A recent electrical failure at North Battleford's main water treatment plant is forcing council to decide whether or not to accelerate a major infrastructure upgrade expected to cost more than $770,000.A report going to Monday's council meeting said the F.E. Holliday Water Treatment Plant's motor control centre experie...

Flooding in the Meadow Lake region is holding steady as conditions stabilize, with crews still responding on the ground as cooler weather slows further water movement.During a media technical briefing Thursday, Tyler Harrison, manager of emergency services officers with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA), sai...

Years of hard work, and a lot of heart, are paying off for Battlefords Vintage Automobile Club. Roughly eight years ago, members took on the restoration project for a 1953 Chevrolet tow truck. Work is now nearing completion and is expected to wrap up this summer - a milestone that represents not just mechanical effort...

The Battlefords Humane Society is currently searching for people looking to adopt cats and dogs as the shelter is at max capacity. They are currently offering 50% off all adoptions until they are no longer at capacity, where they currently have approximately 120 animals. At the moment, the shelter has various breeds of...

The horses aren't racing yet.Not really.On a cold Prairie spring, they move in a steady routine instead - building strength, finding their breath again after a winter off. In the saddle, Jay Peeaychew is doing the same."We got invited to Calgary Stampede this year, and the season is on its way already," he sa...

Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) Community Development Corporation (CDC) has donated $20,000 to Battlefords Agricultural Society to help support renovations on the exterior of the Agrivilla building. Mary Graham, a lifetime member of the Ag Society, says they applied for a grant through BATC; that's how they re...

Most major highways in Saskatchewan were open for travel on Saturday morning, as people in southern and central parts of the province had to pull out snow blowers and shovels after snow and icy weather stormed its way across the province this week.Highway 16 near Borden was open again after being closed late Friday aft...

A federal judge has granted a last-minute reprieve for the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash, temporarily preventing his imminent deportation to India.Lawyers for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu appeared in Federal Court on Friday, hoping to avoid Sidhu's deportation, which was scheduled for Monday mor...

Lloydminster saw strong economic activity in 2025, with record land sales and hundreds of new businesses, but officials say workforce shortages, infrastructure limits and housing gaps are emerging as challenges to further growth.A year-end report presented to council shows the city generated about $2.1 million in land ...

After a full day of blowing snow across much of the province, highway conditions have deteriorated rapidly, and there is more snow on the way.Saskatchewan RCMP issued an advisory Friday afternoon that the worst conditions are in the central and northern parts of the province. Police said Warman RCMP are on scene and re...

A landmark anti-smoking law passed in the United Kingdom is drawing praise from health advocates in Saskatchewan, who say the move could help shape future policy closer to home.The U.K.'s Tobacco and Vapes Bill would ban anyone born after Dec. 31, 2008, from ever purchasing cigarettes, creating what officials are calli...

Changes are needed to streamline services for evacuees during emergencies like last year's wildfire, reads a report from the Saskatchewan Ombudman's office. The office received a record number of calls in 2025. That included 409 from the north, triple the previous year's number of 110. The report looked at how multipl...

When one goes to a hockey game, they are treated to nonstop back-and-forth action for 60 minutes. What they don't see is all the work the players do behind the scenes to get to a certain level. What they especially don't see is all the work that is done in the offseason to maintain that level. It's different for every ...

As the off-season winds down for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, president and CEO Craig Reynolds is still riding a high from last fall's Grey Cup championship.So, too, are the Roughriders' fans who have turned out in droves to purchase tickets ahead of kickoff for the 2026 Canadian Football League season."We've see...

A four-person panel made up of current and former professional hockey players, one being a Stanley Cup champion, helped kick off Senators Cup weekend in Prince Albert.Festivities for the 10th annual installment of the Indigenous tournament, hosted by the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), got underway on Thursday afte...

Completing a four game sweep on the road against the Yorkton Terriers, the Flin Flon Bombers have broken a curse that has lasted for 33 years. This was the fourth appearance in the SJHL Finals for the Bombers in the last five years, and finally they broke the streak with a 2-0 win on the road and their second Canterra ...

On April 25-26, the NationsWEST fieldhouse will be filled with pickleball players from all over for the Battlefords Pickleball Spring tournament. This year, the tournament is being held in memorial of Karen Williams, a member of the club who sadly passed away in December after a long battle with cancer. The field house...

While the weather hasn't permitted it yet, courses around the Battlefords are preparing for opening day with the season around the corner. North Battleford Golf and Country Club Like all the courses around the area, North Battleford Golf and Country Club (NBGCC), a 6,600-yard par 72/74 has been weathering the snow in r...

Battlefords, Saskatchewan - The Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head Lean Man (MGBHLM) First Nation hosted an update on its exciting Casino and Resorts economic development project on Tuesday April 14, 2026, at The Ridge Interpretive Centre, Battlefords, Saskatchewan. The approximately $100 million project, which includes an i...

The Saskatchewan First Nations Spelling Bee celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2026, bringing together 256 First Nations students from across the province for a day of learning, confidence‑building, and cultural pride. Held at Tommy Douglas Collegiate in Saskatoon, the event welcomed youths between the ages of 6 and ...

The Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA) is proud, for a third consecutive year, to be named a Saskatchewan Top Employer by Canada's Top 100 Employers. Now in its 21st year, Saskatchewan's Top Employers is a special designation that recognizes employers that lead their industries in offering exceptional places t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will be under pressure to show results from his economic agenda when his government tables an update to its fiscal outlook on Tuesday. The spring economic statement comes one year to the day after the party secured a...

SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU - The sound of singing rises up from the packed pews of St-Jean-l'Évangéliste Cathedral in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. But the congregation is dressed in blue, white and red Montreal Canadiens jerseys, and the song they're s...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government will move to ban children from using social media accounts and artificial intelligence chatbots, Premier Wab Kinew told fellow New Democrats on Saturday night. Kinew told some 900 people at a party fundraiser that the...

TORONTO - A Toronto patient who has been living with HIV for 27 years is in remission - and potentially cured, according to his doctors - after a bone marrow transplant from a donor naturally resistant to the virus. If he remains in remission for abou...

MONTREAL - Montreal's airport authority has installed a memorial to two Air Canada pilots who died in a runway collision at LaGuardia Airport last month. The memorial at the Jacques-de-Lesseps plane spotting park states that Antoine Forest and Mackenzi...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Governor General Mary Simon will be in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., next week to support the community's "ongoing healing journey" months after a deadly mass shooting claimed eight lives. The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General say...

LONDON (AP) - Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours. Sawe smashed the men's world record by winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. The tim...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) - An explosive device killed 13 people traveling on a bus in southwestern Colombia on Saturday, an attack the country's army chief described as a "terrorist act" that also left at least 38 injured as violence linked to drug traffi...

CHICAGO (AP) - A police officer died and another was critically injured after a man in police custody and receiving treatment at a Chicago hospital opened fire on them Saturday, according to officials. "Officers transported an individual...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Gunmen attacked several locations in Mali's capital and other cities early Saturday in a possible coordinated assault, residents and authorities said. Mali's army said in a statement that "unidentified armed terroris...

NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) - A volunteer firefighter died battling a wildfire in northern Florida while more than 120 homes have been destroyed in southeast Georgia and thousands more remain threatened by two large blazes, one of which investigators suspect was...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. The move, announced Friday and first reported...