Provincial News

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — The Brooks Bandits and Battlefords North Stars will play for the Centennial Cup championship on Sunday afternoon.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Indigenous leader Bobby Cameron got up from his chair, walked to the back of the room and then returned to his seat, taking 19 seconds.

REGINA — The Quebec government is sending support to Saskatchewan to help the province tackle the wildfires. Saskatchewan expects to receive two amphibious tankers this weekend that will join their aerial tankers.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed Australian punter Adam Korsak on Friday. The six-foot, 185-pound Korsak was Saskatchewan's first pick, third overall, of the 2023 CFL global draft.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan police chief says he is retiring after a report found officers who responded to a domestic violence call didn’t check on the well-being of a toddler in the hours before the child was killed.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is promising more camping, better washrooms and other upgrades at provincial parks to address growing demand from people who want to enjoy the great outdoors. The 10-year, $121-million pledge includes 45 new yurts.

REGINA — Mounties in Saskatchewan have used forensic genealogy to identify human remains found in a field as belonging to an Alberta woman who had not been seen for more than two years.

OTTAWA — It would be against the law for Saskatchewan to run its coal-fired power plants after 2030 unless the greenhouse-gas emissions from those plants are captured, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday.

WINNIPEG — A woman whose partial remains were found last month is being remembered as a devoted mother and someone who deeply loved her children.

WINNIPEG — Six homes connected to suspected criminal activity could soon become affordable housing under a new approach by the Manitoba government to the seizure and sale of criminal assets.