From sunrise pancake breakfasts to fireworks after dark, communities across Saskatchewan are preparing to celebrate Canada Day on Wednesday, July 1, with a full day of family activities, live entertainment and local traditions.In North Battleford, festivities will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the InnovationPlex, where...

More than 10,000 visits from countries including China, Singapore and Germany showed up in North Battleford's website analytics last year - an unexpected finding in the city's 2025 annual report that prompted a closer look at how the prairie community is quietly becoming more international.The answer isn't found in web...

Nominations remain open for the second class of the Battleford Arena Wall of Fame, with the Town of Battleford encouraging residents to recognize athletes, teams and builders who have helped shape local ice sports.The Wall of Fame honours contributions to hockey and figure skating by those with a strong connection to B...

June 26 was a sunny Friday for high school graduations around the Battlefords, including Sakewew High School's ceremony at Don Ross Arena. Just shy of 30 graduates had the opportunity to hear their names called and receive the diplomas they had been working toward over the last four years. Two of those graduates were c...

A Venezuelan woman living in Saskatoon says the emotional toll of the disaster that struck her home country is being felt far beyond its borders.On Wednesday, two powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck the country, killing hundreds and injuring thousands more. The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude quakes were some of the stronge...

Canada's first FIFA World Cup knockout stage match in Los Angles on Sunday ended in a 1-0 victory, with the country taking on South Africa in a highly anticipated showdown.A late goal from Stephen Eustáquio sealed the win for Team Canada, who are now off to the round of 16 where they'll play the winner of Nether...

The final bell may have signalled the end of the school year, but for Saskatchewan teachers the pressures of the classroom aren't packing up for summer.Samantha Becotte, President of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, said new supports are starting to make a difference but warns that crowded classrooms, rising comp...

Kim Sheppard-Lee watched the young emu squeeze through a small gap in a fence the Wednesday before last and disappear across an alfalfa field just hours after it arrived at her hobby farm in Luseland."I actually saw him do it," she recalled. "By the time that I could get the fence undone and get out to h...

Our bodies completely overhaul our bones every seven to 10 years, breaking down old or damaged bone tissue and replacing it with new bone, and for decades global medical experts have operating under the assumption that there were only four biological processes through which bones regenerate.Now, a groundbreaking discov...

A special water ceremony, held the day after Summer Solstice, immersed participants in their earliest experiences as human beings."It's about being carried again. To teach your spirit to feel safe inside of your own body," said Daphie Pooyak, water knowledge keeper and leader of the water ceremony."When ...

TORONTO - Doctors are urging people to seek medical attention if they have any contact with bats to prevent potential rabies infection. In Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, infectious disease physicians described the case of ...

VANCOUVER - Search and rescue officials in British Columbia say six people are still believed to be in the waters off of Vancouver airport after a marine rescue. Capt. Pedram Mohyeddin, a public affairs officer with the Canadian Armed Forces, says the...

MONTREAL - Valery Fabrikant, who shot four people dead at Concordia University in 1992, died in a Quebec prison on Saturday. Correctional Service Canada put out a news release on Sunday stating he had died of apparent natural causes at the age of 86. F...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Parliament to probe Ottawa's proposal to convert unsold condominium units in British Columbia into affordable housing. In a letter to the House ethics committee, Poilievre says a program to po...

MONTREAL - Arminda Casanova said her son never learned to write in his mother tongue of Spanish after attending several years of school in French in Montreal. The mother and her son came to Canada from Mexico as asylum seekers in 2022 to reunite with h...

ST. JOHN'S - The agency that oversees Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore energy sector says a recent oil spill and gas leak aboard the Hibernia oil platform could have caused a deadly explosion and fire. The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistani security forces Sunday carried out a ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by "calibrated strikes" against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters, officials said. In a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - All 14 people on board were killed in Saudi Arabia when a helicopter belonging to the world's largest oil company crashed on Sunday morning, according to the Saudi Ministry of Energy. The accident occurr...

NANCY, France (AP) - A skydiving plane crashed in northeastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said. The plane suffered a malfunction and "fell almost vertically" after taking off from the Nancy-Essey airfie...

BEAVER, Utah (AP) - Three firefighters died and two were injured while tackling fires on the Colorado-Utah border, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service reported Sunday. The agency - created earlier this year to streamline firefighting and fire ...

Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in a politically charged tournament where the team played its matches amid tight restrictions imposed by the United States. Iran missed the roun...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Louisiana on Saturday, giving President Donald Trump a win after he backed her to replace GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy. Letlow, who was endorsed by ...