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New uranium mines to push Saskatchewan into ‘new era’
The approval of two uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan is helping the sector pick up some momentum. Two mines were given the green light from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission earlier this ye...
Apr 02, 2026 NexGen Energy Ltd.'s Rook I Project in the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan. (Image Credit: NexGen Energy Ltd./file)
North Battleford backs Red Pheasant bid for new band office study
The City of North Battleford has agreed to partner with Red Pheasant Cree Nation to support a federal funding application for a feasibility study on a proposed band office.Council approved the partner...
Apr 02, 2026 (Image Credit: file photo/battlefordsNOW)
Provinces celebrates winter Olympic and Paralympic team members
A total of 27 athletes, coaches, officials and support staff with Saskatchewan ties represented the province at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Italy. They were recogniz...
Apr 02, 2026 Kurt Oatway, who trains in Fort Qu'Appelle, competes in the Men’s Super G Sitting at the 2026 Paralympic Games in Cortina, Italy on March 9, 2026. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout – CANADIAN PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE, Angela Burger)
CPR training to be offered in Saskatchewan schools next year
Saskatchewan students could soon be learning how to save lives in the classroom.Beginning in the 2026-27 school year, school divisions across the province will have the option to offer CPR and automat...
Apr 02, 2026 (Image Credit: ID 20401255 © Brian T. Young | Dreamstime.com)
US crude tops $110 per barrel and Wall Street tumbles after Trump vows to escalate attacks on Iran
Oil rose more than 10% and U.S. futures tumbled Thursday after President Donald Trump said in his first national address since the Iran war began that the United States will escalate its campaign in t...
Apr 02, 2026 President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (Image Credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP Pool)
Canadians gather to watch Artemis II moon launch
Canadians across the country watched the launch of Artemis II with a mix of excitement and nervousness, erupting into loud applause at the sight of the fiery liftoff of the historic moon mission.Gathe...
Apr 01, 2026 NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad39-B Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Image Credit: AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Century-old artifacts return home to Poundmaker Cree Nation
For decades, they were kept in private hands: a buffalo horn headdress and a carved wooden club, carefully stored, rarely questioned.They were seen as artwork, but would come to be understood as somet...
Apr 01, 2026 From left, Carol (Burdett) Hewitt and Bob Hewitt sit at their home in Victoria, B.C., with the historical artifacts on the day Floyd Favel visited to collect them in February 2026. (Image Credit: Floyd Favel)
OLCN Scouts play underdogs to win inaugural USPHL Premier Alberta Division title
The Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN) Scouts have written themselves into the history books. The Junior A hockey club claimed the first-ever Alberta Division title within the United States Premier Hockey ...
Apr 01, 2026 Players, coaches, and staff of the OLCN Scouts pose for a celebratory photo after winning the USPHL Premier's Alberta Division over the Calgary Bandits at the Cardel South Recreation Centre in Calgary on March 31, 2026. (Image Credit: Onion Lake Scouts Jr. Hockey Club/Facebook)
Two charged after RCMP seize suspected methamphetamine hidden in pizza box
It certainly wasn't the topping police expected to find when they opened a pizza box after a recent traffic stop: meth. On March 28, RCMP conducted a traffic stop in the town of Battleford in relation...
Apr 01, 2026 Suspected methamphetamine found in a pizza box. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan RCMP)
RCMP provide insight into highway shooting near Edmonton
More details have been released about the circumstances that led to an 18-year-old Lloydminster man being charged with second-degree murder, after a fatal shooting on a highway south of Edmonton last ...
Apr 01, 2026 Birinder Singh, 22, is shown in this undated photo. Singh was killed in a highway shooting near Leduc, Alta., on March 14, 2026. (Image Credit: GoFundMe.com/ Punarmeet Singh)