A new provincial health-care plan aimed at expanding access to care could benefit residents in the Battlefords, Jeremy Cockrill says. The Battlefords MLA and Saskatchewan Health Minister pointed to the recently released Patients First Health Care Plan, saying recent recruitment efforts have already strengthened the loc...

An 18-year-old man is facing a robbery charge following an incident reported in Battleford over the weekend.Battlefords RCMP say officers received a report of a robbery around 8 a.m. on March 14 at 19th Street West in Battleford. Police said a man entered a vehicle on the street, where an altercation occurred with the ...

For 42-year-old Albert Oborowsky, winning a gold medal at his first wrestling tournament meant not letting excuses stop him. "I've got bad knees, back, arthritis all over, but I just keep on going," he laughed. Oborowsky began grappling at Warrior Spirit Martial Arts Academy in North Battleford nine months ...

A North Battleford taxi company is raising funds and preparing new safety measures after one of its employees was killed during a pickup call last week.Crown Cab owner Haris Korath said the company decided to donate all of its sales for March 16 to the family of Davinder Singh, the victim.Korath said the family is stil...

A Canadian defence expert says there's "not much" Canada could do in the Persian Gulf region right now to protect the critical Strait of Hormuz, even if it wanted to.David Perry, president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, says the Canadian Armed Forces does not have many available assets suited to in...

A 16-year-old girl was handed a three-year sentence on Monday for lighting a fellow student on fire at Saskatoon's Evan Hardy Collegiate in 2024.Last month, the Crown and defence jointly requested a three-year sentence for the attacker: two years in custody and one in the community with no credit for time already serve...

Statistics Canada says the annual rate of inflation dipped below two per cent in February as the end of last year's federal "tax holiday" helped to take some steam out of the yearly price comparisons.The agency says inflation last month came in at 1.8 per cent year-over-year, half a percentage point lower tha...

A man who was accused in the killing of Megan Gallagher before the charges were later stayed will soon be back in court, facing a new set of unrelated charges.Thomas Sutherland, 46, was arrested on January 26. He's facing multiple weapon-related charges in addition to other charges that include possessing a loaded, pro...

LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney met Monday with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, and while both remarked the world has become a more challenging place since their first meeting a year ago, neither named a specific issue.Bill Blair, Canada's high commissioner to the U.K., has said the two leaders are expected ...

A new private members' bill from the Saskatchewan NDP is aiming to lighten the mental and financial load on people getting cancer care in the province.Jared Clarke, the NDP's rural and remote health critic, said the bill would ban parking fees for people who are attending a Saskatchewan Health Authority facility to rec...

VICTORIA - A legislator of Filipino descent who was at the scene of last year's deadly ramming attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival is calling for this year's event to be cancelled, saying it will trigger some in the still-traumatized community. Mable ...

OTTAWA - AI systems depend on Canadian journalism for the information they provide users but don't offer compensation or proper attribution in return, says a new study. Researchers at McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy teste...

OTTAWA - A Canadian defence expert says there's "not much" Canada could do in the Persian Gulf region right now to protect the critical Strait of Hormuz, even if it wanted to. David Perry, president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, says the Ca...

OTTAWA - Some of Canada's most prominent conservation groups say Ottawa is putting at risk its goals to protect nearly one-third of Canada's land and waterways, with tens of millions of dollars in federal funding about to run out. Canada has committed ...

TORONTO - Canada Soccer is receiving $300,000 from the federal government to expand youth engagement initiatives across the country. Adam van Koeverden, the secretary of state for sport, announced the funding on Monday ahead of the FIFA men's World Cup...

Via Rail needs to improve its service - punctuality, in particular - according to Canada's auditor general, who nonetheless gave solid marks to the Crown corporation's management practices. In a report, Karen Hogan said that over the past decade Via ha...

NEW YORK (AP) - A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists was released Monday after a year in custody, according to her lawyers. ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - Bombs exploded in at least three locations in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state Monday night, killing and injuring scores of people, the emergency services told The Associated Press, citing possible suicide bombings. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration's push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria. The justices ref...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The spokesman for Afghanistan's Health Ministry, Sharafat Zaman, said Monday that more than 200 people have been killed in a strike by Pakistan on a hospital for drug addicts in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Pakista...

HAVANA (AP) - Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A leading soccer official in Asia says Iran is still set to play at the World Cup which kicks off in June in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Also on Monday in Tehran, a government spokesman again stressed it was for ...