Crime & Courts

Father searching for missing daughter calls on province to declare opiod crisis emergency

Carson Poitras believes there is a connection between the province's drug crisis and missing and murdered Indigenous men and women.Poitras, whose daughter Happy Charles has been missing for nearly 8 y...

Mar 14, 2025

Armed robbery suspect goes out on a limb trying to evade police

A traffic stop of suspects wanted in an armed robbery hit new heights when one of them climbed a tree to evade police custody.Lloydminster RCMP and the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) we...

Mar 13, 2025

DNA helps solve historic human remains case in Lloydminster

Science has helped solve the mystery of who a set of human remains found near Lloydminster in 1997 belonged to. A man's body was found near the North Saskatchewan River in November of 1997. The Corone...

Mar 13, 2025

Province opens emergency centre to deal with drug crisis

Hundreds of overdoses in Saskatoon have prompted the government to activate the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC). The Sask. Public Safety Agency, the City, and the Ministry of Health will...

Mar 12, 2025

Two arrested after cocaine seizure in La Loche

A man and a woman are in police custody following a search warrant in Northern Saskatchewan. La Loche RCMP said officers executed two search warrants as part of a drug trafficking investigation on Feb...

Mar 12, 2025

Woman arrested after drugs, cash seized in Meadow Lake traffic stop

A woman was arrested after RCMP seized drugs, cash, and an imitation firearm during a traffic stop on February 26.Officers with the Meadow Lake Crime Reduction Team stopped a vehicle around 10 p.m. on...

Mar 05, 2025

ICE Unit arrests Red Pheasant man for child pornography

After receiving a referral from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children on February 12, 2025, the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit began an investigation around child...

Mar 05, 2025

First Marshals to start work in June, 50 officers to be hired by end of 2025

With the first class of 10 officers onboarding at the new Saskatchewan Marshal Service, paNOW reached out to Chief Marshal Rob Cameron for some more details on how, when and where the service will bec...

Mar 04, 2025

First class of Marshal Service starts training

The first 10 new members of the Saskatchewan Marshal's Service have started their training, the agency said in a news release today. While they are initially hiring experienced officers, the hirees ar...

Mar 03, 2025

Supreme Court dismisses appeal from Saskatchewan government involving Métis group

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal from the Saskatchewan government over a lawsuit alleging a Mtis organization wasn't consulted over uranium exploration permits.The unanimous ruling ...

Mar 01, 2025