Feelings of overwhelming surprise and gratitude are how winners of the Meadow Lake Business Excellence Awards are feeling the day after their big night. "This was a complete surprise, I'm still in shock," said Shelly Rowland, winner of the Indigenous Leader Award, sponsored by SaskWater. The health manager of...

Roots of Hope is celebrating five years of suicide prevention work in Meadow Lake and area, on Thursday, May 2, at the Meadow Lake Community Life Centre (Meadow Lake Alliance Church). A community suicide prevention initiative that came about to address the high number of youth struggling with suicide-related concerns, ...

The new Meadow Lake arena and recreation facility received a boost of funding support today.Innovation Federal Credit Union will donate up to $1 million to the initiative in a community match program.With the commitment of $1 million "through a dollar-for-dollar community match," the Field House within the Co...

Carbon capture and storage is in Meadow Lake's future. The Meadow Lake Tribal Council has partnered with Carbon Alpha for the North Star Project to capture the CO2 emitted from a biomass project and inject it into the earth. The development will add an additional layer to the MLTC Bioenergy Centre with the carbon dioxi...

After a successful first year in Prince Albert, the Canadian Centre for Raw Materials is bringing more international interest to the city. The Second Annual Raw Materials Conference begins Monday in Prince Albert with about 14 delegates, many from Africa, attending the event, hosted by the Canadian Centre for Raw Mater...

Some spring showers - and possibly snow - could hit the province this week.Erik Dykes, senior meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the forecast is calling for steady rain and pockets of heavy showers across all of Saskatchewan from Tuesday through Friday.It is quite a broad area of low pressure that is coming in...

Indigenous hockey teams from across the prairies are in Prince Albert this weekend for the eighth annual Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) Senator's Cup. The 2024 edition of the tournament will feature 19 teams competing for the grand prize, three more than last year when they had 16. This year will feature three team...

Teaching people how much damage wildfires can cause and how people can prevent them is the target of a new campaign by the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC).The PAGC is teaming up with the Sask. Public Safety Agency (SPSA) to run the educational campaign starting in May and finishing in June. "Human-caused fires ...

The fate of a former Saskatchewan RCMP officer, who shot and killed his young lover, now rests in the hands of a King's Bench Justice.A sentencing decision for Bernie Herman has been reserved to June 18.Thursday morning's hearing at Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert lasted roughly two hours and included sentencing...

What's expected to be a lengthy and emotional sentencing hearing for a former Saskatchewan Mountie guilty of manslaughter, will begin today at Court of King's Bench in Prince Albert.Bernie Herman, 55, has been in custody since last January's verdict.The morning proceedings are expected to include extensive arguments fr...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are pushing the Liberals to end allowing drug use in public after British Columbia announced it wants to scale back its decriminalization pilot project. B.C. Premier David Eby says the province is looking for an "urgent" change to a Health Canada exemption so that police ca...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are demanding to see contracts related to six electric vehicle projects underway in Canada for information on what they do to protect local union jobs. The Tories plan to table a motion today at a House of Commons committee meeting, asking to view contracts and provisions that may ...

MONTREAL - McGill University says the camp set up by pro-Palestinian student activists on the institution's grounds in Montreal violates school policies and the law. More than two dozen tents had been pitched at the school's downtown campus on Sunday afternoon, with a steady stream of visitors stopping by to drop off d...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Pro-Palestinian encampment at Montreal's McGill University Pro-Palestinian student activists in Montreal have set up camp on the grounds of McGill University this weekend. It follows a wave of simila...

MONTREAL - Pro-Palestinian student activists in Montreal have set up camp on the grounds of McGill University this weekend, following a wave of similar protests on campuses across the United States. More than two dozen tents had been pitched at the school's downtown campus On Sunday afternoon, with a steady stream of v...

VANCOUVER - Advocates for drug users are raising concerns about British Columbia's request for Health Canada to empower police to step in when they see illicit drug use in public spaces, saying it may be a step backward in the fight against the deadly opioid crisis. Brittany Graham, the executive director of the Vancou...

LONDON (AP) - Scotland's first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change. Yousaf, whose Scottish National Party has been weakened by a campaign finance scandal and divisions ov...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, police said. The Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, collapsed and water spilled d...

Candace Parker always said she'd know when it would be time to retire. That day came Sunday. The three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist announced on social media that her career was over after 16 seasons. "The competitor in me always wants 1 more, but it's time," Parker wrote in an Instag...

Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting "vampire facial" procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles, federal health officials said.The Centers for Disease Control and ...

U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn't order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February, according to an official familiar with the determination.While U.S. officials believe Putin was ultimately responsible for the death of Navalny, who...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - President Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary Sunday in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was authorized to open only a dozen voting centers this year compared with more than 100 in previous years given recent austerity measures imposed by a federal control board ...