Provincial News

Delegates voted on 21 resolutions during the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) Mid-Term Convention in Saskatoon on Wednesday. They were a mix of how SARM conducts business at its conventions to lobbying the provincial and federal governments on a variety of issues. For example, the R.M. of Elfros No. 307 introduced three resolutions related […]

MOOSE JAW — It was February 2019 when Gregory Samuel Lawrence and his wife, Marjorie, were experiencing marital problems, and on this occasion, their verbal argument turned physical. Frustrated with the issues they were experiencing in their marriage, Lawrence lost his composure during the dispute and shoved and choked his spouse. No other allegations of […]

The voting period remains open to fill spots on the SaskOilseeds Board of Directors. Five people are vying for four spots on the Board — David Altrogge from Saint Benedict, Patricia Lung from Lake Lenore, Thomas MacKenzie from Zehner, Codie Nagy from Ogema, and Dean Roberts from Coleville. These candidates have different farming backgrounds from […]

Saskatchewan’s Opposition NDP says Premier Scott Moe’s government needs to address high food prices and pause the gas tax in light of recent scurvy cases in the province’s North.  News website larongeNow reported last week that doctors in the community had treated 27 cases of scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, over the last six […]

REGINA – At the legislature Tuesday, MLAs and guests braved the ice and snow to remember those who died during the Holodomor. The Holodomor, the Ukrainian word for “extermination by hunger,” was a Soviet-engineered famine that took place in 1932-33. The famine resulted in the deaths of millions of Ukrainian people. Ceremonies took place at […]

 Update, Nov. 19, 3:36 p.m.: Between 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 19, Saskatchewan RCMP received 44 reports of motor vehicle collisions and incidents through the province. The most common of these incidents were vehicles in the ditch and jackknifed semis. No injuries have been reported to police at this time. The southbound lanes of […]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in October rose eight per cent compared with September. The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 240,761 units in October, up from 223,391 in September. The increase came as the annual pace of urban housing starts […]

Two men are to stand trial on human smuggling charges this week, almost three years after a family from India was found frozen to death on the border between Manitoba and Minnesota. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand are accused of being part of a large operation that brought Indian nationals to Canada on student […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has left Peru for the G20 summit in Brazil as Ottawa seeks its place in a rift between the United States and booming economies in the developing world. The Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum with leaders ranging from long-standing allies such as French President Emmanuel Macron to populist firebrands […]

Former Humboldt Bronco hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki has an entourage these days — complete with cameras and microphones — now that he’s changed his path to the Paralympics from the ice to the hardwood. “Prairie Cat Productions reached out and mentioned this idea of kind of filming me in my wheelchair basketball career and possibly […]