It was a week of high emotion and low comedy at the provincial legislature.

Wet conditions continue to slow harvest, with 80 per cent of the 2009 crop in the bin, up one per cent since last week, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture's weekly crop report.

Few electoral battles were fought in RMs surrounding Saskatoon in Wednesday's rural government elections.

The Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert is likely to be locked down for the rest of the weekend after officials ordered a search of the facility on Friday.

Following a brief hearing in Saskatoon Friday, the executive committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan concluded Yorkton radiologist Dr. Darius Tsatsi "lacks skill and knowledge," clearing the way for a future decision about what action the college will take in his case.

The Olympic torch will arrive in Saskatchewan today, where it will make its first stop in La Ronge.

Last year at Aden Bowman Collegiate, 41 kids were in one Grade 10 history class.

Emotions conjured up by politics are as particular as each of us. For me, there's humour, amusement, frustration and sometimes even anger. And I'm inspired when someone bravely does the right thing for the right reason and gets rewarded.

The Saskatchewan Party government appears to have even stronger support at the midway mark of its term than it did on election night two years ago, says a Sigma Analytics survey conducted for The Leader-Post.

A tiny population of small wild horses in northwest Saskatchewan is under threat and needs protection before it's too late, a Saskatchewan Party MLA says.

Kindergarten to Grade 6 students attending community schools in Saskatoon and select schools in rural communities will be lining up for the H1N1 vaccine next week.

So the civic election is over for another three years and only 27 per cent of eligible voters exercised their franchise.

In the upcoming 2012, director Roland Emmerich returns to familiar ground: The end of the world. This isn't the first time the German-born filmmaker has pulverized the planet. He did it with Independence Day and again with The Day After Tomorrow. This time, he's seized on the Mayan calendar and growing publ

More than 100 businesses in Saskatoon and Regina -- including a number of provincial Crown corporations -- have hired a private company to vaccinate employees and their families for the H1N1 virus.

More than 1,500 people received H1N1 vaccinations Tuesday in Saskatoon, the first day of a massive public clinic at Prairieland Park.

The company behind a $150-million metallurgical processing facility to be built between Langham and Saskatoon said the province's interest in attracting the plant tipped the scales in the region's favour.

After a faltering start to Canada's mass immunization program, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq admitted Sunday she's been disappointed by production problems with this country's H1N1 vaccine.