Category Archives: Saskatchewan
Police lay fraud charge in Kindersley travel agent case
Saskatchewan RCMP have laid a charge following a long-running investigation into complaints about a Kindersley travel agency. Complaints about T&T Travel Ltd. started coming to light back in Janua...
May 24, 2017
Hannah Leflar's family speaks as sentencing hearing ends
After two weeks of testimony and two weeks of tears for the family of Hannah Leflar, the sentencing hearing for the teen who killed her has wrapped up. “It’s been really disgusting and rea...
May 24, 2017
Charges laid in Makwa Sahgaiehcan standoff
An arrest has been made in an armed standoff that kept Loon Lake RCMP busy all day on Friday, May 12. The local detachment has charged 27-year-old Corey Meesto - also of Loon Lake - with the assaultin...
May 23, 2017
Proposed Sask. geothermal plant could have more than 1 use
A new proposed geothermal power plant near Estevan, Sask. could have other uses besides generating electricity. Earlier this week it was announced SaskPower and DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. had ...
May 23, 2017
'It's scary:' new flag people prepared for highway dangers
This year is Albert Brown’s first summer working as a highway flag person. He took the job as a way to make extra money before returning to Medicine Hat for schooling. He realized right from the...
May 19, 2017
Worker's $137K compensation fraud largest in Sask. history
A Hudson Bay man is going to jail for defrauding the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board in the largest fraud case in history against the board. Larry Hayter was sentenced on Thursday at Co...
May 19, 2017
Kittens thrown, 'lit on fire' in Prince Albert: SPCA
The Prince Albert SPCA is investigating allegations of animal cruelty involving five one-week-old kittens last week. A post on the organization’s Facebook page Thursday said a member of the publ...
May 18, 2017
More charges faced, another lawyer needed for Alexa Emerson
The woman suspected of sending white powder packages and bomb threats around Saskatoon is now facing charges related to two bomb scares just outside the city. Alexa Emerson, a.k.a. Amanda Totchek, is ...
May 18, 2017
Sask. provincial parks open for 2017
Saskatchewan’s provincial parks are officially open for camping season. As in past years, an alcohol ban will be in place for the May long weekend, going into effect for 2017 from May 18-22. Wit...
May 18, 2017
New deadline for PST on Sask. insurance premiums
The Government of Saskatchewan is giving people a little more time before provincial sales tax is (PST) is applied to insurance premiums. The move to tax premiums was announced in the last provincial ...
May 17, 2017