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‘What was the point?’: SaskTel employee frustrated with tentative contract

After 17 days of job action, including frigid days on the picket line, some workers at SaskTel are frustrated with the tentative contract agreed to by the union.During negotiations and picketing, Unif...

Oct 31, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)

Baby Sydney may be going home Tuesday

There is a bit of light for the Jenkins family.In a Facebook post Monday, Scott Jenkins said all the machines have been removed from his daughter Sydney and she is now doing demand feeding.Jenkins sai...

Oct 28, 2019 Baby Sydney at the NICU in Saskatoon's Jim Pattison Children's Hospital.(Scott Jenkins/Facebook)

Search and rescue teams brave cold in key exercise

It's a bitterly cold Saturday morning. There's snow in the air, and it's minus 12 with the wind chill. Not a day for a stroll in the woods. Or maybe it is.These are the sorts of days members of the Se...

Oct 26, 2019 Search and rescue volunteers from across the province converged near Prince Albert Saturday. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)

Jolibois has 'great concerns' for new MP elected in northern riding

With all of Saskatchewan represented by Conservative MPs, Georgina Jolibois is concerned the new representative for Desneth-Missinippi-Churchill River riding won't be there when constituents need him ...

Oct 22, 2019 Former NDP MP Georgina Jolibois doesn't know why voter participation was so low. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

Ample number of fall suppers to binge on province wide

Your' belt line may be straining from second and third helpings of Thanksgiving dinner, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to fit a couple more legs of turkey and slices of pumpkin pie onto your'...

Oct 14, 2019 If Thanksgiving long-weekend hasn't provided enough opportunities for turkey indulgence a Facebook group is helping out. (paNOW Staff/ Ronald Quaroni)

Meadow Lake paralympic hopeful receives grant for shot at games

A swimmer from Meadow Lake will receive some financial assistance to help her reach her goal of competing for Canada at the 2020 Paralympic Games.Nikita Ens was named as one of 55 young Canadian athle...

Oct 09, 2019 Nikita Ens competing in backstroke event (supplied photo/Nikita Ens)

Indie pot shops seek cooperative wholesale, distribution

Some of Saskatchewan's private independent cannabis shops are forming a co-operative to thwart what they see as the challenges from the already dominant corporate sector in the new legal cannabis mark...

Oct 04, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Saskatchewan woman enjoys big business success on Wall Street

A former Prince Albert resident recently enjoyed a big day at the New York Stock Exchange.Michelle Zatlyn and the company she co-founded, Cloudflare, recently launched an initial public stock offering...

Oct 01, 2019 Michelle Zatlyn rings the bell to open trading at the New York Stock Exchange Sept. 13 (Michelle Zatlyn/Twitter)

P.A. woman enjoys big business success stateside

A former Prince Albert resident recently enjoyed a big day at the New York Stock Exchange.Michelle Zatlyn, and the company she co-founded, Cloudflare, recently launched an initial public stock offerin...

Oct 01, 2019 Michelle Zatlyn rings the bell to open trading at the New York Stock Exchange Sept. 13 (Michelle Zatlyn/Twitter)

'What a role model:' Paralyzed Bronco makes Adidas ad, hall of fame nominee list

AIRDRIE, Alta. - An ad shows a serious Ryan Straschnitzki taping up his hockey stick and pulling on an Adidas jersey before he slides away on an ice sled. "As a kid I always dreamed of ...

Sep 29, 2019 (File Photo/The Canadian Press)