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Protecting pigs from disease
The Manager of the Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network said strengthened biosecurity is needed to protect the North American swine herd from the threat posed by foreign animal diseases.Netwo...
May 13, 2019 (file photo/CKOM Staff)
Man allegedly removes, burns Nazi flag hung in Kelliher
A Nazi flag flying on top of a home in Kelliher, Sask. was allegedly removed and lit on fire, according to a Facebook post early Saturday morning.The flag, which was accompanied by a Confederate flag,...
May 12, 2019 A Nazi flag hung at a home in Kelliher, Sask., shown here, is lit on fire in a Facebook video posted on May 10, 2019. (Caleb Beaudin/Facebook)
SaskPower at least 10 years from having week without coal
Don't expect SaskPower to match the United Kingdom's recent coal-less week anytime soon.England, Scotland and Wales didn't draw any electrical power from coal-generated energy between May 1 and May 8,...
May 11, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)
Nation posts strongest job gains since 1976, little change regionally
A welcome surprise came in Canada's latest job numbers, with the nation posting the strongest surge in employment since the government started tracking the data in 1976.The monthly labour force survey...
May 10, 2019 (file photo/The Canadian Press)
APAS applauds updated trespass legislation
The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) is pleased with the passage of new provincial civil trespass legislation.APAS President Todd Lewis said producers have been facing growing...
May 10, 2019 (file photo farmnewsNOW Staff)
Look up and live, a safety reminder
SaskPower is reminding farmers to take their time and be aware of overhead power lines while crossing fields and farm yards this spring.SaskPower spokeperson Jordan Jackle said there has been an incre...
May 10, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)
Large disparity between rural, urban and northern, southern crime: StatsCan
New data from Statistics Canada shows a large disparity between rural and urban crime rates in the province, and a much greater differential when comparing the North to the South. Released Tuesday by ...
May 09, 2019 (file photo/CKOM Staff)
FSIN says trespass legislation ‘not First Nations-friendly’
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is preparing to launch a legal challenge against the provincial government's trespassing law."It's unconstitutional, it's not First Nations-friend...
May 09, 2019 Chief Bobby Cameron says the FSIN will challenge the province's trespassing law in court. (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Division 1 farmer ready to follow in father's footsteps
One of three candidates running for reeve in the upcoming Rural Municipality of Prince Albert byelection, has politics in his blood.Doug Phelps, the son of former longtime Reeve Charlie Phelps, told p...
May 09, 2019 Doug Phelps. (submitted photo/ Karen Phelps)
Canada's agriculture minister talks trade in Japan
Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau leaves for Japan today to attend the G20 Agriculture Ministers' Meeting in Niigata. Finding new markets for Canadian canola will be on the table.Bibeau...
May 09, 2019 Marie-Claude Bibeau. (Twitter/@mclaudebibeau)