Provincial News

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sin City will quite literally blow a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that will reduce to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The Tropicana’s hotel towers are expected to tumble in 22 seconds at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. The celebration will […]

MOOSE JAW — City hall plans to apply for more than $6 million in federal funding to support upgrades to the library, the art gallery and museum, Golden Ticket Sports Centre and Kinsmen Sportsplex. The department of community services is seeking $6.2 million from Ottawa’s Green and Inclusive Community Buildings (GICB) Program to pursue several […]

REGINA – The City of Regina is conducting a survey starting in October to gather information on how its residents travel daily.    Data results will help with future infrastructure decisions, like transit upgrades and road improvements.  R.A Malatest & Associates Ltd, a Canadian Research film, will conduct the survey on behalf of the city.  Certain households across […]

Last year’s Canadian Western Agribition created lots of positive economic activity for the province. Agribition shared stats from an economic impact study conducted by Praxis Consulting. It showed the 2023 event generated $116.5 million of economic activity in Saskatchewan, including $69.6 million to the provincial GDP. The total economic activity represents a nearly 21 per […]

SASKATOON — The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on both Sask Party leader Scott Moe and NDP leader Carla Beck to commit to join the government of New Brunswick’s legal challenge against the federal carbon tax. “Both Moe and Beck rightly oppose the federal carbon tax, but they need to take the next step and commit to […]

WASHINGTON – According to the U.S. Department of Justice Matthew Norman Ballek, 32, of Saskatchewan, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal child pornography charge stemming from his distribution of child pornography to an undercover law enforcement agent in January 2024. Ballek has been in custody since his Feb. 7 arrest. He now faces a maximum […]

Weather Forecast Temperature Chance Precip Today Partly to mostly sunny   Wind:  S-SE 10-20 km/h High: 20° 0% Tonight Mainly clear   Wind: SE 10-20 km/h  Low: 4° 0% Tuesday Mostly sunny   Wind: S-SE 15-30 km/h High: 23° 0% Tuesday night Clear   Wind: W-SW 15-25 km/h Low: 6° 0% Wednesday Partly sunny   […]

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Canadian events set to mark Oct. 7 anniversary Ceremonies, events and protests are being held across Canada today to mark the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza. The Oct. 7, […]

The first weekend of the official provincial election campaign period saw the parties’ political activity scaled down, but only by a notch. Saturday saw both the Sask Party and NDP leaders campaigning in Moose Jaw, considered an electoral battleground this election season. There, both campaigns reiterated familiar themes. At a Sask Party event with Moose Jaw candidates, Scott […]

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in cities across Canada to remember the victims of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza. In the nation’s capital, a sea of Israeli flags could be seen draped over participants in front of Ottawa City Hall, with Canadian flags waving alongside them […]