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Hot and dry weather prior to this week allowed Saskatchewan farmers to make great progress on seeding. The latest weekly crop report shows 35 per cent of the provincial crop is now in the ground. "Tha...

Cameco reassured nervous investors Wednesday morning after deep cuts in Saskatchewan last month. "We had anticipated things would get better sooner," said Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel in the annual general m...

The Fort McMurray wildfire has hit right at the foot of Canada's oilsands. CJME business analyst Paul Martin believes the wildfires will have an impact on oil production in the area. "It produces abou...

More and more people are hunting for a job in Saskatchewan, and the unemployment rate hasn't been this high in almost 17 years. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate in Canada stayed s...

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX;POT) cut its earnings guidance for the year as it reported Thursday a sharp drop in its profit for its latest quarter. The company said it was hurt by weaker pri...

The provincial budget isn't out for several more weeks, but already it doesn't look good. Premier Brad Wall confirms that the deficit is bigger than the $427 million forecast at third-quarter. "The bu...

Despite an economy that some consider grounded, the CEO of the Regina Airport seems to be optimistic things will take off in the future. Speaking at the airport's annual general meeting, Dick Graham o...

Sales of petroleum and natural gas drilling rights are the latest sign of the impact of low oil prices on the Saskatchewan oil patch. The April sales raised $3.1 million for the province, down from $5...

The price of oil is up and so is the value of the loonie, but could that be a sign of better things to come? On Monday the price of oil closed up by 63 cents at 40.37 cents US a barrel, while the Cana...

Jackie Wall wishes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have visited her southeast city a couple of years ago before the impact of the huge oil industry slowdown. "He didn't see that every hotel was fi...