Tag Archives: Saskatchewan

Minimum wage earners in the province received a boost of 22 cents more an hour this weekend. On Oct. 1, the hourly wage went up for workers to $10.72 from $10.50. While most workers who spoke with 650...

A convicted murderer is on the loose after escaping from Saskatchewan Penitentiary near Prince Albert.   Roger Joseph Gillet was discovered to be missing by prison staff at the 10 a.m. count Frid...

A La Ronge man has been charged after an early morning Amber Alert in Saskatchewan. Jarrod Charles, 18, is facing two counts of abduction of person under 14 and two counts of breach of undertaking. RC...

Sask. RCMP have recaptured a 26-year-old man who escaped custody earlier this week. Michael Montgrand got away during a hearing at Turnor Lake Provincial Court on Wednesday. Turnor Lake is just e...

Fears rural Saskatchewan is becoming a lawless wasteland where farmers are arming themselves in droves are exaggerated, according to a farmer near Kindersley. The man, Bryce, asked not to ha...

A group of Saskatchewan doctors have called for the province's high rates of HIV to be declared a public health emergency. Thirty physicians, who treat people living with HIV in the province, released...

Canada's best-known environmental activist visited Saskatoon on Sunday. David Suzuki was the headline author at the sixth annual Word on the Street book and magazine festival. "I wanted to talk to the...

Saskatchewan has seen a spike in reported cases of rabies this year - and now we're learning about an incident involving a human. A person was bitten by a rabid bat in Blaine Lake last week....

A man has been seriously injured in a structure fire at Montreal Lake Cree Nation. RCMP said the call came in at around 4:30 a.m Friday. When members arrived, they found a house trailer fully engulfed...

While Vancouver Island, B.C. might have been Jim Jeffery's address for decades, it was never really home. That's why his family arranged one last journey for him back to Saskatchewan where he was born...