Category Archives: #2 and 3 Stories
Riders use last-minute drive to hold off roaring Lions comeback, win 31-27 to open CFL season
A Sam Emilus hat-trick of touchdowns proved to be the difference as the Saskatchewan Roughriders once again knocked off the B.C. Lions with a late fourth quarter drive.It was similar to the CFL West F...
Jun 14, 2026 Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver Sam Emilus hauls in his first of three touchdowns against the B.C. Lions on June 13, 2026. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders)
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)
'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)
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)
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)
Riders’ KeeSean Johnson ready for action after late-season injury in 2025
KeeSean Johnson was one of the biggest contributors to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2025.But when it came to the biggest moment for the team last season, Johnson had to watch from the sidelines.The...
Jun 11, 2026 Saskatchewan Roughriders wide receiver KeeSean Johnson (3) had nearly 1,200 yards receiving last season, but missed playoffs due to a knee injury. (Image Credit: Britton Gray/CJME)
Nakon’i’a with Kunsi: How a puppet is reviving the Nakoda language
When Theresa O'Watch was a little girl growing up on Carry the Kettle First Nation, language lived all around her.It wasn't something written in books or taught from a curriculum. It was something tha...
Jun 11, 2026 Theresa O’Watch is one of fewer than 100 Nakoda speakers in Canada. With the help of a puppet named Kunsi, she is passing the language down to the next generation. (Image Credit: Brittany Caffet/CKOM)
New prison-art exhibit spotlights issues in colonial prison system
A new, one-of-a-kind exhibition is spotlighting the ongoing issue of over-representation of Indigenous peoples in provincial and federal custody.The exhibition, currently on display in Regina, has bee...
Jun 10, 2026 The Native Brotherhood at Saskatchewan Penitentiary exhibition, curated by Jason Demers, opened in May and runs through September. (Image Credit: EFN Media)