The City of North Battleford is scaling back its 2025 property tax increase following adjustments to projected costs for library security, staffing and public transit operations.The proposed increase has been reduced from 4.39 per cent to 4.27 per cent, according to director of finance Margarita Pena, who presented the...

The Battlefords and Meadow Lake leaders are looking ahead to the future with a Liberal minority government at the helm."I think it'll be interesting to see what happens in the next three to six to nine months mainly because I think this election was won on who created the most fear within this country," Battl...

There's a new reason to cheer in the Battlefords. Aerial Cheer Athletics, the town's new all-star cheerleading club has officially concluded their inaugural year and has already started to make their mark, bringing high-flying stunts, dynamic routines, and a whole lot of spirit to the community. Founded by long-time Jo...

According to the latest numbers from Battlefords RCMP, assaults and robberies in the city are up, and property crime is downInsp. Ryan How presented their first quarter report to city council Monday night, which included a four per cent rise in person crimes between January and March, with 294 incidents reported compar...

The mother of a Prince Albert paramedic, one of two struck by a vehicle in Las Vegas, is happy to have her daughter recovering back in Saskatchewan, but the pressure of American medical bills is mounting.Katrine Sinclair and Charlie Lastowsky were celebrating Katrine's 21st birthday with another friend when they were s...

Premier Scott Moe and members of his government spent much of the federal election campaign subtly, and not so subtly, supporting the federal Conservative party, but the morning after election day Moe said he's hopeful for a possible reset of the relationship with the new Liberal government led by Mark Carney."I c...

Elections Canada has released preliminary voter turnout numbers for Monday's election, although they do not include electors who registered on election day. The Constitution of Canada requires a review of electoral districts after each 10-year census to reflect changes and movements in Canada's population. The number o...

The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting Prime Minister Mark Carney will lead a minority Liberal government.Elections Canada has nearly wrapped up counting all the ballots in what turned out to be a razor-close race that will leave the Liberals three seats short of winning a majority.Recounts in some ridings are ...

Despite easily winning their seats, Saskatchewan's Conservative incumbents will return to a reshaped Ottawa following a national shift towards the Liberals. Daniel Westlake, a political science professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said while a win was attainable for the Tories, the lead they held in polling thr...

The Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is pleased with Monday's election results.During the five week campaign, Bobby Cameron publicly encouraged Indigenous people to get out and vote, and according to actual voter turnout numbers his message was received loud and clear."You know we're ...

TORONTO - Canada's highest court is set to decide whether it will hear arguments in a trailblazing climate change lawsuit that could clarify whether governments are constitutionally required to tackle planet-warming emissions. Thursday's decision could set the stage before the Supreme Court of Canada in a case where se...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says people are "sick and tired" of inquiries and reviews into the recurring pattern of people in a mental health crisis that become a public safety crisis. Sim says the man accused of killing 11 people by driving a vehicle through a street lined with festival goers Saturda...

LONDON - The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team watched security footage today from a bar and the hotel where the players were staying the night of the alleged incident. Court has also seen cellphone videos taken by one of the accused players and another member of the team ...

MONTREAL - An organization representing Quebec Inuit wants Elections Canada to investigate reports that some people in Nunavik were unable to vote in Monday's federal election. Makivvik says polling hours were inconsistent across the northern part of Quebec, and some communities were unable to vote altogether. The orga...

TORONTO - Event organizers across Canada say they're combing over their security practices in the wake of Saturday night's deadly attack on a Vancouver street festival, hoping to fill any gaps to protect attendees. Politicians are also turning their attention to the issue, with British Columbia Premier David Eby saying...

VANCOUVER - Communal grief following the ramming attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver that killed 11 people last weekend will likely persist for months, mental health experts in British Columbia warn. "Traumatic events, grief, is not something that is resolved in a week or two weeks, or a couple of months,&q...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford in Burlington, Verm...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Israel said Wednesday that it carried out an attack in Syria on a group targeting members of a minority sect as a new round of clashes left at least 11 people dead, most of them members of the country's security forces. The clashes on the edge of the town of Sahnaya, south of the capital Damascus...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government has begun shedding new light on a crackdown on international students, spelling out how it targeted thousands of people and laying out the grounds for terminating their legal status. The new details emerged in lawsuits filed by some of the students who suddenly had their status can...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities. The FBI took Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan into custody on Friday morning at the county courthouse. She faces federal charges of concealing an individual to prevent his discovery ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has told Congress that it intends to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, according to people familiar with the notification. The State Department had similarly labeled eight Latin American crime organizations as it ratcheted up pressure on cartels opera...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden's nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris. Emhoff, who is Jewish and who led the Biden administration's efforts to combat antisemitism, cr...