Think twice before you drink it. RCMP in the Battlefords are warning the public not to consume unknown liquid beverages after receiving a report of a potentially hazardous substance circulating in the area.The warning, issued on Tuesday, comes as investigators examine multiple sudden deaths reported in the area over th...

Over the weekend, Battlefords Trailbreakers Snowmobile Club held their first annual vintage ride where riders stepped into old suites and started the engines to sleds dating back to the '60s. Among the riders eager to hit the trails were Chris Schultz and his two sons, Kurtis Schultz and Russell Schultz. Chris Schult...

The Town of Battleford is bringing in outside oversight as it prepares to begin work this spring on its $3.4-million arena expansion.Council has voted to accept a proposal from Colliers Project Leaders to assist with project management on the Battleford arena renovation, a move Mayor Ames Leslie says is aimed at protec...

Over 70 community members took part in the Battlefords Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY) fundraiser on Saturday evening, which helped raise nearly $55,000 for Territorial Youth Services (TYS). During the participant's two-kilometer or five-kilometer walk, they were confronted with the realities of youth experiencing hur...

As British Columbia joins a growing global movement away from Daylight Saving Time (DST), Saskatchewan's once-controversial stance appears increasingly ahead of its time.For six decades, Saskatchewan stood apart in Canada as the only province that didn't 'fall back' by an hour in November to extend evening daylight, or...

The first of multiple new tenants that are planned for the old pulp mill north of Prince Albert has been announced. BMI, the new owners, and Plum Gas Solution, an American company based in Michigan but with offices in Calgary and Drayton Valley, announced they signed an MOU on Tuesday. "As soon as we purchased t...

A woman who moved from Iran to Canada two years ago, and currently works in Saskatchewan as a lawyer, says the situation in her home country is far more complicated than what's being portrayed in the media and not every Iranian is in favor of an American-led incursion.The woman who asked to be identified only as S.M. o...

Former junior hockey coach Bernard (Bernie) Lynch will face several conditions once he's out of prison.In 2024, Lynch was sentenced to nearly three years for assaulting and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old-boy in August 1988.His statutory release is coming up, but the exact date is pending.According to Parole Board of...

Canada's main stock index was down over 1,000 points in early trading, while U.S. stock markets also fell amid fears about the war with Iran expanding and a sharp increase in the price of oil.The cost of crude was up as Iran launched a series of retaliatory attacks, including a drone strike on the U.S. Embassy in Saudi...

A former care worker accused of abusing vulnerable residents at a Wilkie group home will return to court this summer for closing arguments.Jaclyn Elias is charged with assault, sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon and uttering threats in connection with alleged incidents at Prairie Branches' Wilkie Group Home N...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to say whether he believes India is still behind acts of foreign interference and transnational repression in Canada. Six days after a senior official told Canadian journalists that India had stopped such...

The mayor of Prince George in northern British Columbia is the father of six adult children, who got used to the struggle of getting his kids out of bed on dark winter mornings as they were growing up. Those days are now behind Simon Yu, but he still h...

VANCOUVER - A man accused of killing another man at a Vancouver café patio says he found the knife he used in an alley and took it as a "sign from God" that he needed to protect himself. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 34, pleaded not guilty last month to secon...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are warning apartment residents of thieves using strands of hot glue to select which units they will break into. Vancouver police say that 10 apartment units in five separate buildings in the city and nearby Burnaby repo...

MONTREAL - A woman who has accused Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet of sexual misconduct once said she had felt "tracked" by him, a witness told a defamation trial in Montreal on Tuesday. Rev. Marcel Pellerin took the stand as a witness for Ouellet, a high...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for Canada to deepen its trade and security ties with the U.K., Australia and New Zealand in the face of an increasingly unpredictable world. In a speech in London on Tuesday, Poilievre called on...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and ex-Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley each won their party's U.S. Senate nominations in North Carolina on Tuesday, setting the bout for a fall campaign that could determine ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by the state this year after a record 19 executio...

PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East. Macron s...

WINDER, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday. Colin Gray also was found guilty of all ot...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital with a drone early Tuesday as it kept hitting targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Do...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell religious parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group. ...