provincial news

REGINA – The new and returning members of the Saskatchewan Legislature were officially sworn into office Thursday. The new Legislature includes 34 Saskatchewan Party MLAs and 27 New Democrats. The expanded NDP caucus, which includes 15 new caucus members, was sworn in Thursday afternoon and took their seats inside the Legislative Assembly chamber, with friends […]

Delegates voted on 21 resolutions during the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) Mid-Term Convention in Saskatoon on Wednesday. They were a mix of how SARM conducts business at its conventions to lobbying the provincial and federal governments on a variety of issues. For example, the R.M. of Elfros No. 307 introduced three resolutions related […]

CARLYLE — Construction of the new Bekevar Wind Energy Facility north of Moose Mountain Provincial Park is complete, says SaskPower in a news release Friday morning. Owned and operated by Bekevar Wind LP, a limited partnership between Innagreen Investments and Awasis Nehiyawewini Energy Development Limited Partnership, a wholly-owned Cowesses First Nation entity, the wind facility […]

REGINA – Opposition Leader Carla Beck has announced the NDP shadow cabinet and all their MLAs will have a critic role. The entire expanded caucus of 27 NDP MLAs will be in the shadow cabinet, facing the 16 Sask Party cabinet ministers. In addition to being the Opposition Leader, Beck will take on Agriculture and […]

ESTEVAN – SaskPower’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at the Boundary Dam Power Station Unit 3 near Estevan continues its strong performance as the facility has eclipsed 10 years of operation, the Crown corporation said in a news release Wednesday. According to SaskPower, as of Sept. 30, 2024, the CCS facility had captured 6,434,234 […]

SASKATOON — Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association President Shantel Lipp said the organization is ready to co-operate again with Dave Marit, who will be returning to his previous role leading the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure. Marit, who overwhelmingly won re-election to represent Wood River in the Legislature, was appointed the Minister of Highways by Premier […]

Seventeen community groups and First Nations in Saskatchewan have received funds through Farm Credit Canada’s AgriSpirit Fund. This year, $1.5 million was available to communities across Canada with $254,500 distributed to the 17 projects across the province. Carla Warnyca, the Manager of Community Investment with FCC, says the AgriSpirit Fund is designed to help rural […]

A new face is taking on the role of Provincial Agriculture Minister. Premier Scott Moe unveiled his new Cabinet Thursday morning that included Daryl Harrison taking over the Agriculture file from David Marit, who had been in the role since 2018. Marit becomes the Minister of Highways – a position he previously held before moving […]

October was a warm and dry month, according to monthly weather statistics from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). Danielle Desjardins, a Meteorologist at the national weather office, says most weather stations in Saskatchewan reported temperatures one to three degrees above normal compared to previous October’s. Key Lake was the only spot to record its […]

REGINA – The Government of Saskatchewan’s Crown latest oil and natural gas public offering, held on Oct. 29, raised $7,304,936 for the province, with the southeast region generating the majority of the revenue. Of the 112 parcels posted for this offering, 93 received acceptable bids, covering a total of 15,347.639 hectares. The southeast brought in […]