Two players from the Battlefords Sharks swapped skates for running shoes earlier last week.Sarah McNabb and former Shark Ayden Kehrig were in Calgary for the national ball hockey championships with the Saskatchewan Sabers. The Sabers fell 2-1 to Newfoundland United in the quarterfinals, but it was still a valuable expe...

There are few places where audiences can watch aerial performers overhead, acrobats on stage and motorcycles flying through the same tent, but North Battleford will soon be one of them.Geoffrey Berhault, owner and performer with Cirque de France, said the circus will bring its big top to North Battleford from Aug. 27 t...

Another successful trade show is helping the North Battleford Lions Club continue giving back to the community, but finding enough volunteers to keep it going is becoming the bigger challenge.The Lions held their 18th annual trade show over the weekend of Aug. 15 and 16 at the Battleford Arena, with about 50 vendors an...

On Aug. 13 and 14, Black Bear Indian Relay competed in its first event since a tragic barn fire claimed the lives of three of its horses. At the Northwest Territorial Days Indian Relay event in North Battleford, Black Bear finished fifth in the field of 19 teams after winning Friday's consolation heat. It was a tough r...

Meadow Lake's Colby Stanley is fresh off securing his second straight Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association championship, a title he said was made sweeter by winning close to home. Stanley, who grew up in Onion Lake and now lives in Meadow Lake, said chuckwagon racing has deep roots in both communities, where ho...

A necropsy on a bear that was euthanized after being caught in northern Saskatchewan near the spot a couple was recently killed, has confirmed the bear was indeed the animal involved. The provincial government confirmed the findings this afternoon, a month after Regina couple Jay and Deb MacDonald were found deceased ...

Members of James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) are going the distance this week to honour the anniversary of the signing of Treaty 6.A Unity Ride and Lance Run is slowing making its way to Fort Carlton with the four day journey beginning Monday morning with a pipe ceremony. Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson acknowledged...

Saskatchewan is looking to buy some high-tech weaponry for its marshals police service, including sniper rifles, sound cannons and a thermal camera.In a bid request posted online, the province says the marshals need the equipment for a special response unit.It says the unit also requires night vision goggles, hydraulic...

An Onion Lake man wanted on outstanding warrants is now facing drug trafficking and weapons charges after he tried to flee officers during an investigation in Edmonton, Alta.Saskatchewan RCMP said its Lloydminster Saskatchewan Trafficking Response Team was conducting an ongoing investigation in the city on Aug. 12 when...

Saskatchewan homeowners could face higher insurance premiums and more restrictions on coverage as severe weather events become more frequent and expensive, according to a University of Waterloo professor who studies climate risk and insurance.Jason Thistlethwaite, a professor at the university's School of Environment, ...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Demolition is underway at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in northern British Columbia, the site of a deadly mass shooting earlier this year. Photos posted to social media show excavators clawing at the building, tearing down the outsid...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Supreme Court has awarded more than $1 million in damages in a shooting that left a man with lifelong injuries and his wife traumatized after witnessing the violent confrontation. Anthony and Wendy Nelson of Sooke, B.C....

OTTAWA - Canada's top trade negotiators remained in Washington Monday for talks as the deadline looms for U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs to kick in. Here are some key issues in negotiations. Supply management The supply management system...

OTTAWA - The federal government moved last week to formally repeal the electric vehicle sales mandate, but the more stringent emission standards Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to replace it with is not close to being finalized. In a notice in the ...

OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee plans to hold hearings on Canada's security screening process following the arrest of a Canadian NATO intern on espionage allegations. The House of Commons public safety and national security committee agreed at a mee...

A Quebec-based laser firm that was bought by a Chinese company says the federal government has wrongfully refused to allow an American executive onto its board over concerns that its technology could be used to "benefit foreign militaries." CorActive ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a southern Philippine high school campus that he livestreamed using a body-worn camera, police and other...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has been reelected for a second five-year term, the Electoral Commission of Zambia announced early Tuesday. He was declared the outright winner of last Thursday's presidential ele...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked with building the wall visits Texas to do an "on-the...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - The defense began calling witnesses Monday in the emotionally charged trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who has admitted killing her three young children but blamed her actions on her failing mental health. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defame...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclearize Iran. Trump said in a social medi...