Environment

No extension for ice fishers to remove shacks

As the weather warms and the ice thins, the COVID-19 outbreak is not going to be an excuse to leave your ice-fishing shack on the ice. A Prince Albert Conservation Officer is reminding everyone all fi...

Mar 24, 2020 Ice-fishing shacks north of Highway 16 must be removed from lakes by March 31. (Ronald Quaroni/paNOW Staff)

Battlefords residents advised to flush only toilet paper

The City of North Battleford released a statement to the public to remind residents not to flush anything down the toilet aside from toilet paper. The list, available on the city's website, includes c...

Mar 21, 2020 (ID 48258735 © Tomnex | Dreamstime.com)

Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation requesting gun donations for fundraiser auction

The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) is bringing back their Guns for Habitat donation program calling the program an environmentally-friendly way to donate unwanted guns. Director of Habitat Lan...

Mar 19, 2020 (Submitted/Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation Facebook)

Cree names given to star and exoplanet

The Cree language has been linked to astrology for thousands of years, using the sun, the stars and the moon as navigational guides. But now, Cree names for a star and its exoplanet will be used in ev...

Mar 18, 2020 A star and its exoplanet have been renamed in Cree as part of a naming contest. (ID 125461858 © Vitalij Kopa | Dreamstime.com)

Feds bullish on nuclear: Minister visits Sask. north

"Show me a credible plan that doesn't involve nuclear." That's the strong endorsement for Saskatchewan's uranium sector from federal Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O'Regan who has just wrapped a...

Mar 10, 2020

Feds bullish on nuclear: Minister visits Sask. north

"Show me a credible plan that doesn't involve nuclear." That's the strong endorsement for Saskatchewan's uranium sector from federal Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O'Regan who has just wrapped a...

Mar 10, 2020

Feds bullish on nuclear: Minister visits Sask. north

"Show me a credible plan that doesn't involve nuclear." That's the strong endorsement for Saskatchewan's uranium sector from federal Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O'Regan who has just wrapped a...

Mar 10, 2020

P.A. man fined for hunting on First Nations territory

A man caught illegally hunting on Indigenous land faces over a $1,000 in fines and has been told he cannot own a hunting licence for two years.Doug Risling, 59, appeared at Prince Albert Provincial Co...

Mar 09, 2020 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)

A snowy weekend briefly gives way to warmer conditions

The volatile spring weather continues across the region over the coming week.This comes after last week, which saw daytime highs of around 6 degrees Celsius morph into a spring storm that brought heav...

Mar 09, 2020

A snowy weekend briefly gives way to warmer conditions

The volatile spring weather continues across the region over the coming week.This comes after last week, which saw daytime highs of around 6 degrees Celsius morph into a spring storm that brought heav...

Mar 09, 2020 Snow moved through the region on the weekend, leaving many to dig out. (Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)