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Jon Hromek steps down as Sask. United Party Leader
Jon Hromek, the leader of the Saskatchewan United Party, announced his resignation and decided to step away from the party after they failed to win any seat in the October provincial election.Accordin...
Dec 31, 2024

'It wasn't safe': Being trans in rural Saskatchewan
Quinn Loewen's classmates never knew him by his identity: it wasn't safe. He went to Medstead Central School, roughly an hour from the Battlefords and is situated in the conservative village of Medste...
Dec 30, 2024

Here are the top names for Saskatchewan babies in 2024
Although 2024 has ended, its new generation lives on. paNOW took a look at the most popular baby names in Saskatchewan over the last year. Popular classic names still top the list, with 49 baby boys n...
Dec 30, 2024
Bloodlines and Blows: The viral father/son Sask. Senior A hockey fight
A family battle royal on ice between 48-year-old Chris Ewen and his 27-year-old son Tyler Driedger during a Senior A hockey game is still buzzing about the internet, a week later.We have a Sasky Senio...
Dec 30, 2024

Raised in Sask. after his family fled Hungary, this man spent decades spying on communists for the RCMP
As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books.But he also had tasks his party comrades could k...
Dec 29, 2024
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100
Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White H...
Dec 29, 2024

A plane crashes and bursts into flames while landing in South Korea, killing 179
A passenger plane skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport Sunday, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames after its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of th...
Dec 29, 2024

'Let's not panic': Canada picks up the pieces after ugly Latvia loss at World Juniors
Peter Anholt tried to keep things light as he emerged from one of the elevators at Canada's hotel.The temperature had been turned way up on the veteran hockey executive and the country's under-20 prog...
Dec 29, 2024
Putin apologizes for ‘tragic incident’ but stops short of saying Azerbaijani plane was shot down
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 3...
Dec 28, 2024
Canadian defenceman Matthew Schaefer out for rest of World Juniors due to injury
Matthew Schaefer has dealt with adversity and heartache throughout his young life.One of the top prospects for the 2025 NHL draft must now overcome yet another hurdle.The 17-year-old defenceman will m...
Dec 28, 2024