With the turn of the calendar to May, local golf courses around the Battlefords and area are teeing off for spring 2024, with strong turnouts kicking off the season in full swing.North Battleford Golf and Country Club At North Battleford Golf and Country Club, the course opened April 24, followed closely by their annua...

The Rotary Club of the Battlefords has stepped up in a big way to show its support to the Battlefords Humane Society's project to build a new animal shelter facility. The Rotary Club is fulfilling its total commitment to give $50,000 to the Humane Society for the project. The first $25,000 was donated about three years...

Just a year after taking home a silver medal as teammates at the 2023 Best of the West volleyball championship in Calgary, the Battlefords dynamic duo of Jadyn Bugg and Daley Vany have now claimed provincial gold with the 16U Sask Stealth, in Saskatoon.The Stealth lost just a single set in six matches on their way to t...

People in the North as well as across Saskatchewan will now have access to new spaces for detox treatment at Onion Lake Cree Nation, located 30 minutes north of Lloydminster. The province announced 15 detox addictions treatment beds would open to adults at Ekweskeet Healing Lodge to serve the area and anyone in the pro...

Saskatchewan's government appears firm in its position to steer clear of implementing a safe drug supply or decriminalization as members watch B.C.'s drug policies unfold. "I know the members opposite want to desperately convince the communities across Saskatchewan that there is somehow some safe use of an illicit...

Saskatchewan's child advocate is shining a spotlight on the growing number of suicide attempts by young people in government care.In her annual report, Lisa Broda, Saskatchewan's advocate for children and youth, said her office was notified of 48 suicide attempts in 2023 which resulted in a "critical injury,"...

RCMP have more opportunities to catch impaired drivers since introducing mandatory alcohol screening but some in Saskatchewan say the rules are still quite hazy.As of April 1, alcohol tests are now mandatory at all traffic stops and while cannabis screening is not part of that mandate, RCMP officers can use oral fluid ...

Saskatchewan's gross domestic product grew by 1.6 per cent in 2023, beating the national GDP growth of 1.2 per cent.According to figures released on Wednesday by Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan's GDP growth last year was tied with the Yukon, British Columbia and Ontario, but trailed Nunavut (3.4 per cent growth) and Pr...

All provincially regulated workplaces in Saskatchewan will soon need to have a violence policy and prevention plan in place.According to the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, changes to Saskatchewan's employment act come into effect on May 17, making the policies mandatory in workplaces regulated by th...

Starting Wednesday, clients using Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) and Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) are set to get a three per cent rise in income assistance benefits. "Depending on your individual situation, whether you have children or where you might live within the province that could var...

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says Canadian interest rates don't have to match U.S. or global rates, but there is a limit to how much they can diverge. Macklem made the comments while testifying before the House of Commons finance committee today. The governor says Canada is nowhere close to the limit when it co...

GATINEAU, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation. He says the new commissioner will ensure government is held to account for agreements, regardless of who is in power in Ottawa. He spoke to delegates today at a le...

TORONTO - Canada's financial intelligence agency says it has levied a $9.2-million penalty against The Toronto-Dominion Bank for non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing measures as the bank also faces compliance investigations in the U.S. The penalty by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analy...

TORONTO - A group of students at the University of Toronto say they have started a protest on campus to call on the university to cut its ties with Israel over the ongoing war in Gaza. The students say in a news release that they breached a newly-installed fence around an area on campus known as King's College Circle ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Israeli academics respond to campus protests One of the demands of pro-Palestinian activists who have set up protest encampments on university campuses in Canada and the United States is a severing o...

MONTREAL - One of the demands of pro-Palestinian activists who have set up protest encampments on university campuses in Canada and the United States is a severing of ties with Israeli universities. Tel Aviv University and other research institutions in Israel are accused of being accomplices in that country's war in G...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the right to protest but insisted that "order must prevail" as college campuses across the country face unrest over the war in Gaza. "Dissent is essential for democracy," he said at the White House. "But dissent must never lead to disor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police have begun removing barricades at a pro-Palestinian demonstrators' encampment on the UCLA campus. Thursday morning's law enforcement effort comes after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loud speakers if people did not disperse. Hundreds of people had gathered on campus, both inside...

BEIJING (AP) - The death toll climbed to 48 as search efforts continued in southern China on Thursday after a highway section collapsed in a mountainous area, sending more than 20 cars down a steep slope. Officials in the city of Meizhou said three other people were unidentified, pending DNA testing. It wasn't immediat...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Solomon Islands lawmakers on Thursday chose former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as the new prime minister of the South Pacific island nation that has grown closer to China in recent years. The withdrawal of pro-Beijing former Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare from the contest to make way ...

BEIJING (AP) - A section of a highway collapsed after heavy rains in southern China, sending cars tumbling down a slope and leaving at least 36 people dead, authorities said Thursday. The Meizhou city government said that 23 vehicles have been found in a pit after a 17.9-meter (58.7-foot) long section of the highway ga...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democrats in the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push Wednesday to repeal the state's long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions, which a court said can be enforced. Voting wasn't complete but the Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance the bill. Fourteen Democrats in the Senate were ...