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A man was rescued from a gas station roof in Saskatoon on Wednesday after it's believed he passed out from heat exposure.The 20-year-old man had been working atop the Petro-Canada on Preston Avenue So...

A video of an RCMP officer in uniform moving in time to drums at a powwow in Saskatchewan is getting a lot of attention.Const. J.P. Gauthier is from Quebec and he is on a two-year posting to the Water...

No other cases of Dutch elm disease have been found in Saskatoon since a tree in the Queen Elizabeth neighbourhood was removed after testing positive for the arboreal illness last month. Accordin...

Huge fiery explosions rocked a warehouse area in the port city of Tianjin, China on Wednesday.The warehouse was storing hazardous chemicals. Questions are being raised Thursday about whether the mater...

A gas station and a vendor selling liquor, both on Albert Street, were robbed overnight in Regina but police have arrested and charged suspects in both incidents.Two men went into the gas station in t...

RCMP in Yorkton made a pair of arrests on Tuesday after executing a search warrant. Police found marijuana, hydromorphone and weapons in a house on Victoria Avenue. Kenneth Peepeetch, 34, wa...

The PotashCorp Playland at Kinsmen Park is offering free rides and entertainment for one of the hottest days of the year. The playland has free rides from 11 a.m. till 8 p.m. on Wednesday after the gr...

"This place is dying."So reads an online review of Saskatoon's Confederation Mall, posted in 2012. This is the perception mall manager Toby Esterby is trying to change as a year-long, multi-million do...

This week Saskatchewan skies will be lit up by the annual Perseid Meteor shower, and stargazers expect this year to be one of the best showers ever."It's probably already started there's been a few me...

As Japan flipped the switch on its first nuclear reactor, the uranium industry hopes this is the first reactor of many to come back."It's very good news for the industry. It's a positive signal that t...