Saskatoon News
A fast-moving wildfire has triggered a mandatory evacuation order in the Rural Municipality of Shellbrook as crews continue battling multiple active fires across Saskatchewan.
Two families living on Redwood Crescent in Warman were dealing with the loss of their homes after a fire on Friday night.
City of Warman Fire Department said in a Facebook post... Read more
For the second time in less than two weeks, a church at Little Red River Reserve north of Prince Albert has been destroyed by fire.
The latest incident happened on Thursday at around 11:40 p.m.
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Police in the province continue to investigate the killing of Lawrence Lavallee four years after his death, and are asking for help from the public to solve the 2022 crime.
The Prince Albert Police Service’s major crimes unit is renewing its call for assistance as officers work to solve the... Read more
MONTREAL — For decades, Dominique Boucher stayed away from the theatre.
Boucher avoided being in the audience for shows because he has lived with a visual impairment for the past 40 years.
But as more theatres in Quebec experiment with performances that offer audio descriptions, sign-language... Read more
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VANCOUVER — It's a pivotal day for the British Columbia Conservative Party as the Opposition in the provincial legislature will announce its new leader.
The candidates, who had to pay more than $100,000 to join the race, were whittled down to five: former MLA Iain Black, commentator Caroline... Read more
OTTAWA — The number of immigration cases being brought to Federal Court has more than quadrupled since 2020 — and some immigration lawyers are linking the surge in part to the federal government's use of artificial intelligence and automation to clear visa application backlogs.
Immigration,... Read more
OTTAWA — The federal government is facing increased pressure to state whether it knows how some of its recent policy changes will affect Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin was peppered with questions on the issue at a parliamentary committee hearing on Thursday.... Read more
Postal workers are set to wrap up voting on new tentative agreements today after more than two years of labour strife.
Some 55,000 union members began voting April 20 on a five-year contract which includes wage increases of 6.5 per cent and three per cent in the first two years.
The Canadian Union... Read more
A sluggish start to the Canadian Elite Basketball League regular season turned into a historic evening Friday for the Saskatoon Mamba.
Wearing green like their former namesake in the Saskatchewan Rattlers, the Mamba earned their first victory of the 2026 CEBL season 100-98 over the visiting... Read more
The fast moving Lobstick Fire has prompted an evacuation order in the Rural Municipality of Shellbrook.
The order includes individuals in the RM of Shellbrook who live in the hamlet of Holbein one mile west and five miles east of Shellbrook and are south of Hwy 3 to the rural RM of Shellbrook... Read more
RALEIGH — Hockey might be considered Canada's game, but its most iconic trophy has extended its decades-long residency in the United States for at least another year.
Taylor Hall, Logan Stankoven and Eric Robinson scored in a dominating first period that helped push the Hurricanes past the... Read more
Residents in Macdowall, Sask., are on high alert as a wildfire caused by lightning blazes out of control at a nearby provincial park.
The Green Zone Replay – Friday, May 29
2:35 – Josh Lewenberg, TSN
The New York Knicks are off to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. They await the winner of Game 7 between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder. Will Knicks fever take over North... Read more
Saskatchewan has imposed a sweeping fire ban across much of central and southern parts of the province as new details emerge about the Lobstick Fire... Read more
EDMONTON — Corb Lund is exhausted and would rather just play music.
It’s been almost four months of collecting signatures in his fight to force a referendum to stop coal development in the Rockies.
The deadline for signatures is looming – June 10th – and Lund says even if he gets the names... Read more
Making the roster for Saskatchewan Roughriders takes more than catching passes, making tackles or running fast.... Read more
Multiple houses were destroyed despite the efforts from Saskatoon fire crews, who spent hours battling the blazes in the Hampton Village neighbourhood Friday morning.... Read more
Water pressure has been fully restored for residents on the east side of Saskatoon.
The city said in a news release on Friday that commissioning of the Acadia Drive... Read more
With over half the pulses imported into India coming from Saskatchewan, Premier Scott Moe couldn’t understate the importance of the province’s relationship... Read more
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a Canada-India trade deal would be positive, especially if it eases tariffs on pulse crops that have hurt exports.
MONTREAL — An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population.
The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal reached the preliminary conclusion following a week of hearings in Montreal.
The panel says Canada had historically adopted a series... Read more
A stolen SUV fraudulently purchased in Saskatchewan was traced to Ghana, highlighting a broader trend of Canadian vehicles being shipped overseas.
MONTREAL — The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaida training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit.
Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a Passport Canada office from detention and... Read more
One of Regina’s extreme weather spaces, the Central Library, is closed for the weekend after its air conditioner stopped working.
Regina Public Libraries said in a social media post on Friday afternoon that the central branch was closed from 2 p.m. because staff had no way to control the... Read more
Standing at the kitchen window, Colleen Neufeld watched as the flames from what’s been called the Lobstick wildfire grow ever closer.
The sky looked like a typical prairie sunset, but it isn’t an orange glow from the sun.
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FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider.
Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressive Conservatives, said Friday the government should reconsider the contract it signed with... Read more
Saskatchewan's premier says a new council has been implemented to advise and inform the province on the Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement and related U.S. tariff issues.... Read more
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don’t have the documents to prove it.
The case was seen as the first major legal test of an election reform that has... Read more
ST. JOHN'S — The Newfoundland and Labrador government has dropped a lawsuit challenging the federal equalization program.
The province's former Liberal government filed the suit in 2024, claiming the program unfairly penalizes Newfoundland and Labrador.
However, the new Progressive Conservative... Read more
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told Pope Leo XIV on Friday that Canada wants to take a leadership role in the responsible development of artificial intelligence.
The conversation happened days after the Pope called for robust regulation of AI.
"They discussed the imperative that AI must serve... Read more
MONTRÉAL — A group representing Quebec municipalities is calling on the next provincial government to boost funding for public transit agencies, which say they will need $20 billion by 2035 just to maintain their assets.
The chair of the Union des municipalités du Québec's large cities caucus says... Read more
Tourism Regina has a new idea to encourage people to visit the Queen City.
The organization is partnering with businesses and event organizers to launch a new promo card program. The card will work like a pre-paid credit card, to be used at participating Regina businesses. Tourism Regina will... Read more
VANCOUVER — The estimated cost of hosting World Cup matches in Vancouver has repeatedly increased and is now almost triple an initial estimate by the B.C. government. Here's how the increases have unfolded.
March 2022: The province estimates the total costs at approximately $240 to $260... Read more
REGINA — As Ottawa appears to inch closer to a trade deal with India, Premier Scott Moe says he hopes the agreement addresses punishing tariffs on pulse crops.
But Moe says if the deal doesn't remove the duties, it's something his province can work around.
Last year, India imposed a 30 per cent... Read more
Saskatchewan's top court is upholding the conviction for a man who choked his girlfriend unconscious before sexually assaulting her, ruling that his secretly-recorded confession in a tattoo shop did not amount to a full-scale undercover sting.... Read more
SAINT-HYACINTHE — Bloc Québécois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay has confirmed he'll resign his seat in the House of Commons to run for the Parti Québécois in the fall provincial election.
Savard-Tremblay says he'll sit as an Independent for the rest of the federal parliamentary session before... Read more