Two people are facing multiple charges after the RCMP's North Battleford Crime Reduction Team (CRT), who were on patrol around Onion Lake last weekend arrested them after they initially ran a stop sign in a stolen vehicle. According to police, the forty-year-old man from Lloydminster and a 21-year-old woman from Onion ...

Anyone looking to jump into municipal politics in North Battleford will first have to submit a criminal record check. During the city council meeting on Monday night, a bylaw was proposed and adopted that will require all those seeking to run for the role of mayor or as a councillor, would first need to pass a criminal...

Two men have been charged with the 2023 homicide of Lee Bearsears. According to RCMP, Craig Fox, from Little Pine First Nation has been charged with one count of second-degree murder and a man from Poundmaker, Preston Checkosis has been charged with one count of accessory after the fact. Both are set to appear in North...

UPDATE: Police have cleared the scene and the roads should reopen shortly.-A police matter has led to the closure of both lanes of the Highway 4 bridge southbound to the Town of Battleford. The Highway 16 bypass by Humpty's is also shut down. RCMP closed the roads shortly before 1 p.m. An alert from the City of North B...

Thomas Sierzycki, a former mayor of La Ronge, will be relocating to Prince Albert as he joins the Saskatchewan Marshal Service as the executive director of operational support. "Oftentimes, you don't get to have an opportunity in a career where you are building something new, being part of that, assisting and bein...

The annual inflation rate unexpectedly ticked higher in May, raising doubts about what the Bank of Canada will do when it makes its next interest rate decision in July in "bumpy and choppy" conditions.Statistics Canada said Tuesday the annual rose to 2.9 per cent in May, compared with 2.7 per cent in April.Th...

The Government of Saskatchewan says it won't comply with the federal government's coming clean energy regulations because doing so would cost the provincial economy more than $7.1 billion.Ottawa's regulations, which are intended to move the nation towards the Liberal government's goal of zero-emission electricity gener...

Carrot River has been hard at work cleaning up after a massive storm took out trees, roofs and power lines in the community.The town near Nipawin in the province's northeast was among the communities hit hardest by the series of severe storms that blew through Saskatchewan on Sunday evening.Widespread damage was report...

The Edmonton Oilers failed to drag the Stanley Cup back to Alberta for a sixth time after a nerve-wracking Game 7 in Florida on Monday. The Florida Panthers won the low-scoring game 2-1.The Oilers won their fifth and last Stanley Cup in 1990. They hoped to turn back the clock to 1942 - the last and only time an NHL tea...

It wasn't a pleasant evening in the Town of Carrot River on Sunday, as a heavy storm laid waste to trees, power lines, roofs, and anything else it could get its hands on, throughout the community.(Submitted photo/Jordan SInclair)The northeast municipality is now having to deal with the aftermath, as the power has been ...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Mounties and a Crown prosecutor are set to provide an update today on an investigation into a bus crash that killed 17 people. RCMP say the prosecutor is to discuss a decision about charges relating to the crash last June near Carberry, west of Winnipeg. The bus, carrying seniors to a casino, collid...

OTTAWA - It has impressive research bench strength. It has billions of federal dollars for the taking. It's kind of a nice place to live. But when it comes to turning knowledge of artificial intelligence into companies, products and investment, Canada is lagging behind - and, some experts argue, actively shooting itsel...

MONTREAL - The world is full of dangers when you're a falcon chick less than six weeks old and learning to fly - even if you're a member of the fastest species on Earth. This week, three falcon chicks named Hugo, Polo and Estebane started to spread their wings around the nest site on the 23rd floor of the Universit&eac...

The Canadian Press has spent the past month interviewing some of Canada's more than 11,000 centenarians and their families. These are some of their stories. 'EVERYONE LOOKS AT YOU AS IF YOU SHOULD HAVE WRINKLES' When asked how it feels to be 100 years old, Betty McGowan answered, "it's terrible!" "Everyo...

OTTAWA - An organizer who encouraged Jewish residents to vote against the Liberals in this week's Toronto byelection suggests a rise in antisemitism motivated many to show up at the polls. Andrew Kirsch, the riding's Progressive Conservative candidate in the 2018 provincial election, helped launch the Jewish Ally group...

LYTTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Three years after a wildfire destroyed much of the British Columbia village of Lytton, the tiny Fraser Canyon community is still struggling to get back on its feet. Mayor Denise O'Connor told a news conference ahead of the anniversary that there's good news, with the first building pe...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia on espionage charges, appeared in a court in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday for the opening hearing of his trial. Gershkovich was detained while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city in March 2023. The Russian authorities alleged he was "gather...

PROVO, Utah (AP) - Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is likely to win a second term after he beat his primary challenger on Tuesday. Cox, a moderate Republican who took office in 2021, prevailed in the primary after he was booed earlier this year by GOP convention delegates, who tend to lean farther right. Utah's more muted Republ...

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, of New York, on Tuesday in a Democratic primary that highlighted the party's deep divisions over the war in Gaza. With the victory, Latimer has almost certainly ousted one of the most liberal voices in Congress and one of its most outspoken critic...

DENVER (AP) - U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won the Republican primary in a U.S. House race that she jumped into last year, surviving a scandal over a video of her at a Denver theater and accusations of carpetbagging after fleeing what could have been a tough reelection bid in her current district. Boebert built national ha...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sheri Biggs, a nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer, won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 3rd District on Tuesday. Biggs was backed by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster. She and her husband were longtime friends and financial backers of the governor. Biggs...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked a judge's order to give house arrest to journalist José Rubén Zamora, known for railing against corruption in the Central American country. The reporter has been in prison for two years, something that has sparked outrage by press freedom...