERS
North Battleford creates economic task force as major retail spaces sit empty
North Battleford is moving to strengthen its economic strategy with a new advisory committee, as a recent retail analysis shows the city is facing high vacancy rates, major empty commercial spaces and significant leakage of regional spending to other centres.Council approved the creation of the North Battleford Economi...
Dec 11, 2025
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Saskatchewan

History
Documentary shines light on wartime Japanese attack balloons that landed in Canada
The deployment of thousands of hydrogen balloons carrying deadly explosives sent to North America during the Second World War is the subject of a documentary make by Saskatchewan filmmaker Scott Woroniuk.Woroniuk, a videographer and owner of Crosscut Films, has just released FU-GO: Japan's WW2 Balloon Bombs Over Canada...
22h ago
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Big Bust
P.A. Police charge Tisdale man following major drugs, weapon seizure
A 29-year-old man from Tisdale is facing a laundry list of charges after a drug trafficking investigation yielded roughly 20 pounds of various drugs and multiple firearms. It all started on Tuesday, Dec. 9, when the RCMP and Prince Albert Police Crime Reduction Teams, along with RCMP's Critical Incident Response Team, ...
Dec 12, 2025
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Community support
Red Cross program supports Sask. businesses, nonprofits affected by 2025 wildfires
Businesses and nonprofits affected by the wildfires that ripped through Saskatchewan over the summer could be eligible for $2,000 in financial support through a new program by the Canadian Red Cross.The program, which is funded through a $15 million commitment from the Government of Saskatchewan, offers the funds to bu...
Dec 12, 2025
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BRAVERY
'Without hesitation': Lloydminster firefighter recognized with national honour for off-duty rescue
On a quiet winter morning nearly five years ago, when most of Lloydminster was still asleep, a flicker of orange rose above a cul-de-sac on the Alberta side of the border.It was just after 6 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2021, when flames began chewing their way up the exterior of a two-storey home, racing into the garage and swall...
Dec 11, 2025
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Cold snap
Arctic air leading to frigid conditions over the next couple of days
It's a good news, bad news forecast over the next couple of days for the province. The snowy, blustery conditions we have been experiencing will finally give way to some sunshine. The downside is that the sun will bring with it some frigid temperatures. Christy Climenhaga of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)...
Dec 11, 2025
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Resolution
Fatal stabbing at Mistawasis First Nation results in 7 year prison sentence
A man who claimed he was acting in self-defence when he stabbed another man seven times with a kitchen knife, has received a seven year prison sentence.With remand credit, Roy Lasas has roughly 13 months left to serve and will then be subject to two years of probation.Thursday morning's sentencing at Court of King's Be...
Dec 11, 2025
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Canada

Canadian politicians, community groups share support after Australia Hannukah attack
TORONTO - Canadian politicians and community groups are sharing messages of support after at least 16 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians stand with Jewish people in A...
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Canadian English supporters urge Carney to abandon federal shift to British spelling
OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, five linguistics experts and an editor...
1h ago
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Highway 1 out of Abbotsford reopened, flood evacuation orders may be lifted
ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford fire chief Erick Peterson says the city is hoping to lift remaining evacuation orders for more than 300 properties in the Sumas Prairie today, as floodwaters in the city recede. Peterson says the city is still maintaining an up...
2h ago
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Fate of OneBC party uncertain after MLA Dallas Brodie 'removed' as leader
OneBC, the party formed after a split with the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been "removed" by the party's board of directors. The party's only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says ...
2h ago
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'Choose light over darkness:' Hanukkah celebrations to go ahead despite attack abroad
TORONTO - The rabbi of a Toronto synagogue says Hanukkah celebrations would continue as planned in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia on Sunday. Levi Gansburg, the rabbi at Chabad on Bayview, says his synagogue w...
4h ago
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BC Floods
More wet weather expected for B.C.'s already flood soaked Fraser Valley
Flooding woes in B.C.'s Fraser Valley don't appear to be over this morning as Environment Canada forecasts more rain for the already soggy region.While many evacuation alerts were rescinded by the City of Abbotsford on Saturday, the weather forecast calls for a "potentially significant push of moisture" for M...
5h ago
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World News

Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski describes Belarus prison ordeal in first interview after release
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, direct from a dentist appointment. The 63-year-old veter...
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Australia Attack
'Vile act of violence': Gunmen kill at least 11 people in terrorist attack at Hannukah event in Australia
Two gunmen attacked a Hannukah celebration on a Sydney beach Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitism and terrorism.The massacre at one of Australia's most popular and iconic beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the co...
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Police have person of interest in custody over Brown University deadly shooting
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police in Rhode Island said early Sunday that they had a suspect in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during final exams, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded. ...
10h ago
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Chile holds an election that could deliver its most right-wing president since dictatorship
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - As Chileans vote on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections is likely to become the country's next leade...
10h ago
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US envoys arrive in Berlin for another round of Ukraine peace talks
BERLIN (AP) - U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin Sunday morning for another round of talks intended to secure a deal to end the war in Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jar...
11h ago
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Gunmen kill at least 15 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach
SYDNEY (AP) - Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that ...
12h ago
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