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Canada boosting Sask. efforts to get Beijing to scrap canola tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney's office said he is sending his parliamentary secretary to China to join Saskatchewan's efforts to get Beijing to scrap its canola tariffs and address other "trade irritants...
Sep 04, 2025
RCMP: Man with nation-wide warrant has connections to North Battleford
Alberta RCMP are seeking public assistance in locating 41-year-old Christian Nyabirungu, who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. Nyabirungu is wanted for first-degree murder, kidnapping, and aggravate...
Sep 04, 2025
BC Wildfire Service says civilian drone hit firefighting plane
KAMLOOPS - The BC Wildfire Service says police are investigating after one of its firefighting aircraft was struck by a civilian drone that was being illegally flown in restricted airspace. It says th...
Sep 04, 2025
Former North Battleford councillor gets 24-month suspended sentence in assault case
After pleading guilty to assault, former city councillor Ross MacAngus was given a 24-month suspended sentence and probation Thursday in the North Battleford provincial court. MacAngus admitted to gra...
Sep 04, 2025
Saskatchewan harvest continues to lag behind five year average
The hot weather allowed farmers in Saskatchewan to make headway with the 2025 harvest. The crop report for the week of Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 showed provincial progress at 23 per cent, up from 11 per cent...
Sep 04, 2025
Officials, Indigenous leaders respond to mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation
WINNIPEG - A man killed his sister and wounded several others in a mass stabbing on the Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba on Thursday. RCMP said Tyrone Simard, 26, then fled in a stolen vehicle an...
Sep 04, 2025
Trump will seek 'Department of War' rebrand for Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of toughness for A...
Sep 04, 2025
Sask. man faces 16 charges after Lloydminster RCMP traffic stop bust
A RCMP traffic stop in Lloydminster led to the seizure of drugs, firearms and other weapons, and resulted in 16 charges against a Saskatchewan man.Police said they were called around 6:30 a.m. Wednesd...
Sep 04, 2025
Communities 'can't keep up with the grieving,' Sask. NDP says, as province notes drug deaths declining
The province's drug crisis is claiming lives at an alarming rate, and the government has failed to respond with the urgency the situation demands, Saskatchewan's NDP critic for mental health and addic...
Sep 04, 2025
Timeline of mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation, attacker dies in crash
WINNIPEG - RCMP say a man killed his sister and wounded several others Thursday in a stabbing rampage on a Manitoba First Nation. He then fled and was killed in a highway crash with a Mountie who was ...
Sep 04, 2025