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Festival of Trees raises over $100K as Meadow Lake rallies behind local hospital
The Meadow Lake Hospital Foundation's biggest night of the year has once again delivered a major shot of support for local health care, with the Festival of Trees raising $112,600 for new medical equi...
Dec 02, 2025

Death of woman in Meadow Lake now deemed non-suspicious: RCMP
Saskatchewan RCMP say a woman found dead in a Meadow Lake parking lot last week did not die under suspicious circumstances.In an update issued Tuesday, RCMP Major Crimes said investigators, working wi...
Dec 02, 2025
Sask. company excited after drilling country’s first natural hydrogen well
A Saskatoon-based company is eagerly poring over the data from what is described as Canada's first-ever natural hydrogen well.Located just outside Central Butte, northwest of Moose Jaw, completion of ...
Dec 02, 2025

Search underway for two missing 15-year-olds last seen in Green Lake: RCMP
RCMP in Meadow Lake are asking for the public's help to find two 15-year-olds reported missing from the community of Green Lake.Mounties say Brooklyn Yahyahkeekoot and Skyler Roy were last seen togeth...
Dec 01, 2025

'This is not an Indian problem. This is a social problem,' BATC chief says as policing concerns escalate
Chiefs with the Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC) say shootings, gang activity, drug trafficking and delayed RCMP response times have created a public-safety crisis in their communities, and the...
Dec 01, 2025

Vaadeland celebrates big night at SCMA awards
Cut Knife's Jake Vaadeland had a very big night at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards Gala.In addition to winning Male Artist of the Year, Vaadeland also won for Alternative Country Album of the Ye...
Dec 01, 2025
Why one American big-game hunter keeps returning to Saskatchewan
On a brisk morning north of Leoville, the bush is still, holding its breath.Frost clings to every branch and the rising sun paints the boreal forest in silver.Somewhere in that half-light, watching th...
Dec 01, 2025
Advocacy group pleased with Saskatchewan move to help gun owners
Changes to provincial firearms legislation in response to the federal gun buyback program are being described by the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) as a positive step.Proposed changes to the S...
Dec 01, 2025

‘Fool’s errand’: Why the Exxon Valdez looms large over northern pipeline debate
VICTORIA - The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Colum...
Nov 30, 2025
Ice in Saskatchewan is still too thin to walk on, says RCMP
Temperatures may be dropping, but Saskatchewan RCMP wants to remind people that ice on lakes, rivers, sloughs, ponds and dugouts in the province is still too thin to walk on.Corporal Jamie Diemert, co...
Nov 30, 2025