Saskatchewan News

REGINA — Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen, Alberta's Brendan Bottcher and Manitoba's Reid Carruthers emerged from the Canadian men's curling championship's opening weekend as front-runners.

SASKATOON — Heavy snows and wintry winds grounded flights and closed highways across the prairies over the weekend, prompting the mayor of one major city to ask anyone without a vehicle equipped with four-wheel drive to stay home.

REGINA — Alex Smith is back in the Canadian men's curling championship 35 years after his last appearance in Saskatoon in 1989.

REGINA — Howard fists pumped in triumph on the ice and on the bench at the Canadian men's curling championship Saturday when Ontario's Scott Howard threw a walk-off double takeout for the first Brier win of his career as a skip.

SASKATOON — Brayden Edwards scored two goals in the second period as the Lethbridge Hurricanes pulled away from the Saskatoon Blades to record a 4-1 Western Hockey League road victory on Friday at SaskTel Centre.

REGINA — Host Saskatchewan eked out a tense win and defending champion Brad Gushue won a game that included an unpleasant interaction with a spectator to open the Canadian men's curling championship Friday.

REGINA — Brad Gushue was cruising at the 2018 Canadian men's curling championship in Regina. After winning a first Brier in storybook fashion in his hometown of St. John's N.L.

SASKATOON — Community members hugged the mother of a mass killer after jurors at a Saskatchewan coroner's inquest determined he died from an accidental overdose following a high-speed police pursuit.

Saskatchewan's move to no longer remit the federal carbon levy on natural gas turned into a tit-for-tat of threats Thursday, with Ottawa saying the province's residents will no longer be getting rebates.

REGINA — A man who ran over and killed an RCMP officer in Saskatchewan was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday in a decision both prosecutors and police say sends a message to future would-be offenders.