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Alleged sexual assault at Big River First Nation results in jail sentence
A man accused earlier this year of sexual assault has received a jail sentence totalling 288 days.Skylar Blaze Lachance, 23, was sentenced Friday at Whitefish after entering guilty pleas to assault an...
Aug 17, 2021

Fish Derby at Ille a la Crosse
The community of Ille a la Crosse is having a fish derby on Saturday with registration starting at 10:00 a.m. See the poster for details.
Aug 17, 2021

Cooler conditions offer fractional relief to crews battling nearly 300 B.C. wildfires
Nearly 300 wildfires are burning across British Columbia but showers and cooler temperatures have taken an edge off the most aggressive blazes and curbed a cascade of evacuation orders and alerts. The...
Aug 17, 2021

Lions' Reilly, Roughriders' Woodward and Fajardo capture CFL's top performer honours
B.C. Lions quarterback Michael Reilly was named the CFL's top performer of the week on Tuesday. Reilly completed 26-of-33 passes for 342 yards and scored a touchdown in leading B.C. past the Calgary S...
Aug 17, 2021

Sask. experiences poor air quality from B.C. wildfires, north
Smoke from forest fires in British Columbia has once again made its way to Saskatchewan.Residents in central and southern Saskatchewan woke up Monday morning to hazy conditions. Environment Canada iss...
Aug 17, 2021

Move over voter fatigue: apathy may be the name of the 2021 federal election
We've dealt with a lot of elections in Saskatchewan in the last 22 months.First, there was the October 2019 federal election. Then, the October 2020 provincial election.That was followed by the munici...
Aug 17, 2021

Town of Nipawin Community Registration Night
We know that nobody wants to think about summer coming to an end, but we wanted to give the opportunity to mark in in your calendars that Community Registration Night will be combining with the Town O...
Aug 17, 2021

BHP gives long-awaited go ahead for Jansen potash mine in Saskatchewan
Australian mining giant BHP Group says it has approved $7.5 billion in capital spending to build its Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan.The decision came as BHP announced a plan to merge its oil an...
Aug 17, 2021

AP Source: 76ers, Embiid agree to $196 million, 4-year deal
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Philadelphia 76ers have kept their trust in Joel Embiid. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Embiid and the Sixers agreed on a four-year, $196 m...
Aug 17, 2021

Diplomats, troops and refugees arrive in Canada as flights resume from Afghanistan
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says two more planes have arrived in Canada from Afghanistan carrying diplomats, special forces troops and refugees fleeing the Taliban. The flights come af...
Aug 17, 2021