It was an exciting time at this year's Hazee Awards at the Chapel Gallery Thursday night.Many talented youth were awarded for their entries in this year's competition, focusing on the theme of "Hope."About 41 pieces were entered in the annual event, now in its fifth year. Participants ranged from age six to 2...

A 31-year-old man is missing and the Battlefords RCMP are asking for the public's assistance. Jordan Thomas was last seen on April 27 and is about 6'2 and 200 lbs with a tattoo of lettering on his neck. According to police he travels to Saskatoon and Tisdale, however, his current location isn't known. If anyone has inf...

Fresh off their first North Sask River Baseball League (NSRBL) championship since the team's dynastic run of four straight from 1994-97, the North Battleford Beavers are now gearing up to begin their title defense, with the start of the 2024 senior ball season just over a week away.Player/coach with the Beavers, Kyle G...

Six years ago, the City of North Battleford commissioned a crime perception survey done. At the time, Maclean's Magazine had named North Battleford, which had a crime severity index that was five times the national average, Canada's "crime capital." Tarah Hodgkinson, lead researcher and assistant professor fr...

The reality of Indigenous-led policing in northern Saskatchewan took another big step. On Friday, the provincial and federal governments and Grand Chief Brian Hardlotte of the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), announced an investment of more than $1.4 million toward a study for implementing an Indigenous-led police s...

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) says it is not relocating its head office from Regina to Quebec.FCC is Canada's largest farm lender and has operated out of Saskatchewan for around 60 years.In a news release Thursday, the Saskatchewan United Party said the organization is planning to relocate its headquarters."Multiple hi...

The provincial government has released Orano Canada Inc. from decommissioning approvals and its associated surface lease on the Cluff Lake Project's mine.That follows the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) Record of Decision on May 11, 2023, to revoke the mine and mill operating licence. With the recent accept...

The CEO of the Saskatchewan Landlords Associations says a bump in pay for people living on social assistance, does not address the bigger problems at hand. Cameron Chouette is responding to a change that took effect on May 1, and sees monthly income assistance benefits rise by three per cent for Saskatchewan Income Sup...

Saskatchewan and Alberta have agreed to share and swap information about nuclear power generation. The governments of the two provinces have signed a memorandum of understanding.The two sides agree to keep each other informed on supply chains, workforce development, fuel supply and regulations around reactor technologi...

The story of a Prince Albert man frustrated that hospitals no longer offer free parking for cancer patients has made its way to the provincial legislature. Last month, paNOW, spoke with Prince Albert City Councillor Dennis Ogrodnick who took to social media to call out the government's decision to remove free parking p...

OTTAWA - Canada and Manitoba are partnering to launch an alert system that would inform the public when an Indigenous woman or girl goes missing, they announced Friday in Winnipeg, ahead of a national day to mark the crisis. The long-awaited Red Dress Alert system is a bid to prevent deaths and increase safe reunions w...

SURREY, B.C. - Homicide police in British Columbia say they will be providing a "significant update" on the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, amid reports that arrests have been made in the case. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he has been informed about the update by the RCMP in the ...

CARIBOO, B.C. - B.C. libraries have been targeted by a hacker who demanded a ransom or they would release user data that includes the phone numbers and email addresses of some clients. The Cariboo Regional District says its library was among those involved, and data was obtained about users who received automated notif...

OTTAWA - A public inquiry has found foreign meddling attempts didn't change who won the last two elections, but they may have changed the result in one riding in 2021. A preliminary report by commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue says the impact of foreign interference in particular ridings is uncertain, but the number...

OTTAWA - After holding public hearings and gathering evidence in private, inquiry commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue has released an interim report into foreign interference in Canada's last two general elections. The public inquiry was established after a series of media reports in the Globe and Mail and Global New...

OTTAWA - A public inquiry into allegations of foreign meddling in Canada's last two elections released its preliminary findings Friday, and concluded attempts to interfere did not impact the integrity of the 2021 and 2019 votes. The inquiry, led by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, provided a question-and-answer summa...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Lakers fired coach Darvin Ham on Friday after just two seasons in charge. The Lakers announced on social media that they were dismissing Ham four days after their season ended with a first-round playoff loss to Denver in five games. Ham led Los Angeles to the Western Conference finals...

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) - A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state's youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state's negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen. David Meehan went to police in 201...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas denied any wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictments related to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. The longtime congressman released a statement Friday saying he and his wife "are innocent of these allegations." "Everything I have ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Officials in Houston are urging residents to prepare for worsening flooding after days of heavy rains that have led to high-water rescues and mandatory evacuation orders. "This threat is ongoing and it's going to get worse. It is not your typical river flood," Hidalgo County Judge Lina Hidalgo,...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hope Hicks, a former longtime adviser to Donald Trump, took the witness stand Friday in his criminal trial, where prosecutors are expected to question her about her knowledge of hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hicks, who served as White House communications director, is t...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hope Hicks, who served as Donald Trump's 2016 campaign press secretary and went on to hold various roles in his White House, took the witness stand in his New York hush money case on Friday. Her testimony on the trial's 11th day was the latest in a frenzied second week of witness testimony and followed ...