Author Archives: Keira Miller

USask developing an App for farmers to discern rates of nitrous oxide emissions
For producers who want to both save the environment and their fertilizer, an emission-measuring app is being developed at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Steve Shirtliffe says when nitrogen fertil...
Keira Miller Aug 19, 2024

Bear awareness
As people are making the most of the last weeks of summer, black bears are also out and about building their fat reserves before winter. The provincial government is advising hikers to be on the looko...
Keira Miller Aug 17, 2024

Regina's housing starts up 317 per cent since last July according to Sask. government
According to year-over-year figures from Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan ranks third among the provinces for housing starts as of July. Housing starts refers to the number of housing projects that sta...
Keira Miller Aug 16, 2024

Agriculture, mining associations join Province in urging Ottawa to prevent rail strike
A potentially economy-crippling national rail strike is looming over Canada, and the Federal Government only has seven more days to implement back-to-work legislation and avert the crisis. That's the ...
Keira Miller Aug 15, 2024

Violent crimes up in Saskatoon, property crimes down in Quarter 2 of 2024
According to a new data report from the Saskatoon Police Service, violent crime in the city was up by over 10 per cent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2024. The report and its findings were pr...
Keira Miller Aug 15, 2024

Southwest region leads Saskatchewan in harvest progress, livestock producers worry about water shortages
Hot, dry conditions have allowed farmers in several areas of the province to make progress on harvest this past week, and six per cent of crops are now in the bin, province wide. This is up from four ...
Keira Miller Aug 15, 2024

Feds invest $16 million in critical mineral processing at Saskatchewan Research Council
To ensure Canada doesn't have to send its rare earth elements overseas for processing, the Government of Canada is investing over $16 million into the Saskatchewan Research Council located in Saskatoo...
Keira Miller Aug 14, 2024

Saskatoon Police arrest 44-year-old woman on weapons charges
A Saskatoon woman is facing several weapons related charges following the report of an assault in progress. On Monday at 2:30pm, police arrived in the 300 block of 23rd Street East. Upon arrival, offi...
Keira Miller Aug 14, 2024 photo credit: Saskatoon Police Service

RCMP provide advice to farmers following numerous accounts of hay bales lit on fire
At the beginning of the week, we the Saskatoon Media Group newsroom told you about several accounts of hay bales in the Macklin area being set on fire. Unity and Wilkie RCMP report that 13 incidents t...
Keira Miller Aug 14, 2024
Prince Albert man is victim of fatal rollover in Manitoba
Two men, one from Prince Albert, have died following a fatal rollover south of Comorant, Manitoba. Yesterday at 4:20 pm, officers from The Pas RCMP responded to a report of a single-vehicle rollover o...
Keira Miller Aug 11, 2024
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