Crime & Courts

Sask. RCMP release information about safe driving week

The Saskatchewan RCMP have released some of the highlights from this year's National Safe Driving Week.One of these highlights involved a driver in Prince Albert who received just over $1,300 in fines...

Dec 20, 2019 Saskatchewan RCMP did some targeted enforcement work as part of National Safe Driving Week Dec 1 to 7. (File photo/paNOW Staff)

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)

Local police go Christmas shopping with kids

Twenty-five Prince Albert police officers reported for special holiday duty on Wednesday.They were at Canadian Tire to do some Christmas shopping.The annual yuletide tradition gives kids the chance to...

Dec 19, 2019 (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)

Special P.A. police task force makes headway on B&Es

The Prince Albert Police Service (PAPS) says it has recorded positive results from their break and enter task force initiative launched in the summer. It was set up to target property-related offences...

Dec 19, 2019 Prince Albert Police are reporting success with their special break and enter task force launched as a result of sky-rocketing incidents in the summer. (File photo/paNOW Staff)

RCMP investigating theft in Naicam area

Melfort RCMP are asking for your help to identify a skid steer stolen near Naicam.The skid steer was taken out of a gravel pit north of Naicam sometime between mid-September and mid-October.It has a b...

Dec 19, 2019 (submitted photo/RCMP)

Police say drunk driver responsible for smashing family's living room window

panwPrince Albert Police say a drunk driver was responsible for a crash Tuesday morning at Carlton Park Suites on 28th St. E.Around 11:30 a.m., a vehicle plowed straight into a family's living room wi...

Dec 18, 2019 A photo taken after Tuesday's incident at Carlton Park Suites. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)

P.A. Police request assistance in locating 14-year-old

UPDATE: According to the Prince Albert Police Service, Silas Crowe has been located safe and sound.-The Prince Albert Police Service is requesting public assistance in finding a missing 14-year-old ma...

Dec 18, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)

Preliminary hearing set in Sturgeon Lake manslaughter case

A court case surrounding a death on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation last summer, is moving forward.Ryan Kyle Daniels, 41, is facing a charge of manslaughter in the death of Darwin Naytowhow. On July 14...

Dec 18, 2019 Prince Albert Provincial Court. (File photo/ paNOW Staff)

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)