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Heat warnings issued for the Battlefords, Lloydminster, Meadow Lake

August long is starting off on a scorching note.Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for northwest Saskatchewan amid high temperatures hitting the entire region. A heat warning stems from the h...

Jul 28, 2022

Pope Francis leads reconciliation mass at Quebec City-area pilgrimage site

Pope Francis is hosting a reconciliation-themed mass in Quebec before a congregation made up largely of residential school survivors and other Indigenous people, a day after expressing shame and sorro...

Jul 28, 2022

City engineer hired in Meadow Lake

The City of Meadow Lake has a new city engineer.Shane Richard has taken the post, following council ratifying the hiring during this week's council meeting. This fills a role that was vacant for nearl...

Jul 27, 2022

Laboucane moves up CPCA standings in Little Pine

The CPCA standings continued to shuffle after the past weekend of chuckwagon racing in Little Pine First Nation.Jamie Laboucane of St. Walburg is the new standings leader after another steady showing ...

Jul 26, 2022

Province’s plan to reduce surgical wait times raises questions for health-care workers

The Saskatchewan government's plan for cutting into provincial surgical wait times comes with more questions than answers for the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN).The province laid out some ideas in...

Jul 26, 2022

Pope Francis issues long-awaited apology for church’s role in residential schools

The apology thousands of Indigenous people in Canada have been waiting for was delivered Monday.During a ceremony at the site of a former residential school in Maskwacis, Alta., Pope Francis apologize...

Jul 25, 2022

Day 2 of Pope visit to include stops at a former residential school, Edmonton church

Pope Francis is expected to speak publicly for the first time during his Canadian visit at a meeting Monday morning with First Nations, Inuit and Mtis peoples in a community south of Edmonton. The day...

Jul 25, 2022

Pope arrives in Canada for 'penitential' visit aimed at Indigenous reconciliation

Pope Francis arrived in Edmonton on Sunday to an honour drum song ahead of what he describes as a "penitential" trip aimed at reconciliation with Indigenous people for the Catholic Church's role in re...

Jul 24, 2022

Coverchuk looking to seize opportunity at PBR Team Series

Saskatchewan's Cody Coverchuk is set to grab the bull by the horns next week when the inaugural PBR Team Series kicks off in Cheyenne, Wyo. The Meadow Lake product, who is coming off a historic 2021 c...

Jul 22, 2022

CPCA tour continues in Little Pine First Nation

The Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) returns this weekend in Little Pine First Nation.Following more than a week of racing for drivers competing at the Calgary Stampede or the North...

Jul 22, 2022