After over 40 days of tents being set up in front of City Hall, Regina’s city council is set to hold a special council meeting about the encampment. The special meeting will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. with council set to provide “direction regarding how to address the encampment in the short-term,” given the […]
The Swift Current area was on the receiving end of a hail storm that came through on Saturday. Richard Cuthbert is a wheat breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, based in Swift Current. He says the storm was heading towards the community, and by 6:20 p.m. that day the winds started to pick up, then […]
AC units will be getting a workout today as a heat warning covers all of south and west-central parts of Saskatchewan. The warning goes up to North Battleford, extends down into Leader and Maple Creek in the southwest, then stretches east towards Moose Jaw, Regina, Fort Qu’Appelle, Indian Head and Carlyle. Other areas under the […]
Harvard Media and Harvard Media News is announcing the launch of “Sask Ag Today dot com”. The new web site is dedicated to covering the fast-moving prairie agricultural industry. With its launch coinciding with the opening of Ag in Motion in Langham, SK, Harvard Media is more than doubling its investment in agricultural news and […]
RCMP say they have responded to seven calls involving suspected fentanyl overdoses in an area of southwestern Saskatchewan. Mounties say three people died, with the other four requiring officers to administer naloxone to resuscitate them. RCMP say the deaths happened on May 14, July 4 and July 12 in the Kindersley area, about 380 kilometres northwest […]
Carbon pricing, or the ‘carbon tax,’ has been a hot issue for Saskatchewan residents and the province’s agriculture industry. Federal Natural Resource Minister Jonathan Wilkinson was asked about the federal carbon pricing policy during a Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce event. “The underlying kind of argument for the price is it is the most economically efficient […]
At this summer’s Regina Folk Festival, you’ll have a smile on your face listening to Alan Doyle, but you won’t have four walls around you at Victoria Park. The 52nd version of the festival has former Great Big Sea frontman Doyle and other headliners like The Strumbellas, Grammy-nominated Allison Russell, and the Halluci Nation. But […]
Gordon Lightfoot, the legendary folk singer whose silvery refrains told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported to listeners worldwide, has died at 84. Victoria Lord, the musician’s longtime publicist and a representative for the family, says Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday evening. A cause of death was not immediately available. […]
The Government of Saskatchewan is looking to provide “Growth That Works for Everyone” after unveiling its 2023-24 provincial budget. The province is set to see a surplus of $1 billion with revenue of $19.7 billion due to $9.6 billion in taxation revenue, a $1.5 billion increase with Corporate Income, Personal Income and Provincial Sales Tax […]
Saskatchewan’s population is hitting new highs. Numbers released by the provincial government, hours before the budget is released, show the population stands at 1,214,618. According to the Sask Party government, that’s an increase of 29,307 people, and is the second largest growth rate in a single year in Saskatchewan. Premier Scott Moe says the province’s […]
