Community members from across the Battlefords will gather on June 6 for the fifth annual Suicide Awareness Walk, an event focused on honouring loved ones lost to suicide and raising awareness about mental health.For organizer Elvin Nicotine, the walk is deeply personal."My son committed suicide June 15th, 2020, in...

A Saturday morning apartment fire in the 1100 block of 104th Street forced about 40 North Battleford residents from their homes, though no injuries were reported. The NBFD said the fire started in the kitchen of a third-floor unit. Crews contained it to that suite, but there was significant water damage throughout the ...

For Edam's Kim Ernst, winning the Swift Shop The Co-op's $2,000 shopping spree felt almost unreal. After successfully calling the radio station in time after hearing her name over the airwaves, Ernst became one of 10 qualifiers for a shopping spree contest. On Saturday morning, finalists each picked a key for a chance ...

Donna Challis still remembers the first meeting in 1967 that led to the creation of Battlefords Community Players."We picked a play and we called for auditions; we had enough people to do it," she said. "The first attempt was less than stellar, there were more people in the play than there was in the aud...

Premier Scott Moe is assembling a team to help inform him as the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) review will begin on July 1.The Premier's Advisory Council on CUSMA has already hosted a session working with anyone in Saskatchewan who has a stake in the agreement, or significant exports to the U.S.The nego...

As multiple wildfires continue to burn across Saskatchewan and more than 1,300 residents are under evacuation orders and alerts, Saskatchewan's minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) said the province is focused and ready for what has quickly become an active fire season.Michael Weger, wh...

No homes or significant infrastructure has been lost to the Lobstick wildfire, despite unpredictable conditions for firefighters and the growth of the blaze to 19,000 hectares. The wildfire prompted the evacuation of about 130 people in the Rural Municipality of Shellbrook and put Holbein on an evacuation alert. Earlie...

Inside a Victoire home's wood-panelled living room are bins, boxes, and black garbage bags overflowing with the most important pieces of one family's life.It's everything that Pamela Wozniak and her three children were able to pack up in two hours before evacuating their home in the RM of the Shellbrook Friday night an...

The month of May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month in Canada. Inspector Ashley St. Germaine with the Saskatchewan RCMP said this year, they have shifted their approach when it comes to the key messaging for prevention. "Historically, we've always seen it as tips on how to keep yourself safe, but we're looking at...

The Lobstick fire is now 19,000 hectares in size, which is approximately the size of the City of Regina or 38 football fields.It is one of ten active wildfires in the province burning Saturday. The minister responsible for Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) Michael Weger said the blaze, which started between Duck...

VANCOUVER - Kerry-Lynne Findlay won the B.C. Conservative leadership race because she is an "authentic champion" of populism within the broader conservative movement, says an analyst who studies modern conservatism in western countries. David Black, w...

MONTREAL - Quebec's national library is moving ahead with plans to create a database of cultural and government content that could be used to train artificial intelligence systems and improve their understanding of Quebec society, culture and Indigenou...

OTTAWA - Several health organizations are urging the federal government to bring down nicotine use among Canadians to less than five per cent of the population by 2045, as vaping among youth rises. Les Hagen, executive director of Action on Smoking and...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's police watchdog is investigating a man's death after he allegedly slammed into a car and held a teen hostage in a burning home. Winnipeg police say the chaotic scene involving a 34-year-old man began on Friday just before 10:30 a....

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is stepping up his attack on Liberal policies with a call for an emergency parliamentary debate on the economy. Statistics Canada said Friday the economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row ...

Christine Nayler spent only four days with her newborn daughter after giving birth at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982, before her baby was taken away from her. Then a 15-year-old expectant mother living in Toronto, Nayler was sent to a rel...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The U.S. military said Monday it was targeting Iranian radar and drone control sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American MQ-1 Predator drone this weekend. Kuwait meanwhile said its air defenses ha...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Polls opened Monday in Ethiopia in an election that is widely expected to be won by the ruling party. A heavy military presence was observed in the capital, Addis Ababa, as observers called for a peaceful elec...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) - Tough-on-crime outsider Aberaldo de la Espriella took the lead in Colombia's presidential race in the first round of voting Sunday night, setting up a runoff with Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia's outgoing President Gustavo Pet...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Brooklyn Rivera, a renowned Indigenous leader from Nicaragua who spent years fighting for the rights of his community and was imprisoned by the government in September 2023, has died. The Nicaraguan government...

BANGKOK (AP) - A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar said to have been storing explosives for mining has killed more than 45 people, according to rescue workers and independent media reports. About 70 other people were i...

BEIRUT (AP) - Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century, the military said Sunday, while U.S. Secretary of State sp...