Traffic is flowing once again on Highway 4 north of North Battleford after a major accident shut down traffic in either direction on Friday evening.The crash happened at around 8:00 p.m. near Hamlin Road, roughly 8 km north of the city, with local RCMP, fire, and EMS responding.Not much is known at this time, however, ...

Luck seems to be on Koreen Bauer's side, finishing first among the 97 other finalists of the 2024 Great Escape.By winning the ultimate prize of a free ticket to Mazatlán, she and her husband will have a 'tropical' winter this year.This is not the first time Q98 radio has taken her to Mexico. During COVID-19 peri...

It was a tough one for the Battlefords North Stars Friday night as they ended up falling short against the Estevan Bruins at Affinity Place in there first matchup this season.The North Stars came out slow in the first period, letting the Bruins get the first two goals and take a 2-0 lead.But near the end of the period,...

A sparkling orb at the centre of the Dekker Centre's banquet hall's ceiling bathed the room in a soft blue glow. Extending out from the orb in all directions were strings of twinkling golden lights thus completing the illusion that the guests who mingled below were out on wintery eve at twilight: a magical time to be i...

Snow removal is a big job, and Robert Dolinski is proud of the role he plays in it.He's been a snowplow operator for seven years and a truck driver for 30. He's based in the village of Odessa, which is around 70 km east of Regina."At the end of the day, it's satisfying to be able to make the road safer for the pub...

SGI is warning residents of Saskatchewan to be wary of emails using the SGI logo that are not authentic. The emails do not follow a copy and pasted script necessarily, and have changing subject lines as well. They do consistently ask for confirmation of residency and registration. SGI said it does not contact people by...

Don't throw away your seeds, because they hold valuable ancient agricultural knowledge.It's one of the key messages from the 13 Moons Food and Seed Sovereignty learning circle project from SAGE - ē kanātahk askiy (it is a clean earth), which is focused on seed and food sovereignty for the Indigenous people living on ...

The name Hallmark is synonymous with the Christmas season with annual sentimental movies that flood television screens when Christmas time comes around. During this Christmas season, central Sask residents can keep their eyes peeled for Prince Albert local Patsy Tuba for her role in 'Jingle Bell Run', a Christmas movie...

A Freedom of Information request made to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health is revealing that 385 patients died while waiting for surgery during the 2023/24 period.While this number reflects a slight decrease of 17 patients from the previous year, SecondStreet.Org communication director Dom Lucyk expressed the urgent ...

A Prince Albert-based businessman believes he can help make homes inhabitable again.Clarence Natomagan, owner of Meth Busters Inc. works with multiple housing authorities across the province, but would like to work with more First Nations.He wants to teach communities how to safely clean meth houses themselves."I ...

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - British Columbia conservation officers say a man was injured earlier this week when he was attacked by a black bear while he was walking his dog on a Metro Vancouver trail. The Conservation Officer Service says in a Facebook post that the incident happened on Wednesday at around 2:30 p.m., when the ...

Canada Post says it has seen a shortage of more than eight million parcels amid the ongoing strike that has effectively shut down the postal system for nine days compared with the same period of 2023.The Crown corporation said Saturday that customers have been forced to turn to competitors for their deliveries amid a w...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's electric utility says it has restored power to almost all customers who suffered outages during the bomb cyclone earlier this week, but strong wind from a new storm has made repairs difficult in some areas. BC Hydro says crews are working around the clock to repair outages across the prov...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has confirmed the country's first case of a more severe type of mpox in a person in Manitoba, though it says the risk to the general population remains low.The agency says the travel-related case is associated with an ongoing outbreak of what's known as clade 1 mpox in central and eas...

MONTREAL - Federal cabinet ministers condemned an anti-NATO protest in Montreal that turned violent on Friday, saying "hatred and antisemitism" were on display, but protesters deny the claim, saying they demonstrated against the "complicity" of NATO member countries in a war that has killed thousand...

HALIFAX - Canada's top general firmly rejected the notion of dropping women from combat roles - a position promoted by president-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary - at a security forum underway in Halifax today. Gen. Jennie Carignan, chief of defence staff, was responding to Republican Senator James Ri...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel said Sunday that the body of of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what the government described as a "heinous antisemitic terror incident." The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office sa...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel says the body of of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found, citing Emirati authorities. The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Sunday said Zvi Kogan was murdered, calling it a "heinous antisemitic terror inciden...

CORRALES, N.M. (AP) - Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94. Harris' wife, Margaret Elliston, confirmed his death to The Associated Press. "Fred Harris passed peacefully early this...

Israeli airstrikes Saturday in central Beirut killed at least 20 people, officials said, as the once-rare attacks on the heart of Lebanon's capital continued without warning while diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire.Lebanon's Health Ministry said 66 people were wounded in the strikes, which were the fourth in ce...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary, the last of his picks to lead executive agencies and another choice from within his established circle of advisers and allies. The nomination must be confirmed by th...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary. Rollins, who heads the Trump-allies America First Policy Institute, was the director of his office of American innovation in his first term. The nomination must be c...