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 A major grocery chain is coming to Saskatchewan.Save-On-Foods has 145 locations in B.C. and Alberta and will unveil its expansion plans for Regina and Saskatchewan on Thursday. It's not yet clea...

An employee of a Saskatchewan school division racked up nearly $10,000 worth of long-distance calls on the taxpayer's dime, according to a new report.For the first time, the Ministry of Education is r...

A rollover involving a cement truck detoured traffic in north Regina Monday morning.By 10:30 a.m., the truck was on its side on Diefenbaker Drive by Pasqua Street. The windows of the cab were broken, ...

It's still not safe for evacuees from northern Saskatchewan to return home after wildfires continue to threaten their communities. Vern Studer's daughter Darlene had to convince him to evacuate his La...

The gates to the Craven Country Jamboree are to officially open on Tuesday at 9 a.m.But that doesn't mean you should line up now to get in first. Organizers say anyone lining up on the highway will be...

The wildfires in northern Saskatchewan are not only causing problems for humans, they're threatening the animals that reside in the north.The Northern Animal Rescue, based in La Ronge, is looking for ...

Fire investigators are looking into two suspicious fires that happened early Monday morning in Saskatoon. The first started at 321 Avenue E South at approximately 3:45 a.m. The garage had a fire on Su...

Mona Bell didn't have time to think about where she would end up as she quickly packed her belongings in La Ronge while a giant fire encroached on her community. "I was pretty shocked at first. I wasn...

More than a year after being fired as the University of Saskatchewan's president, Ilene Busch-Vishniac is leaving the campus. Busch-Vishniac had been serving as a professor in the Department of Mechan...

Communities around Lac La Ronge are slowly evacuating as fire continues to threaten their homes. Two dozen full buses carried 1,078 people out of La Ronge, Air Ronge and Lac La Ronge Indian Band just ...