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The Right Call Beats a Close Call: Check Highway Hotline, Give Snowplows Space
Highways Minister David Marit reminded drivers heading to Canadian Western Agribition to make the right call by checking road conditions before getting behind the wheel, along with urging them to prot...
Nov 26, 2025

Thomas King's revelation he is not Indigenous sends ripples through culture sector
Thomas King's revelation that he has no Indigenous ancestry sent ripples through Canada's cultural sector, while raising questions about what responsibility a person has when they claim a heritage the...
Nov 26, 2025

Ottawa invests more than $500K in Battlefords effort to prevent youth substance-use harms
A national investment in youth-substance-use prevention will help expand long-term, community-driven work already underway in the Battlefords, the Public Health Agency of Canada says.The federal agenc...
Nov 26, 2025

'December to remember': Winter will get off to an abrupt start, Weather Network says
Blasts of frigid Arctic air could send temperatures tumbling in December and herald the arrival of a more "traditional Canadian winter," a meteorologist for the Weather Network predicts as it releases...
Nov 26, 2025

Concerns raised about AI-powered toys and creativity, development as holiday shopping peaks
As parents hunt for gifts that will wow their kids this holiday season, Canadian child development and psychology experts say they should be wary of AI-powered toys because of possible harms, ranging ...
Nov 26, 2025

Semi-truck rollover on bridge near Battleford sends one to hospital
One person was taken to the hospital after a semi-truck crash on a bridge just outside Battleford late Tuesday afternoon.WPD Ambulance says paramedics were called to the single-vehicle collision at ab...
Nov 25, 2025

Elderly driver killed in two-vehicle crash north of Lloydminster, RCMP say
RCMP in Maidstone are investigating a fatal two-vehicle collision north of Lloydminster that left an 88-year-old Alberta man dead.Police were called around 6 p.m. Monday to a crash near the intersecti...
Nov 25, 2025

RCMP count 11 fatal motor vehicle collisions in November
In a release issued earlier today, the Saskatchewan RCMP have revealed troubling numbers around fatal vehicle collisions in the province. In the period of November 1 to 25, the province has seen a tot...
Nov 25, 2025

KidSport sets $1 million goal for national fundraising campaign
With a goal of raising over a million dollars Canada wide, KidSport has launched the 14th annual Give the Gift of Sport campaign.Supported by all 176 KidSport community chapters, the campaign that run...
Nov 25, 2025

Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation celebrates acquisition of three new businesses
Monday afternoon, the members of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation all congregated at the old Olive Tree Restaurant and Blacktop Diner on Highway 12 to celebrate a new beginning for the building, and new be...
Nov 25, 2025