Scott Boulton

With the colder season on the horizon, making sure your car is ready to roll should be a top priority for drivers.

Christine Niemczyk, Director of Communications for CAA Saskatchewan, says there are plenty of considerations people should make before rolling onto winter roads.

The provincial government is announcing new funding that will help communities transition from coal, centred on the Estevan and Coronach regions.

The Saskatchewan NDP is putting out a plan that would have government contracts hire Saskatchewan workers first for any jobs the province needs to be done.

Announced earlier this month, the Sask NDP states that they "will retool the province’s existing procurement Crown, SaskBuilds, to ensure that Saskatchewan workers and businesses are put first for public contracts, like building and maintaining public infrastructure."

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank has once again received federal government funding with a grant for $100 million over the next four years.

Split into $25 million per year, that will go towards their programs which help Candian-produced food go to hungry mouths internationally.

The province's Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) has announced that they've created their first-ever commercial-scale batch of rare earth metals over the summer, which is a first for the entirety of North America.

In that announcement, the SRC stated that they had produced that metal ahead of schedule at their Rare Earth Processing Facility located in Saskatoon.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank has once again received federal government funding with a grant for $100 million over the next four years.

Split into $25 million per year, that will go towards their programs which help Candian-produced food go to hungry mouths internationally.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank has once again received federal government funding with a grant for $100 million over the next four years.

Split into $25 million per year, that will go towards their programs which help Candian-produced food go to hungry mouths internationally.

With rare earth metals likely to be an emerging industry in Saskatchewan, the province's existing industries could see benefits from a new sector opening up.

The Saskatchewan Research Council announced earlier this week that their Rare Earth Processing Facility is the first in North America to produce rare earth metals at a commercial scale.

The province has released an update for its Saskatchewan Growth Plan, which is a series of goals the provincial government has set for itself leading into 2030.

In their update, they documented some of the items that have made progress, met their goals, or have fallen behind since the plan was made back in 2020.

Estevan MLA Lori Carr says that the growth plan shows Saskatchewan is making good progress in a number of areas.

More money is going to childcare in Saskatchewan from both the provincial and federal governments in order to boost the recruiting and retaining of staff.

$8.4 million is coming from both governments in the form of early learning and child care workforce enhancement grants, with an additional $1 million adding up to a total of around $53 million to the Early Childhood Educator wage enhancement grant.

On average this change represents an extra $1 an hour increase to the ECE wage enhancement grant maximums for all certification levels.