Saskatchewan News

Lauded Canadian author Yann Martel will release his highly anticipated follow-up to "Life of Pi" in the spring.

Members of the Regina Police Service were on the 1300 block of Montague Street Sunday morning to investigate a police shooting that occurred shortly after midnight.

Saskatoon city councillor Bob Pringle will head a comprehensive review of child welfare in the province Photograph by: Richard Marjan, The StarPhoenix The Saskatchewan government announced Monday it is launching a comprehensive review of child welfare in the province.

Growing up in north Saskatchewan for Tammy Cook-Searson meant spending every winter working on the family's trapline, from November right through spring, living in a log cabin with a wood stove to keep warm, and taking the beaver and muskrat, the fox and lynx, from the land.

The parents of Master Cpl. Jeffrey Walsh, killed in an accidental shooting in Afghanistan in 2006, will receive the Sacrifice Medal on his behalf at an Ottawa ceremony on Monday.

The North Dakota State Patrol says 32-year-old Scott Gulsvig of Moorhead was driving south on I-29 about 7 p.m. and hit the moose.

Saskatchewan Order , Saskatchewan Publishers Group , Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre , Moose Jaw , Saskatoon , Saskatchewan Two people with connections to the Moose Jaw area have been invested with the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in Saskatoon.

The case was argued last December before seven Supreme Court of Canada justices.

A private funeral for a soldier who strongly supported Canada's role in Afghanistan is to be held Saturday in his hometown of Saskatoon.

Lloydminster MLA Tim McMillan has launched a private member's bill to protect the wild horses that live in the Bronson Forest north of Paradise Hill.

SASKATOON a ' Following a brief hearing in Saskatoon Friday, the executive committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan concluded Yorkton radiologist Dr.

A provincial court judge found a 45-year-old Saskatoon man guilty of three child pornography-related charges Thursday.

MPs voted on Wednesday to repeal the federal long-gun registry. A private membera TMs bill passed by 164-137, winning more supporters than expected as 12 New Democrats, eight Liberals and one Independent cast their votes with the government.

SHELL LAKE, Sask. a ' Two people are dead in central Saskatchewan after a truck rolled over into a pond.

EDMONTON a ' The military funeral for an Edmonton-based soldier killed in Afghanistan last month has been scheduled for Saturday in Saskatoon.

New reason to visit British Columbia? People from Saskatchewan may soon be coming to British Columbia for surgery, if negotiations between the two provincial governments are successful.

Manitoba Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner took political hits from all three opposition parties Monday morning during opening debate on her bill to get rid of the national gun registry.

REGINA a ' The Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert is closed to visitors after one of its inmates tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus and a number of others were experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.

Businesses are working to keep pace with the fast-changing developments surrounding the H1N1 virus by crafting or fine-tuning their pandemic preparedness plans.

A verdict of not guilty has been returned in the case of a man accused of murdering a Saskatchewan construction worker employed in the Cayman Islands.