Category Archives: Provincial News
Mid-year financial update shows Saskatchewan moving from surplus to $427 million deficit
REGINA - Saskatchewan's mid-year financial report is projecting a $427 million deficit, a swing of $79 million deeper than the first-quarter forecast and a significant reversal from the $12 million su...
Nov 25, 2025
Former Kamsack resident appointed to Supreme Court of British Columbia
KAMSACK - A former Kamsack resident has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Kelowna. Hon. Gregory W. Koturbash, a judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia in Pe...
Nov 23, 2025
Country Thunder Saskatchewan unveils 2026 lineup featuring Lainey Wilson, Creed and Riley Green
Country Thunder Saskatchewan is set to return to Craven Valley next summer with a heavyweight mix of country stars, rock icons and new festival additions. The festival announced its 2026 dates, runnin...
Nov 20, 2025 Lainey Wilson pictured performing at the 2024 North Dakota State Fair is one of the headliners for the 2026 edition of Country Thunder.
NDP launches health-care consultations in Yorkton with focus on long-delayed hospital project
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck and a handful of her fellow MLAs opened a new round of provincial health-care consultations in Yorkton on Thursday night, using the first town hall of the series to ...
Nov 20, 2025 Sask. NDP Leader Carla Beck (left), MLA for Regina Elphinstone-Centre and Shadow Minister for Health Meara Conway (centre) and MLA for Regina Walsh Acres and Shadow Minister for Rural & Remote Health Jarred Clarke (right) field questions from Yorkton residents at their town hall meeting. (Photo: Tanner Wallace-Scribner)
Province adds funds for homeless programming but will they reach Yorkton?
YORKTON - The provincial government has announced an additional $20 million over three years targeted at addressing homelessness. The money will be added to the Provincial Approach to Homelessness (PA...
Nov 20, 2025
Moe urges renewed Canada-U.S. trade talks after D.C. trip
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe is back in Saskatchewan after his latest meetings on tariffs in Washington, D.C., the past couple of days. Moe met with government and elected officials during his latest me...
Nov 19, 2025
Holiday Smile Cookie campaign returns with funds supporting local groups
YORKTON - Tim Hortons' Holiday Smile Cookie campaign is underway again, with restaurants across the region raising money for local charities, community programs and Tim Hortons Foundation Camps throug...
Nov 19, 2025 Last year, Tims guests helped raise $10.7 million through the Holiday Smile Cookie campaign and $20.5 million since the campaign launched in 2023. (Photo by Ryan Kiedrowski)
Talks underway on extending $10 a day childcare
REGINA --There has finally been some movement on the issue of an extension to $10 a day child care in Saskatchewan. Education Minister Everett Hindley confirmed to reporters last week that talks with ...
Nov 18, 2025
Province commits funding to support Yorkton RCMP positions
The provincial government is allocating new funding to policing in Yorkton. The government is committing $357,000 in 2025-26 through the Municipal Police Grants program to help fund three RCMP positio...
Nov 14, 2025
Access Communications expanding high-speed internet to 34 Saskatchewan communities
REGINA - Dozens of Saskatchewan communities, including several in the province's east-central region, will soon have access to high-speed internet as Access Communications Co-operative continues its p...
Nov 14, 2025 Photo: Access Communications
