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Premier Scott Moe to meet with Justin Trudeau on Tuesday
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe will get his meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Moe tweeted Sunday afternoon that he will sit down with Trudeau in Ottawa on Tuesday to discuss a variety of topi...
Nov 10, 2019 Premier Scott Moe speaks to the media before the 2019 throne speech on Oct. 23, 2019. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Warman man brings home black widow spider after grocery shopping trip
Calvin Bruneau arrived home from a grocery shopping trip with a little more than he asked for last week.Bruneau emptied his groceries to find a black widow spider at his Warman house after shopping at...
Nov 09, 2019 A photo of the eight-legged critter that Calvin Bruneau discovered after a grocery shopping trip. (Amanda Bruneau/Facebook)
Winter conditions plague Saskatchewan highways
A combination of rain, snow and wind made for treacherous driving conditions on Saturday morning."Wet, subject to freezing and icy and slippery (conditions) is pretty much blanketing the province," Hi...
Nov 09, 2019 Conditions on Highway 10 near Avonhurst on Nov. 9, 2019. (Highway Hotline)
SARM convention to highlight carbon tax, AgriRecovery
The difficult harvest will be on the minds of councillors when they meet in Regina for the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) mid-term convention.SARM President Ray Orb said farme...
Nov 08, 2019 (Twitter/@SARM_Voice)
Region sees slight uptick in jobs
There's slightly better news on the job scene for the Prince Albert and North region - which includes The Battlefords and Melfort - as well as signs of continued improvement on the provincial front.Ac...
Nov 08, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Council hopeful pork shipments will resume quickly
The Canadian pork industry is looking at the potential for a billion dollar market as China lifts import ban.Alice McFarlane with Ag Access talks to Rick Bergmann with Canada Pork.alice.mcfarlane@jpbg...
Nov 08, 2019 ID 85975130 © Msmartchief Dreamstime.com
Agriculture Roundup for Friday November 8, 2019
A new app connecting rural landowners to recreational users, like hunters and snowmobilers, is now in the testing phase.The SaskLander pilot project is being tested in the RM of Shellbrook.Landowners ...
Nov 08, 2019 ID 18946704 © Knapjames Dreamstime.com
Sask. donors raise $750,000 in children's hospital radiothon
Broadcasters from across Saskatchewan, including the full team from the family of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, helped raise a substantial sum of money for the new state-of-the-art children's faci...
Nov 07, 2019 On-air personalities of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group across the province lent their voices to the cause at the new Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in Saskatoon. (Teena Monteleone/paNOW Staff)
App being developed to help alleviate trespassing issue
A web application that will connect people seeking access to private land with the owners of the property is getting closer to reality.In March, Premier Scott Moe announced at the Saskatchewan Associa...
Nov 07, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)
Millions of acres unharvested
It's estimated three-and-a-half million acres of crop is still in the field.Every region has crop in the field, but the largest percentage is in east-central and southeast.The Ministry of Agriculture ...
Nov 07, 2019 (Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)