Saskatchewan

RCMP psych nurse program to be permanent

After a year-long test run, the Saskatchewan RCMP will have psychiatric nurses permanently on staff at the operational communication centre. RCMP say that during the 12 months of the trial, 99.8 per c...

Dec 23, 2022

RSV cases increase as do pediatric hospitalizations

Even as COVID hospitalizations are starting to drop again, the number of children hospitalized with RSV infections in Saskatchewan has doubled. In the week of December 11 to 17, 37 people (almost all ...

Dec 23, 2022

Moe to run again for premier, looks to lead Saskatchewan out of Alberta's shadow

Premier Scott Moe says he plans to run in the next provincial election and wants to turn Saskatchewan into a leader in the west for decades to come. In a recent year-end interview with The Canadian Pr...

Dec 23, 2022

How to increase chances of getting on a flight as cancelations continue to pop up

Are you concerned your flight for the holidays is going to be canceled?Cancelations have been popping up left and right over the past couple of days, mostly in Vancouver and Toronto due to poor weathe...

Dec 22, 2022

COVID, growth and the federal government: Moe looks back at 2022, ahead to 2023

As he speeds into the new year with ideas about growth and autonomy, Premier Scott Moe paused to take a look back at the work done in the year that's about to end.Moe thinks Saskatchewan did a good jo...

Dec 22, 2022

Santa makes a visit to the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital

Kids at the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital received a special visit from good ol' St. Nick.Santa Claus recently made a special trip to visit the children, families, and moms-to-be in the hospital. Y...

Dec 22, 2022

SARM president says new provincial tax change will hurt rural municipalities

Rural municipalities in Saskatchewan previously had the ability to tax commercial property at nines times the rate that they've been allowed to tax agricultural property.That ratio has now been lowere...

Dec 22, 2022

Over 500 complaints made this year by Pine Grove inmates, ministry confirms

Over the course of 11 months this year, there have been 512 formal complaints issued by inmates at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert.That's according to information provided to paNOW...

Dec 21, 2022

Hague company fined after worker injured on job

A company based in the town of Hague has been fined $90,000 after a worker was seriously injured after falling off a work platform.King Stud Contracting Ltd. pled guilty in Saskatoon Provincial Court ...

Dec 21, 2022

Saskatchewan population passes 1.2 million for first time

More people than ever before are calling Saskatchewan home.According to the provincial government, record-high growth of 10,316 in the third quarter of 2022 sent the provincial population over 1.2 mil...

Dec 21, 2022