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Does the city have too many traffic lights? P.A. mayor thinks yes
Escaping Prince Albert's forest of traffic lights in the downtown and other areas of the city can be very frustrating for motorists and it's also costing taxpayers. The mayor wants to see some of them...
Jul 09, 2019 The abundance of traffic lights is costing taxpayers too much money and the mayor wants to reduce their proliferation across the city. (Tyler Marr /paNOW Staff)
Killing of black teen in Phoenix area trending on Twitter
PHOENIX - Hundreds of people including a presidential candidate are speaking out on Twitter about the killing of a 17-year-old black youth at a suburban convenience store by a white man who said he wa...
Jul 09, 2019
Homecoming and healing: Musicians return to P.A. stage
It was the story of both a comeback and a homecoming, as two Prince Albert raised musicians took to the stage at the first-annual Chesterfest just west of P.A. July 5 and 6.Performing at Chesterfest w...
Jul 09, 2019 Regina-based band The Dead South features P.A. raised banjoist Colton Crawford, far right. The band returned to Prince Albert to perform at Chesterfest on July 5, 2019
Saskatchewan Science Centre brings science education to Meadow Lake
The Meadow Lake Library brought in some science educators to get kids interested in learning during the summer.Fifty kids from ages five to 16 were in the Jonas Samson School gymnasium on July 7 for S...
Jul 09, 2019 The kids put on a "blubber glove" which simulated what it felt like when arctic animals like walrus' dive into the cold water. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW staff)
What'sHappeningNOW July 9, 2019
News Director Glenn Hicks speaks with Senior Reporter Nigel Maxwell about an ongoing legal issue involving the Right to Life organization.
Jul 09, 2019
SGI continues to benefit from out-of-province expansion
SGI achieved one goal and closed in on another during the 2018-19 fiscal year.In its annual report tabled Tuesday, the Crown corporation revealed it had written $371.4 million in premiums outside of S...
Jul 09, 2019 (file photo/CKOM News Staff)
Crews rush 46 to hospital after carbon monoxide leak at Winnipeg hotel
WINNIPEG - Sergiy Bolshakov was watching TV in his Winnipeg hotel room when a firefighter knocked on the door and told him the building was being evacuated because of an emergency. The Toronto man qui...
Jul 09, 2019
Massive choir a place for Estonians to find identity, solace
TALLINN, Estonia - Tens of thousands of Estonians joined in singing folk songs Sunday on the 150th anniversary of a music festival that inspired resistance to Soviet control and later received recogni...
Jul 09, 2019
NewsAlert:Bombardier to lay off 550 workers at its Thunder Bay, Ont. plant
Bombardier Inc. is laying off 550 workers at its Thunder Bay, Ont. plant, according to a federal government source. More coming. The Canadian Press
Jul 09, 2019
Nipawin Chamber and town agree on legal fees for building purchase
The Town of Nipawin and the Nipawin and District Chamber of Commerce will each cover $500 of the chamber's legal fees as a result of their building purchase agreement.Nipawin council voted to cover $5...
Jul 09, 2019 The Town of Nipawin will cover some of the Chamber of Commerce's legal fees due to their agreed sale of the chamber's building. (Facebook/Nipawin and District Chamber of Commerce)