Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan to make changes to age requirements for purchasing tobacco products

The Saskatchewan government has passed a bill raising the minimum age to legally buy tobacco and vapour products to 19 from 18. The change aligns age restrictions for smoking and vaping with those on ...

Nov 08, 2023

Frontline staff in Sask. feel hopeless due to lack of government funding

Warning: This story contains the mention of suicide.Workers at some Saskatchewan community-based organizations (CBOs) say they haven't received a raise in more than a decade.A group of CBO employees w...

Nov 08, 2023

RCMP say several injured after coach bus rolls over in Saskatchewan

Firefighters had to break windows to free people trapped in a coach bus that rolled Wednesday morning in southeast Saskatchewan. Dwayne Stone, the fire chief for the Town of Grenfell, said they were c...

Nov 08, 2023

Changes coming to Sask. high school graduation requirements

Starting in the 2024-25 school year, high school students in Saskatchewan will have different requirements to graduate - including taking a course on financial literary.In a media release Wednesday, t...

Nov 08, 2023

Trans-Canada closed from Wolseley to Manitoba border

It wasn't snowing Wednesday morning, but the weather still was having an impact on Saskatchewan highways.Just after 8:30 a.m., the Highway Hotline said the Trans-Canada Highway was closed from Wolsele...

Nov 08, 2023

John Gormley leaves flagship show after 25 years on Sask. airwaves

Rawlco Radio's John Gormley shared with listeners Wednesday morning that he is stepping away from his flagship radio show that has shaped Saskatchewan conversations for more than two decades.While hes...

Nov 08, 2023

Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan premiers emphasize call to be part of housing deals

The premiers of Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan say Canada's need for housing is too complex for provinces not to be at the table when Ottawa strikes housing deals with municipalities.The issue was a pro...

Nov 08, 2023

More Canadians could soon be leaving Gaza after names appear in latest document

More Canadians could soon be leaving Gaza after their names appeared in the latest published document by Gaza's General Authority of Crossings and Borders.The document on Wednesday contained 40 names ...

Nov 08, 2023

P.A. city council nixes suggestion to help homeless people return to home communities

A proposed plan by one city councillor to provide homeless people in Prince Albert with transportation back to their home communities has been nixed by council. Councillor Blake Edwards asked council ...

Nov 07, 2023

Saskatchewan man to pay $2,800 for illegally possessing zebras

It might cost the province $120,000 to provide care for the dazzle of zebras staying at the Forestry Farm Park & Zoo in Saskatoon, but a Saskatchewan man is paying just under $3,000 for holding th...

Nov 07, 2023