Crime & Courts

Sask. RCMP handed out 2,100 tickets during safe driving week

The Saskatchewan RCMP has released the results of its officers' work during National Safe Driving Week.Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 7, RCMP officers in the province stopped 10,441 vehicles and laid 2,137 r...

Dec 20, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)

Leask school placed on 'hold and secure'

UPDATE: A hold and secure procedure at Leask Community School has been lifted following an incident at the school early Wednesday morning. An unknown male wandered into the elementary side of the scho...

Dec 18, 2019 (Facebook/ Leask Community School)

Highway Patrol officers to get new body armour

Saskatchewan Highway Patrol officers are getting upgraded body armour.A request for bids is out to replace their current bulletproof vests, as well as buy new armour plates that can withstand high pow...

Dec 17, 2019 (File photo/CJME staff)

Man facing drug-related charges stemming from police patrol

A man is facing drug-related charges following an investigation stemming from a police patrol Tuesday morning. Battlefords RCMP report at about 9 a.m. members of the Battlefords Gang Task Force were o...

Dec 17, 2019 A man is facing charges following a police investigation. The allegations have not been proven in court. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Drug bust lands two men in custody

Cocaine and marijuana were found inside a vehicle Friday near Maidstone.The vehicle was initially pulled by police for speeding and for an equipment violation.In total, 143 grams of suspected cocaine ...

Dec 16, 2019 (submitted photo/RCMP)

Warrants for arrest following armed robbery in N.B.

Two males have been charged and are wanted following a robbery in North Battleford on Saturday.According to a media release from Battlefords RCMP, at 9:30 a.m. police responded to the 900 block of 110...

Dec 15, 2019 Skylar Pooyak (Submitted photo/ Battlefords RCMP)

Accused in Tiki Laverdiere case receive large amount of evidence Crown will use to prosecute

Four of eight charged in the homicide investigation connected to the death of Tiki Brook-Lyn Laverdiere returned to court Friday with some receiving substantial additoinal Crown disclosure. Jesse Sang...

Glynn Brothen Dec 13, 2019 Edmonton woman Tiki Laverdiere, 25, was last seen in North Battleford. (supplied photo/Battlefords RCMP)

‘You were everything to me’: Kindersley family, community grieve after separated couple murder-suicide

A woman who was killed in a murder-suicide in Kindersley on Thursday is being remembered as a loving mother, grandmother and co-worker by family and the larger community.Elsie Gartner, 64, a health wo...

Dec 13, 2019 Elsie Gartner is seen in a photo dated 2014. (Elsie Gartner/Facebook)

Widow sues child and family services agency for wrongful death

Cora Laich, who's husband Simon Grant was murdered in La Ronge in April 2017, is suing the Lac La Ronge Indian Band Child and Family Services Agency Inc. for wrongful death caused by negligence.A stat...

Dec 13, 2019 Cora Laich and her late husband Simon Grant. (Submitted photo/Cora Laich)

Saskatchewan residents to see power bills rise; SaskPower warns about phone scam

Saskatchewan residents will be paying more for power in the new year.The carbon tax is set to increase Jan. 1 from $20 a tonne to $30. SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cherry explained what the increase wi...

Dec 13, 2019 The Crown-owned power company says bills are set to climb and warning residents about a phone scam. (File Photo/paNOW Staff)