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RCMP announce appointment-only Criminal Record Checks ahead of 2026 Winter Games
Loon Lake RCMP is advising residents that anyone requiring a Criminal Record Check must schedule an appointment in advance. With Meadow Lake hosting the 2026 Winter Games, the detachment is anticipati...
Feb 02, 2026 (Image Credit: ID 103337781 © Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com)
Dates confirmed for provincial campsite bookings
As temperatures slip back into the minus double digits, Saskatchewan residents are being offered some warmer thoughts.The 2026 provincial parks reservation dates have been set. Seasonal campsite booki...
Feb 02, 2026 Provincial campsite reservations are two months away. (Image Credit: Government of Saskatchewan.)
Grey Cup Community Tour kicks off in Humboldt Feb. 7
When the iconic Grey Cup trophy begins its province-wide community tour this weekend, the first stop will be in Humboldt.The visit fulfills a commitment from the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the Bronco...
Feb 02, 2026 Fans will have a chance to see the iconic Grey Cup trophy and take pictures with it during the province-wide community tour in February and March. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders/Facebook)
Meet the P.A. billet mom who helped raise generations of hockey players
PRINCE ALBERT, SASK. - Carole Ring has 40 sons.She brought two of them into the world herself. As for the other 38? The hockey world brought them to her.Over nearly five decades in Prince Albert, Ring...
Feb 02, 2026 Over the course of five decades, Carole Ring became a second mother to dozens of hockey players, including many who would go on to become NHL stars. Leon Draisaitl lived with Ring from 2012 to 2014. (Image Credit: submitted)
Ottawa's plan for GST relief set to cost $12.4 billion over 5 years, PBO says
The government's budget watchdog said Monday it expects the federal government's plan to increase the GST credit and offer a one-time payment to Canadians will cost Ottawa an estimated $12.4 billion o...
Feb 02, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a media event at a grocery store in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Kicker Brett Lauther released by Sask. Roughriders after eight seasons
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are parting ways with kicker Brett Lauther.The team announced on Monday that Lauther has been released after eight seasons, which saw him appear in 114 regular-season game...
Feb 02, 2026 Lauther has been a member of the CFL club for the past eight seasons, appearing in 114 regular-season games and eight playoff games. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Groundhog Day 2026: Willie in Ontario, Fred in Quebec predict early spring’s arrival
HALIFAX - Canada's famous prognosticating rodents are predicting an early spring.Wiarton Willie, in Bruce County, Ont., and Fred la Marmotte, the famous groundhog in Quebec's Gaspsie region reportedly...
Feb 02, 2026 (Image Credit: The Canadian Press)
Ottawa wants to get banks, pension funds involved in affordable housing: minister
OTTAWA - The federal housing minister says he wants to ramp up the lagging pace of homebuilding in some provinces by bringing developers off the sidelines and into Ottawa's affordable housing projects...
Feb 01, 2026 Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Gregor Robertson has held the position since May 13, 2025. (Image Credit: The Canadian Press)
Sask. environment ministry working to preserve migration corridors for pronghorns
Saskatchewan's environment ministry is working alongside the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration to protect the province's pronghorn population by reducing threats to their seasonal migration.The ...
Feb 01, 2026 “Our province is blessed to be part of the pronghorn's Canadian range,” Darlene Rowden, Saskatchewan’s environment minister, said in a statement. (Image Credit: AP Photo/LM Otero)
Running back A.J. Ouellette will return to Roughriders for 2026 season
The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced on Sunday they re-signed American running back A.J. Ouellette to a one-year contract extension.One of the team's top performers on offence in 2025 had remained w...
Feb 01, 2026 Running back A.J. Ouellette was signed to a one-year contract on Feb. 1, the day of the free agency window opening. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders)