Author Archives: Pattison Media
From Bannock to Broadcast TV – Grandma Sherry Serves Culture on APTN
It's something she had done hundreds of times. In her home kitchen, with her niece on a summer day in 2024, Grandma Sherry made a batch of her now-famous bannock.Her niece took a video of the process ...
Jun 13, 2026 Grandma Sherry's Kitchen premiered this spring on APTN. (Image Credit: APTN)
Riders WR Jaylen Johnson set for CFL debut against BC Lions
Jaylen Johnson will get the first opportunity on Saturday to show he's the right piece for the Saskatchewan Roughriders puzzle.The wide receiver won one of the starting spots in the team's offence aft...
Jun 12, 2026 Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver Jaylen Johnson will make his CFL debut on June 13, 2026, against the B.C. Lions. (Image Credit: Jaylen Johnson/Instagram)
'Everybody's got to be on board': Communities urge preparedness after wildfire review
Communities that found themselves on the front lines of Saskatchewan's devastating 2025 wildfire season said that a new independent review confirms many of the challenges they experienced as wildfires...
Jun 12, 2026 Rebuilding continues in Denare Beach, a community still recovering from last year's wildfires. The Deputy Mayor is pleased with the recommendations made in an independent review of the SPSA's wildfire response last summer. (Image Credit: Eric Schmalz/Facebook)
Buyer expecting large morel crops in Northern Sask.
A mushroom buyer is expecting a bumper crop year for morels near La Ronge and other parts of Northern Saskatchewan. Andrey Vinogradov of White Raven Foraging has set up a camp at the junction of Highw...
Jun 12, 2026 Morels are found in great quantities following a wildfire. (Image Credit: ID 111373101 © Andrew Phelps | Dreamstime.com)
Review finds Sask. Public Safety Agency ‘was not fully prepared’ for 2025 wildfire season
An independent review into the Government of Saskatchewan's response to the destructive 2025 wildfire season - the worst in Saskatchewan's history - found the province's public safety agency wasn't ad...
Jun 12, 2026 A photo of the Lobstick Fire shared on May 31, 2026 by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency/Facebook)
Tornado that destroyed Alameda farm was strongest in Sask. since 2010
The tornado that flattened an Alameda farmyard on Tuesday was the strongest Saskatchewan has seen in more than a decade.The Northern Tornadoes Project, a research group based at Western University, as...
Jun 12, 2026 Erin Brown captured footage of the tornado south of Oxbow on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Image Credit: Erin Brown/Facebook)
El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.Experts said the El Nino, a natural war...
Jun 12, 2026 FILE - A firefighter monitors flames caused by the Hughes Fire along Castaic Lake in Castaic, Calif., Jan. 22, 2025. (Image Credit: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
NDP calls for more treatment, recovery supports amid Lloydminster drug crisis
The topics of addiction, homelessness and mental health took centre stage in Lloydminster as NDP MLA Erika Ritchie called on the Saskatchewan Party government to invest more in treatment and recovery ...
Jun 11, 2026 NDP Leader Carla Beck and MLA Erika Ritchie during an unrelated event. (Image Credit: Alyssa Rudolph/ battlefordsNOW)
North Battleford bull rider climbs in national standing after strong Manitoba weekend
For Wyatt Fennig, the biggest breakthrough of the season didn't come from changing the way he rides.It came from changing the way he thinks.The 24-year-old North Battleford bull rider, who finished ei...
Jun 11, 2026 North Battleford bull rider Wyatt Fennig rides Elk for 85 points in the short round at the Bull Riders Canada event in Grunthal, Man., on June 5, 2026. (Image Credit: Wyatt Fennig/Instagram)
East Central Saskatchewan falls behind in seeding
Most of Saskatchewan is nearing the finish line for seeding operations. Provincially, 93 per cent of seed is in the ground, still well behind the five and 10-year averages. The west-central region lea...
Jun 11, 2026 (Image Credit: file photo/farmnewsNOW Staff)