Member of Parliament Rosemarie Falk said the federal budget leaves agriculture and forestry out of a new capital gains tax exemption and fails to address constituents' concerns about the cost of living."While presented as support for entrepreneurs and business owners, it specifically excludes agriculture and fores...

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe told a group of municipal and business leaders on Friday that once the Port of Churchill can show strong interest from business, getting related government infrastructure funding will flow more easily. Moe was speaking in Prince Albert at the annual meeting of the Hudson Bay Route Associ...

Meadow Lake RCMP have charged a 28-year-old man with arson in connection with a church fire last month.Police said there is no indication the fire was ideologically motivated.On Oct. 1, around 2:00 a.m., RCMP received a report of a fire at a church on 2nd Street East in Meadow Lake.Officers attended the scene alongside...

Lauren Stremick remembers more than 100 people waiting outside before the doors opened at Meadow Lake's largest Christmas market last year. The Holly Berry Christmas Craft Show was returning after five years away. Stremick estimates around 2,000 shoppers attended.This year, she is expanding the show to two days after h...

A group of rural reeves plans to meet with two Saskatchewan cabinet ministers in December after reports of repeated thefts and break-ins in the Rural Municipality of Shellbrook.Shellbrook Reeve Christine Strube said some residents have been targeted more than once. What worries her most is that some break-ins have happ...

The Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Radiothon raised more than $1.5 million to help care teams assess sick and injured children at the bedside and share ultrasound images with specialists across Saskatchewan.The two-day fundraiser wrapped up Thursday around 5 p.m. after 37 radio stations across the province aired stor...

Lloydminster's proposed 2027 budget would add $120 to the annual property tax bill for a $350,000 home and identifies $42.2 million in unfunded capital projects.The first draft includes a 3.75 per cent municipal tax-rate increase and an increase in the infrastructure tax rate to 1.5 per cent from one per cent. It also ...

Gas prices in Saskatchewan are starting to drop, with some stations dropping as far as 30 cents per litre in the last week. According to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis with GasBuddy.com, there's two main factors contributing to the price drop: refineries returning to full production, and positive talks bet...

Cenovus Energy will halt operations Dec. 15 at its Lloydminster ethanol plant, which has bought about 350,000 tonnes of grain a year from farmers.The company said in a written statement that the decision follows an economic review."We are working to transition ethanol plant employees to other roles in the company....

Members of Saskatchewan's government will be watching what comes out of Ottawa Thursday afternoon, as the federal government unveils its Budget 2026.Sask. Finance Minister Jim Reiter said there are already some things that were announced ahead of time that his government is pleased with, including the productivity mega...

A forensic DNA expert says investigators assessing the scene of this week's deadly bear attack in Bella Coola, B.C., will likely use techniques to identify the culprit animal very similar to those used on a human crime scene. Dean Hildebrand, who overs...

OTTAWA - Advocates are welcoming news that the federal government plans to end homelessness within 10 years - a crisis they say has been decades in the making. This week's federal budget estimated about 65,000 Canadians are homeless, but Tim Richter of...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin says she's confident the billions of dollars in tax credits in the new federal budget will encourage private investment to build out Canada's electricity grid. Thursday's federal budget committed $50 billion...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Friday accused the government of hiding the facts on the number of newcomers it's bringing to Canada, despite the focus in the new immigration levels plan on people who are already here. In Winnipeg, Pri...

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is asking the Competition Bureau to examine whether Cleveland-Cliffs' rationale for acquiring Stelco Inc. was conducted in bad faith. In a letter to the competition commissioner, Joly points to Cleveland-Cliffs chief exec...

OTTAWA - The latest federal budget promises billions of dollars in affordability relief, but middle-income Canadians struggling with the cost of living may find little new immediate help in the spending plan. While Ottawa earmarked fresh assistance for...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Friday that he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss "several weeks" of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation facility....

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Pope Leo XIV arrived in Uruguay on Friday to begin a three-nation South American tour, less than a month after lung surgery and eight years after a pope last visited the continent. With Uruguay's President Yaman...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) - Pope Leo XIV said Friday that he was "proud to be an American and to exercise the right" to vote in U.S. midterm elections that gave control of Congress to the Democrats in a repudiation of U.S. President Donald Trump and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. Miller, long a key member of ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democrats in Arizona won control of both legislative chambers and retained the governor's office, giving the party its first trifecta in the state since 1966 as Democrats made major gains nationwide in this week's elections and took cont...

The father of the 20-year-old co-pilot who died along with eight others when their Learjet crashed in Florida said Friday he has listened to his daughter's heartbreaking final radio transmissions "many times" since the crash. Allan Filgue...