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Conservatives ask auditor general to review tax-change confusion
OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are asking the auditor general to probe the Finance Department's handling of tax changes that left small business owners and family farmers confused for weeks. It...
Jul 22, 2021

Fire destroys Birch Hills area home
A house on a rural property southeast of Birch Hills is considered a total loss following a fire late Wednesday afternoon.Birch Hills Fire and Rescue was dispatched around 5 p.m. to the property. By t...
Jul 22, 2021

Kosior hopes to hear his name called during his second draft
This isn't Landon Kosior's first rodeo. The Prince Albert Raiders defenceman is entering his second NHL Entry Draft this year. Kosior was ranked 98th among North American skaters last year but was pas...
Jul 22, 2021

Rookie tight end Burt, Hamilton Tiger-Cats learning about each other at training camp
Training camp is a time for learning for both the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and rookie Jake Burt. Hamilton selected the former Boston College tight end first overall in this year's CFL draft intrigued by th...
Jul 22, 2021

Two Alberta First Nations want courts to allow appeal of decision on coal mine
A second Alberta First Nation wants the courts to allow it to appeal a review board's decision that an open-pit coal mine in the Rocky Mountains isn't in the public interest. The Stoney Nakoda Nation ...
Jul 22, 2021

Young Wolves Indigenous Beach VB Camp
FREE Young Wolves Indigenous Beach Volleyball Camp will be coming to Saskatoon.Registration deadline is July 26, 2021.See the poster for details.
Jul 22, 2021

Annamie Paul says 'small group' of party execs behind court case against Green leader
OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul is seeking to frame a legal challenge from her own party as the work of a "small group" of outgoing executives that amounts to a "one-sided attack." Backed by sign-t...
Jul 22, 2021

Minimum security inmate dies while at large
A man who escaped from the Willow Cree Healing Lodge last week, has died.Wednesday evening, Correctional Services of Canada confirmed Eugene Desjarlais, an inmate at the minimum security federal insti...
Jul 22, 2021

Firearms, truck stolen during break-in in RM of Wilton
Maidstone RCMP are investigating a robbery from over the weekend where a truck, weapons and other items were stolen.A break and enter occurred in the RM of Wilton between the evening of July 18 to the...
Jul 22, 2021

More evacuations ordered in B.C. as wildfires flare, fanned by strong winds
Residents in more areas of British Columbia have been forced from their homes indefinitely, this time by wildfires whipped up by strong winds in the southeastern part of the province. The Regional Dis...
Jul 22, 2021