Saskatoon News

The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation unit has completed its first big operation since its inception, travelling across Saskatchewan this week arresting five people in five communities.

The Canadian economy gained a more-than-expected 79,000 jobs in November, with the unemployment rate easing 0.1 percentage points to 8.5 per cent, Statistics Canada reported Friday.

A Saskatoon man who admitted sexually abusing his own daughter during her childhood will not have to spend any time behind bars for it, a Queen's Bench judge ruled this week.

Five people in five Saskatchewan communities have been arrested and charged in the wake of a province-wide child exploitation investigation.

Proposed new tobacco control legislation will ban people from smoking in vehicles carrying kids under 16 and prohibit cigarette sales in pharmacies.

The woman charged in connection with a fatal Saskatoon stabbing in October made her first court appearance on Wednesday Photograph by: Greg Pender, The StarPhoenix file photo The woman charged in connection with a fatal Saskatoon stabbing in October made her first court appearance on Wednesday.

More than one-third of Saskatoon's record $318 million in capital spending next year will be poured into the start of the Circle Drive South project, says the city's preliminary capital budget released Tuesday.

The new Art Gallery of Saskatchewan is being promoted as part of destination centre for the River Landing development.

The Opposition NDP are accusing the Saskatchewan Party government of delaying tough decisions on a new education formula for the province until after the next provincial election.

A promise to boost funding for municipalities in next year's provincial budget may be sacrificed to the Saskatchewan Party government's current financial predicament.

Monira was the daughter of rickshaw puller in Bangladesh, but at 12 she was blinded and scarred from an acid attack by an angry "suitor." The girl's parents had been under pressure to marry her off to a young man.

United Cabs lobbied the provincial Highway Traffic Board on Tuesday to relax rules governing the cab company's fleet of luxury vehicles - the "black cabs" that rival companies allege are currently illegal Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The StarPhoenix United Cabs lobbied the provincial Highway Traffic Board on Tuesday for relaxed rules governing the ...

The province won't make any financial commitment to build joint public and Catholic schools in the Willowgrove neighbourhood until at least March, two cabinet ministers say.

As mass public H1N1 immunizations begin in Saskatoon this afternoon, the Saskatoon Health Region is asking people to take their time -- the clinics will be open until mid-December. "I would encourage them not to camp out," says Karen Grauer, manager of disease control for public health.

A city like Regina boasts many of the advantages of larger cities, without some of the disadvantages.

Opposition critics are taking aim at what they say are out-of-touch, ideologically driven Conservative MPs, citing recent comments on the unemployed and abortion emerging from government ranks.

A weekend fire that destroyed Taylor Concrete and Pumping just outside city limits on Eighth Street East caused more than $1 million in damage and has left 30 people out of work.

The implementation of the FINEOS claims system will help WCB reduce the number of supported technologies, as well as positioning WCB's technology infrastructure to improve the electronic exchange of information with employers, care-givers and other third parties.

An early-morning three-vehicle crash at Laurier Drive and Diefenbaker Drive Friday closed the intersection.

Santa Claus is coming to Saskatoon on Sunday. The 19th annual Saskatoon Santa Claus Parade will begin Sunday at 1 p.m. and will travel through the downtown streets for about an hour, before stopping at Midtown Plaza where Santa resides until Dec.