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Saskatchewan is set to make the antiviral COVID-19 pill available to eligible residents. In a media release Tuesday, the provincial government said Paxlovid - the only COVID pill approved so far by He...

Former Regina Pats star Jordan Weal is getting his shot at Olympic gold. The 29-year-old product of North Vancouver, B.C., has been named to the team that will represent Canada in men's hockey in the ...

The Regina Police Service's plan to buy a plane is getting more funding to help it get off the ground. During City of Regina budget deliberations in December, the police service got the OK to spend $1...

Saskatchewan is back out of the deep freeze. The extreme cold warnings Environment Canada had issued Tuesday for areas across the province were lifted in the early afternoon as temperatures climbed. T...

The Saskatoon Blades have been hit by COVID-19 so severely they don't have enough players to put a team on the ice. On Monday, the Western Hockey League said nine players on the team were currently on...

At 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds, Clark Gillies was a physical presence, on and off the ice. And yet … "He's the biggest (wuss) you'll ever meet," a chuckling Bob Bourne, one of Gillies' former New Yo...

The Alberta Conservation Association and the governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta are injecting nearly $1.3 million towards the research and development of a vaccine for chronic wasting disease (CW...

For the first time in more than a month, the number of active COVID-19 cases being reported in Saskatchewan has fallen. In its daily update Monday, the Ministry of Health said there were 1,449 new rec...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Monday the signings of a pair of American players. Receiver Darvin Kidsy and defensive back Will Sunderland agreed to terms with the CFL team. Kidsy signed with ...

Despite record daily case numbers and rising hospitalizations, Saskatchewan won't be implementing stricter public health measures in an attempt to curb the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. In h...