The City of North Battleford turned its eye to properties in significant disrepair at its meeting Monday night.The city took issue with a specific property located at the 700 block of 110 Street that was cited to have a missing front door and windows. The wiring was also unsafe and not up to code. The front door was bo...

Two women are heading to North Battleford Provincial Court, following their arrest by the RCMP's North Battleford Crime Reduction Team. Last week, the CRT were doing proactive controls when a 22-year-old woman with several outstanding warrants out was seen outside a 101 Street business. Officers tried to arrest her, an...

Standing in front of reporters earlier today in the legislative building, the leader of the opposition officially called on Premier Scott Moe to give the Minister for Education "the boot." "Saskatchewan people are right to hold their leaders to a higher standard, that goes double for cabinet ministers,&q...

Sweetgrass First Nation's Lyrik Albert is coming off a third straight gold medal performance at the Saskatchewan Junior Olympic Program (JOP) Championships in Prince Albert. Marking Albert's third gold in just her third time competing at the Junior Olympics, the hardware adds to her first-place showings in 2023 and 202...

A new report shows that a crisis affecting thousands of Saskatchewan people got incredibly worse during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published a study last week showing the number of opioid-related deaths nationwide from 2019-2021. In that period, the number of opio...

The Government of Saskatchewan is encouraging people in the province to face the issues of abusive relationships and domestic violence.The provincial government's "Face the Issue" awareness campaign continued last week with a series of five videos on social media aiming to help educate 18- to 24-year-olds abo...

Mary Simon, Canada's 30th Governor General, will meet with Premier Scott Moe and visit the First Nations University of Canada on Monday as she makes her first official visit to Saskatchewan.The three-day visit will begin with greetings from dignitaries including Moe and Lt.-Gov. Russ Mirasty, followed by an inspection ...

Suzanne Kuchinka, mayor of the village of Macoun in southeast Saskatchewan, says it's been a struggle for years to keep family doctors because they retire or move elsewhere.In Lloydminster, a city on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary, Mayor Gerald Aalbers says doctors who want to work in his community are facing roadbl...

April 20 - commonly referred to as 4/20 - has long been associated with cannabis culture in Canada and around the world.But while many will be lighting pipes, sparking up joints and munching on edibles Saturday, SGI is warning users that more and more people in Saskatchewan are getting caught driving while impaired by ...

A man accused of taking his young daughter away so she wouldn't get a COVID-19 vaccination has been found guilty of abducting her.Global News has confirmed for 980 CJME that Michael Gordon Jackson, 55, was found guilty Friday of abduction in contravention of a custody order after a trial at Regina Court of King's Bench...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government says legislation formally recognizing the Haida Nation's Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii was introduced in the legislature Monday. The province says the "Rising Tide" Haida Title Lands Agreement is the first negotiated deal of its kind in Canada, providing ...

GATINEAU, Que. - Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says he has appointed an Industrial Inquiry Commission to dig deeper into the underlying causes of B.C.'s port strike last summer. The federal government says in a statement the port strike was a single labour dispute that caused a major "economic disruption...

CARIBOO, B.C. - Susanne Langan first noticed the Burgess Creek wildfire from her home in British Columbia's Cariboo region on Saturday afternoon as a distant, thin column of smoke. But as winds picked up that night, the flames became more aggressive. "I could see lots of trees going up like Roman candles.... There...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is raising eyebrows anew over his carbon pricing stance, refusing to say today whether or not he would keep scheduled increases in place if he becomes prime minister. The federal carbon price is set to rise to $170 per tonne of carbon dioxide or equivalent by 2030. Singh says ...

VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op says the city should rethink its approach to 4-20 celebrations and sanction what c...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A former RCMP officer charged with helping China conduct foreign interference is asking the court to quash the indictment over a jurisdictional issue. Lawyers for William Majcher contend that Quebec is the wrong place to hear the case and the charges should have been filed where the offences are alleg...

BERLIN (AP) - A man who works for a German lawmaker in the European Parliament was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, German prosecutors said Tuesday. The suspect, identified only as Jian G. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested Monday in Dresden, federal prosecutors said in a statement. They didn't s...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said. The helicopters were rehearsing at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy's 90th anniversary celebration next month when the accident occu...

PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona judge declares a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. George Alan Kelly, 75, was charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, 48, who lived just south of the...

GENEVA (AP) - The World Anti-Doping Agency said after reviewing various media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart medication before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. WADA addressed questions at a Monday news conference and acknowledged there would be skeptic...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency known as UNRWA...

NEW YORK (AP) - In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors alleged Monday that the former president "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt" the 2016 presidential election. The commencement of the proceedings set the stage for weeks of unsavory and salacious testimony ab...