Saskatchewan News
TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Ondrej Kase to a one-year contract worth US$1.25 million.
The 25-year-old Kase became available when free agency officially opened Wednesday after the Boston Bruins declined issuing him a qualifying offer as a restricted free agent.
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced the final roster Friday afternoon, ahead of next week’s season opener.
Dr. Brian Conway, medical director of Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre, said an endemic infection is one that still needs to be dealt with on an ongoing basis.
WATCH: Officials are starting to describe COVID-19 as becoming endemic, a word many may be unfamiliar with and wonder what it means for the future of the virus. Kelly Skjerven reports.
A nurses' union representative says the Government of Saskatchewan's decision to end the practice of distilling and releasing COVID-19 data on a daily basis could create barriers for a public looking to stay informed about the risk posed by the coronavirus.
The 2021 edition of the Saskatchewan Roughriders has now been revealed.
The green and white announced its final cuts Friday after CFL training camp ended the day before. It included the release of 18 players, 15 moved to the practice roster and two returning to school.
Former first-round NFL pick... Read more
Simon Grant died in hospital of blunt force trauma after he was attacked with a baseball bat at Louisiana's Bar-B-Que Restaurant in La Ronge in 2017.
OTTAWA -- The federal government has reached a nearly $8-billion settlement with First Nations who launched a class-action lawsuit over the lack of clean, safe drinking water in their communities.... Read more
An Indigenous-focused chamber of commerce says geography, connectivity and COVID-19 are affecting of Indigenous-owned businesses are recovering from the pandemic.
The SHA says people may have been exposed to COVID-19 at two locations in Swift Curent, Sask., on separate days last week.
The chair of an Indigenous-focused chamber of commerce says geography, connectivity, and COVID-19 are affecting how Indigenous-owned businesses are recovering from the pandemic.
Anyone who attended the Swift Current Rodeo and Cabaret on July 23 or Railway North Social House on July 24 may have been exposed to COVID-19, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
After more than a year of tight COVID-19 restrictions, the staff at Harbour Landing Village wanted to bring some fun to the facility.
A Saskatoon woman named in a civil suit has filed her statement of defence, saying posts and comments alleging inappropriate conduct at a 2016 video shoot were published "in good faith, and without malice."... Read more
A 21-year-old man will continue serving an adult sentence for killing a La Ronge restaurant owner when he was 17 after the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal to replace the adult sentence with a rehabilitative youth sentence.... Read more
Orders and tickets remain a last-ditch option to deal with people infected with COVID-19 who brazenly spurn self-isolation, but no one has made use of those tools since other enforcement measures expired.... Read more
Fresh lobster and mussels from flown in from Prince Edward Island, along with locally sourced striploin steaks, were served to attendees at the 20th annual Lobsterfest in Yorkton.
Saskatchewan doesn't plan to give COVID-19 vaccines to children until their 12th birthdays, despite calls from the provincial opposition to inoculate more tweens before the school year begins.... Read more
A man who plead guilty to beating a La Ronge business owner to death has had his sentence reduced by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.
The man, who was 17 at the time and can not be named because he was charged as a youth,... Read more
TORONTO — A sea of blue jerseys and T-shirts welcomed the Toronto Blue Jays back to the Rogers Centre on Friday as fans flocked to see the team play at home for the first time in nearly two years.
The crowd that lined up outside the stadium was abuzz with excitement, with many saying the Jays'... Read more
For many growing up, it was their favourite activity during gym class. Now, there is a push from a group to take it to an elite level, possibly even to a professional level down the road.
If all goes as planned, the YWCA's anticipated Centre for Women and Families should be in a position to break ground in the late fall, according to the organization's CEO.... Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s coronavirus cases jumped 50% this week, the state Health Department reported Friday, continuing a six-week surge that has seen it responsible for 1 in 5 new infections nationally, becoming the outbreak's epicenter.
The release came shortly... Read more
For many growing up, it was their favourite activity during gym class. Now, there is a push from a group to take it to an elite level.
There are 46 people in hospital, 12 of whom are in intensive care.
Many people across Saskatchewan got their first COVID shot weeks, if not months ago.
But some people took a while to make up their minds.
Larissa, a Regina woman who wasn’t comfortable sharing her last name, rolled up her sleeve at the pop-up vaccine clinic at Buffalo Meadows Pool Friday.
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The Saskatchewan Health Authority is warning that COVID-19 activity is on the rise in Lloydminster.
The men’s 100-metre competition gets underway at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo later today, a competition with a lasting legacy for all Canadians.
Atlanta 1996. Donovan Bailey. 9.84.
While that dramatic event celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this month, for Bailey, the outcome was never in... Read more
A dedication to Prairie pioneers at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum is at the centre of talks about whether it "whitewashes" the contributions of Indigenous people.... Read more
The Kenosee Superslides will be closed for the rest of the summer after health authorities decided against granting the waterpark an operating license.
A viewer-submitted photo is featured daily in Your Saskatchewan on Global Saskatoon and Global Regina.
Both 2-1-1 Saskatchewan and SaskWell are proud to announce their new partnership, allowing both parties to use each others resources to help the people of Saskatchewan.
Saskatoon police have issued a ticket for driving without due care and attention after a vehicle hit one of the walls of McNally Robinson Booksellers on Eighth Street Friday morning.... Read more
EDMONTON — Friday was the deadline for a public inquiry into what the Alberta government says is foreign funding of environmental groups who want to curtail energy development — an investigation lauded by Premier Jason Kenney as principled but derided by critics as a buffoonishly sinister political... Read more
Saskatchewan's minister of Mental Health and Addictions says he can't make any promises about whether the government will publicly release a dashboard it has developed to track... Read more
The northern half of Saskatchewan is adding new COVID-19 cases at a pace nearly 33 times the rate in Canada as a whole.... Read more
VANCOUVER — British Columbia is gearing up to respond to another heat wave by taking several steps including opening civic centres that would otherwise be closed so people can escape to a cool place if they lack air conditioning.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says social media updates will... Read more
A Saskatoon woman aims to break a culture of silence by legally defending her social media posts that outlined the harm she allegedly experienced while working on a video shoot in Saskatoon.
The Conservation Officer Service is asking for help locating those who illegally blocked a creek in northern Saskatchewan.
Both 2-1-1 Saskatchewan and SaskWell are proud to announce their new partnership, allowing both parties to use each others resources to help the people of Saskatchewan.