Category Archives: Provincial News
NDP accuses Sask Party of stacking the SHA with their loyalists
REGINA - Opposition New Democrats are back to accusing the Sask Party government of cronyism with board appointments at the Saskatchewan Health Authority. NDP Health Critic Meara Conway accused the go...
Sep 26, 2025
Motion for Provincial Auditor special investigation goes down at Public Accounts
REGINA - As expected, an NDP motion at committee calling for a special investigation by the Provincial Auditor into the water bomber purchase did not get very far. A motion by Saskatoon Silverspring M...
Sep 22, 2025
NDP to ask for probe into alleged overspending on Saskatchewan firefighting planes
Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP says it's asking the provincial auditor to investigate what it calls government mismanagement over wildfires that saw planes grounded, alleged overspending and a scorched...
Sep 19, 2025 Volunteer firefighters from Davidson, Sask., load up their truck at the Provincial Wildfire Center in Prince Albert, Sask., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
Kaeding off to southeast Asia on latest trade mission
REGINA - On the heels of his recent trade mission to South Korea and Japan, Trade and Export Development Minister Warren Kaeding is now headed to southeast Asia. In a news release Friday it was confir...
Sep 19, 2025 Warren Kaeding is heading to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand on his latest trade mission. (Photo by Jon Perez)
Province considering allowing tailgating events at Riders games
REGINA - The provincial government says they are "actively exploring" a request by the Saskatchewan Roughriders to introduce tailgating at Mosaic Stadium on game days starting next season. The governm...
Sep 17, 2025
RCMP investigate fatal rollover near Wapella
One man is dead following a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 1 near Wapella. Broadview and Moosomin RCMP say they were called to the crash around 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 16. Local fire and EMS crews also...
Sep 17, 2025 An RCMP epaulette is seen in Edmonton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Three charged after theft investigation near Esterhazy
RCMP have laid charges against three people following a string of thefts from businesses and rural properties near Esterhazy. Mounties say they first received a report of stolen metal gates from a rur...
Sep 17, 2025
SaskEnergy launches furnace replacement program for low-income households
SaskEnergy is rolling out a new program aimed at helping low-income homeowners cut down on heating costs. The Crown corporation has launched the Heating Affordability Program (HAP), which will provide...
Sep 16, 2025 The SaskEnergy HQ in Regina, taken 2019. Devan C. Tasa / Humboldt Journal
Inflation ticks higher to 1.9% in August, short of economists' expectations
Some stubbornness at the gas pumps pushed the headline inflation rate a couple ticks higher to 1.9 per cent in August, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. Gasoline prices rose 1.4 per cent month-over-mont...
Sep 16, 2025 Statistics Canada building and signs are pictured in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Moe heads to Ottawa following China trip
SASKATOON - Premier Scott Moe is headed east to Ottawa this week after spending last week in the Far East in China and Japan. Moe returned home Saturday following his delegation to China on the tariff...
Sep 15, 2025
