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Nearly three years after Randall Nicotine died at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre, a public inquest is to look into his death. The Saskatchewan government announced Friday the inquest is ...

It’s nearly time for those with elm trees on their properties to put away the pruning shears. The Saskatchewan government says the annual ban on pruning elm trees in the province starts next Fri...

The key indicators for COVID-19 in Saskatchewan all rose during the latest reporting period. In the weekly epidemiological report issued Thursday by the Ministry of Health, the number of new cases inc...

What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a meteor! Lucky Saskatchewan residents who were outside Tuesday night got to see a bolide light up the night sky. Lorna Janeczko saw it on...

Saskatchewan's government is vowing it won't wait to address the province's surgical wait list. In the 2022-23 budget released Wednesday, the Saskatchewan Party put an increase of $21.6 million toward...

Saskatchewan's finance minister sees the expansion of the Provincial Sales Tax and the projected reduction of the surgical wait list as a tradeoff. "(The expanded PST) will generate annually a little ...

Here's how the Saskatchewan budget, released Wednesday, is going to impact you.   Psst! Get ready for an expanded PST The province is expanding the Provincial Sales Tax for the third time since 2...

People in Saskatchewan are going to have to pay a few dollars more to be entertained starting in October. As part of the 2022-23 budget released Wednesday, Finance Minister Donna Harpauer announced th...

Denmark is coming to Saskatchewan. The CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Wednesday they had signed defensive back Stephen Denmark. The 25-year-old product of Tallahassee, Fla., was select...

Lower than average. That's what Kurtis Doney - the City of Regina's director of water, waste, and environment - says about the number of water main breaks in the city for this time of year. He says th...