Saskatchewan News

REGINA — Saskatchewan has issued a fire ban for provincial lands, parks and the northern administrative district due to hot and dry conditions.

CALGARY — The Canada Growth Fund is partnering with Strathcona Resources Ltd. on a carbon capture and sequestration project, with each group contributing up to $1 billion in funding.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government has put a moratorium on new wild boar farms, after decades of expanding feral swine populations. The province also says existing farms will require licensing and regular inspection.

TORONTO — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl drenched Ontario in heavy rain and was moving into Quebec as Environment Canada warned of possible "torrential" downpours lasting into Thursday.

Heavy rainfall is expected in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec as Environment Canada warns remnants of Hurricane Beryl could cause downpours starting late Tuesday or Wednesday.

Sweltering temperatures stretching from British Columbia to the Ontario border has prompted hundreds of heat warnings, but it's not as intense at the deadly 2021 heat dome in B.C., says a national warning preparedness meteorologist.

EDMONTON — Above-normal temperatures affecting much of Western Canada are expected to spread into Manitoba later in the week.

BATTLEFORD, SASKATCHEWAN — RCMP say two separate crashes within a few hours of each other on highways in northwest Saskatchewan have claimed the lives of two women and three young children.

Remi Laboucane says memories of being bullied were finally fading, memories so awful he switched schools.

REGINA — For the first time since 2013, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are 4-0 to start a CFL season. The Roughriders extended their win streak under new head coach Corey Mace with a 30-23 victory over the Toronto Argonauts on Thursday.