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Ontario reports four new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus
TORONTO - Ontario health officials announced four more cases of the new coronavirus in the province on Sunday, bringing the total diagnoses in Canada to 24. All four of the patients had recently trave...
Mar 01, 2020
Bears snap skid by sweeping Sharks
The Prince Albert Northern Bears got back into the win column in a big way on the weekend in the Battlefords. The Bears swept the Battlefords Sharks on the road with a 5-1 victory on Saturday and a 5-...
Mar 01, 2020 Bears forward Paris Oleksyn had a big offensive weekend in the Battlefords. Jeff D'Andrea/paNOW Staff
16 year old charged in alleged Grandmother's Bay homicide
A 16-year-old from Grandmother's Bay is facing a charge of second degree murder.The male cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. A media release from RCMP Sunday said La Ronge/Stanley Mi...
Mar 01, 2020 (file photo)
Prince Albert Gymnastics Club hosts annual invitational
The Prince Albert Gymnastics Club staged their annual invitational called Werk the Runway on the weekend.The club has been hosting invitationals for many years but started this one last season and Mic...
Mar 01, 2020 The Prince Albert Gymnastics Club hosted 300 athletes from across Saskatchewan and Alberta. (Ian Gustafson/paNOW Staff)
"She would be proud," Rindal memorial spiel off to a good start
The 1st Annual Deanna Rindal Memorial Open Doubles Spiel had everything that Rindal would have liked. As the name would suggest, it featured doubles curling which she was a huge supporter of. The spie...
Mar 01, 2020 Brad and Trish Bibby won the A Finals of the 1st Annual Deanna Rindal Memorial Open Doubles Spiel. Submitted photo/Pat Bibby
Wet’suwet’en chiefs, ministers reach proposed agreement in pipeline dispute
SMITHERS, B.C. - A Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada ...
Mar 01, 2020 OPP Sgt. Diana Hampson of the liaison team, middle, speaks with members of the Mohawk Territory in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ont., on Feb. 11, 2020. The members have blocked the CN/VIA train tracks for six days in support of Wet'suwet'en's blockade of natural gas pipeline in northern B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
World religions conference reflects common ground in diverse perspectives
It was a time for understanding Saturday when six speakers from different cultures and religious perspectives came together for the Pathway to Peace conference at the North Battleford Library.Quentin ...
Mar 01, 2020 Left to right, Wes Fine Day (Indigenous), Amandeep Singh (Sikhism), and Pastor Keith Klippenstein (Christian) were among the speakers at the event. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Striving for more women in elected office
The quest for more women to be involved in all levels of politics was the focus of an event in Prince Albert Saturday.The Canadian Federation of University Women held a Prairies International Women's ...
Mar 01, 2020
Coronach ‘open for business’ with transition money announced Friday
First with the oil downturn starting in 2014 and now with federal regulations moving the country away from coal, southeast Saskatchewan's economy is hurting.But on Friday, the provincial government an...
Mar 01, 2020 Coronach's mayor Trevor Schnell, Feb. 28, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Parkinson perfect as Mustangs sweep Hawks in weekend set
Melfort Mustangs goalie Shawn Parkinson did his best impression of a brick wall on Friday, and he did it one more time on Saturday, as the Mustangs swept their weekend opponent the Nipawin Hawks.Frida...
Mar 01, 2020 (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)