New award introduced by Saskatoon-based mining group

New award introduced by Saskatoon-based mining group

Photo courtesy of imii.ca A Saskatoon-based mining group is introducing a new award for innovation. The International Minerals Innovation Institute announced its innovation award earlier this week. The award is also known as the “Best Prototype Award.” It...
Premier Brad Wall delivers his final speech in legislature

Premier Brad Wall delivers his final speech in legislature

It was a day of tributes, some sadness and a little humor as Brad Wall made his last speech in the assembly. He says representing the people of Swift Current for the past 18 years has been the best job of his life. He says he will miss the job and miss the people, but...
Don Campbell takes volleyball skills to northern Alberta

Don Campbell takes volleyball skills to northern Alberta

Don Campbell. Photo courtesy of keyano.ca Don Campbell of La Plonge First Nation has taken his volleyball talents to northern Alberta. Campbell is currently in his first year with the Keyano College Huskies in the ACAC. Campbell was supposed to play last season with...
NDP grills province over Quill Lakes diversion project

NDP grills province over Quill Lakes diversion project

The NDP opposition is grilling the provincial government over the Quill Lakes water diversion project. The project would see seven million cubic metres of water diverted from the area of Quill Lakes, down into Last Mountain Lake. The project was designed to ease the...
Meadow Lake RCMP searching for 22-year-old man

Meadow Lake RCMP searching for 22-year-old man

File photo Meadow Lake RCMP are looking to the public for information on the whereabouts of 22-year-old Austin Cole Lafond. Police say Lafond is wanted on several charges, including two counts of flight from police and three counts of dangerous operation of a motor...
Youth suicide crisis in the north addressed in special report

Youth suicide crisis in the north addressed in special report

Corey O’Soup speaking to media in La Ronge. Photo courtesy of Braden Malsbury. The province’s children’s advocate uses the thoughts and feelings of youth in the north to lay out a blueprint to deal with the Indigenous youth suicide crisis. Corey O’Soup unveiled his...