Saskatchewan

Scheer's resignation tips party into internal war over school tuition payments

OTTAWA - Signs began to emerge Friday that the coming race to replace outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will be an acid test for whether social conservatives have a place in the Conserva...

Dec 15, 2019

P.A. hosts NSTA Fur Table

Trappers from all over the North were in Prince Albert on Saturday for the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association (NSTA) Fur Table.Five buyers were on location looking to make purchases and organi...

Dec 14, 2019 A potential buyer takes a look at a few skins at the NSTA Fur Table in Prince Albert. (Ian Gustafson/paNOW Staff)

APTN to broadcast hockey games in Plains Cree starting with Jets at Blackhawks

WINNIPEG - APTN and Rogers Sportsnet agreed a three-year deal on Friday to broadcast NHL games in Plains Cree. The first of six games to be broadcast on APTN in the Indigenous language will be when th...

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‘You were everything to me’: Kindersley family, community grieve after separated couple murder-suicide

A woman who was killed in a murder-suicide in Kindersley on Thursday is being remembered as a loving mother, grandmother and co-worker by family and the larger community.Elsie Gartner, 64, a health wo...

Dec 13, 2019 Elsie Gartner is seen in a photo dated 2014. (Elsie Gartner/Facebook)

Brad Wall not interested in Conservative leadership

Since Thursday's news that Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was resigning from his position with the party, people have already started speculating who the new Tory leader will be.The name of former ...

Dec 13, 2019 Former Premier Brad Wall. (submitted photo)

Widow sues child and family services agency for wrongful death

Cora Laich, who's husband Simon Grant was murdered in La Ronge in April 2017, is suing the Lac La Ronge Indian Band Child and Family Services Agency Inc. for wrongful death caused by negligence.A stat...

Dec 13, 2019 Cora Laich and her late husband Simon Grant. (Submitted photo/Cora Laich)

Saskatchewan residents to see power bills rise; SaskPower warns about phone scam

Saskatchewan residents will be paying more for power in the new year.The carbon tax is set to increase Jan. 1 from $20 a tonne to $30. SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cherry explained what the increase wi...

Dec 13, 2019 The Crown-owned power company says bills are set to climb and warning residents about a phone scam. (File Photo/paNOW Staff)

Statistics Canada, SPS look back at the first year of legalization

Statistics Canada released its one-year report on pot sales and people in Saskatchewan aren't doling out major dollars like their provincial neighbours.Nearly $908 million was spent at the more than 4...

Dec 13, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

UPDATE: Two found dead at Kindersley home following police standoff

Two people are dead following a long police standoff at a Kindersley home.According to a release from Saskatchewan RCMP, a man and a woman were located deceased in the home around 3 p.m.No other peopl...

Dec 13, 2019 Kindersley RCMP respond to report of a gunshot at a home on 1st Street West on Thursday, December 12, 2019. (submitted/Jenny Hagan)

Race to replace Scheer as federal Conservative leader could be crowded

OTTAWA - Moments after Andrew Scheer announced Thursday his intention to resign as Conservative party leader, speculation turned to who will replace him. Two of his prominent rivals in the 2017 leader...

Dec 12, 2019