Spiritwood RCMP have turned to the public for help in locating a 26-year-old woman. Zoi Thomas was last seen on Tuesday afternoon at around 1 p.m. on the Big River First Nation. She is described as 5-5 and 170 pounds with medium-length brown hair and brown eyes. She also has a butterfly tattooed on her right foot along...

An Edmonton man charged with killing Teddy Whitehead on the Witchekan Lake First Nation last July is now being sought by Spiritwood RCMP. Nathaniel Sakebow, age 33, was charged with manslaughter last year along with 35-year-old Chase Cardinal, both in connection with Whitehead's death. Spiritwood police say on April 23...

The Battlefords AAA Stars recently held their annual team awards banquet, celebrating the best of the 2023-24 hockey season. While the team just missed the playoffs, they did see a seven-win improvement from the year prior, finishing the season 10th overall in the Saskatchewan Male AAA Hockey League (SMAAAHL), with a 1...

Realtor Susan Kramm described a recent broker call she had with other realty executives around the province. They had been discussing several industry-related items and then they moved on to what their community markets were doing. "North Battleford is just a direct contrast to everywhere else in the province,&quo...

The country's most comprehensive study on the effects of radiation on 90,000 Canadian uranium workers is delayed.Originally expected to have its final study results released this year, the study has been pushed back to 2026 due to data-collecting complications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada is the world's s...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan residents will continue to get carbon rebates even though the province has stopped remitting levies from natural gas to Ottawa. Trudeau said Tuesday in Saskatoon the Canada Revenue Agency has mechanisms to collect money the province owes. "We're going to continue to ...

It was a very wet welcome for the Governor General's first official visit to Saskatchewan on Monday.Gov. Gen. Mary Simon was set to spend three days in the province. On Monday, she started at the Legislative Building and Government House.Premier Scott Moe and other members of government greeted Simon at the building an...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon today.An itinerary released by his office says he will make an announcement this morning to highlight measures focused on youth, education, and health that were contained in last week's budget.Trudeau will be joined at the event by Dan Vandal, minister for Northern Aff...

A new report shows that a crisis affecting thousands of Saskatchewan people got incredibly worse during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published a study last week showing the number of opioid-related deaths nationwide from 2019-2021. In that period, the number of opio...

The Government of Saskatchewan is encouraging people in the province to face the issues of abusive relationships and domestic violence.The provincial government's "Face the Issue" awareness campaign continued last week with a series of five videos on social media aiming to help educate 18- to 24-year-olds abo...

WHITE ROCK, B.C. - A man has been killed in a stabbing in White Rock, B.C., and police say there are "apparent similarities" to another knife attack in the same area two days earlier. RCMP say the latest incident happened late Tuesday, when a man was reported to have been stabbed near the White Rock Pier. Pol...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service has announced a five-month open fire ban covering much of the province's Interior, as fire season gets off to an early start. The ban on Category 3 fires in the Kamloops fire centre will run from May 3 to Oct. 11 and will prohibit people burning three or more fires on a property...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's not going to comment on the future of TikTok in the United States, but his own government will continue to look out for Canadians' security. The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would force TikTok's parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, to sell the social-media app ...

MONTREAL - Some 5,000 Quebec liquor corporation workers have walked off the job for a planned two-day strike. Their union - Syndicat des employé(e)s de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ - confirmed at midnight on Facebook it was launching the strike after a lack of progress at the negotiating table. It says the t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canada Revenue Agency is "very, very good" at getting the money it's owed, and Saskatchewan's premier should take note of that. Scott Moe has pledged the province will not send Ottawa the money it collects from the federal carbon price on natural gas. That move ...

MONTREAL - A Quebec judge says police who searched a suspect carrying a "man purse" and found a loaded weapon inside did not engage in profiling. The case involves Marcus Nimeri, who was stopped by Montreal police in October 2023 and found to be carrying in his shoulder bag a handgun that had been illegally m...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., of New Jersey, died Wednesday after a heart attack this month that left him hospitalized, officials said. He was 65. In a statement, Gov. Phil Murphy called his fellow Democrat a "steadfast champion for the people of New Jersey." "With his signature bowtie...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new m...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court justices raised questions Wednesday about whether state bans on abortions during medical emergencies conflict with federal healthcare law after the sweeping ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. The case marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered a state ban since the nationwide rig...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that also includes a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in U.S. The announcement marks an end to long, painful battle with Republicans i...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face each other in Pennsylvania's high-stakes U.S. Senate contest this fall, as Tuesday's primary election put the men on track for a race that is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and help decide control of t...

SEATTLE (AP) - A former Washington state police officer wanted in two killings has been found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a chase in Oregon, authorities said Tuesday. His 1-year-old baby was taken safely into custody by Oregon State Patrol troopers. The troopers began chasing ex-Yakima, Washington off...