After 13 days away from the ice, the Battlefords North Stars played their first game of 2025 Saturday night at the Access Communications Centre and kicked it off strong, winning 4-2 over the Nipawin Hawks.In the first period, the North Stars took charge right out of the gate, controlling the puck possession and doing a...

Lt. Gov. Russ Mirasty fondly recalls a time when he was visiting a school and met the principal and a student, who were both visibly nervous. "The statement was made 'We weren't even sure that we could talk to you,'" he said. Mirasty recognized they had a respect for the office, but he also acknowledged there...

A man and a woman are now charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 24-year-old man at a home in Saulteaux First Nation on Thursday.At approximately 4:50 a.m yesterday., the Battlefords RCMP received a call and found a man in serious condition, who was pronounced dead by paramedics shortly afte...

According to the commander of the Battlefords RCMP detachment, his team's biggest achievement in 2024 was their impact on crime.Jesse Gilbert sat down with battlefordsNOW and reflected on the past year, and looked ahead to what 2025 might bring.Based on the Year-to-End data from January to September, the most notable i...

When a handful of Indigenous youth came up to Claire Tuckanow to compliment her ribbon skirt and shared wishes of wanting their own, a spark was started.Tuckanow, a Métis-Cree woman from the Okanese First Nation, is the building safer communities coordinator with Growing Young Movers (GYM).GYM is a nonprofit org...

A man and a woman are now charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 24-year-old man at a home in Saulteaux First Nation on Thursday.At approximately 4:50 a.m yesterday., the Battlefords RCMP received a call and found a man in serious condition, who was pronounced dead by paramedics shortly afte...

According to the commander of the Battlefords RCMP detachment, his team's biggest achievement in 2024 was their impact on crime.Jesse Gilbert sat down with battlefordsNOW and reflected on the past year, and looked ahead to what 2025 might bring.Based on the Year-to-End data from January to September, the most notable i...

Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old in British Columbia shows "worrisome" signs that the virus could be mutating to more easily infect humans, but that the treatment approach taken can help inform future cases.In a letter published in the The New England Journal of Me...

Saskatchewan's rental market saw a shift in 2024, with vacancy rates in cities with over 10,000 people rising to 2.7 per cent, up from 2.4 per cent in 2023, according to The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.Cameron Choquette, CEO of Rental Housing Saskatchewan said there's a bit of reprieve for rental housing pr...

Environment Canada issued an extreme cold alert on Thursday for northwest central Saskatchewan : "A period of very cold wind chills is expected."According to the alert, overnight lows are expected to drop near -32 degrees Celsius. Combined with light southeasterly winds, this will create extreme wind chill va...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans says the man behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street travelled to Ontario in July 2023. Special agent Lyonel Myrthil says the investigation is now "crossing state and international borders," as law enforcement pieces together Shamshud-Din Jabbar's mo...

MONTREAL - Conservative MP Luc Berthold has announced he has prostate cancer. The longtime member of Parliament for Quebec's Mégantic-L'Érable federal riding shared the news on social media today. Berthold said in a Facebook post that the cancer is treatable but will require an operation that he expects t...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A winter storm in Newfoundland and Labrador has resulted in localized flooding and has left thousands without power as massive waves continue to slam the coastline. Ian Gillies, reached over the phone from Brigus South - a community along the coast about 60 kilometres south of St. John's - says he's ...

MONTREAL - Over a dozen people were injured after a bus swerved and crashed onto its side near the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec's Eastern Townships region Saturday night. Quebec provincial police says the bus was travelling on Route 133 when the driver lost control at around 8:30 p.m. in Saint-Armand, Que., about 62 ki...

HALIFAX - Experts on domestic violence say a series of deaths in Nova Scotia over the past three months highlight the need to improve funding for the programs that battle the root causes of intimate partner violence. The latest deaths came on New Year's Eve, as 39-year-old Matthew Costain allegedly shot and killed his ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's health department is warning people who may have been exposed to measles in several regions of the province to monitor for symptoms amid a new outbreak of the disease. Marie-Pierre Blier with the Quebec health department says four cases have been confirmed in the province as of Friday in connection ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Houston, also traveled to Cairo, Egypt, ...

VIENNA (AP) - Austrian People's Party has nominated its General Secretary Christian Stocker as interim leader after the expected resignation of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Austrian news agency APA reported. Stocker, a lawyer and member of the Austrian Parliament, has served as general secretary of the People's Party sinc...

VIENNA (AP) - Austrian People's Party has nominated its General Secretary Christian Stocker as interim leader after the expected resignation of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Austrian news agency APA reported. Stocker, a lawyer and member of the Austrian Parliament, has served as general secretary of the People's Party sinc...

VIENNA (AP) - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. The announcement came after the People's Party and the Social Democrats continued coalition talks a day after the liberal Neos party's surprise withdrawal from di...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Jimmy Carter 's long public goodbye began Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president's life began more than 100 years ago. A motorcade with Carter's flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the former presi...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Jimmy Carter 's long public goodbye began Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president's life began more than 100 years ago. A motorcade with Carter's flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the late preside...