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SaskPower and First Nations Centre of Excellence sign MOU to advance Indigenous participation in power sector
Confirming their promise to work together, SaskPower and the Saskatchewan First Nations Resource Centre of Excellence signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Thursday, to find additional opportunit...
Lisa Denby May 31, 2025

SaskPower launches annual wood pole maintenance program
As part of SaskPower’s annual maintenance program, crews will be inspecting almost 120,000 wood power poles between May and October throughout the province. Testing of approximately 10,000 overh...
Lisa Denby May 18, 2025

Saskatchewan government focuses on buying local when it comes to steel
The Saskatchewan government says it is prioritizing the purchase of local steel for SaskPower and SaskEnergy infrastructure projects. In a news release the province says SaskPower has negotiated a pur...
Vanese M. Ferguson Mar 18, 2025

Climate change court case in limbo
A group of Saskatchewan citizens and an environmental non-profit are waiting to hear whether their climate change court case will continue or not. They believe the provincial government and SaskPower ...
Carol Thomson Feb 18, 2025

Weather that led to Alberta tornado wreaks nine hours of havoc in Saskatchewan
Stephen Berg, meteorologist with Environment Canada says the weather system that spawned a tornado in Alberta on Canada Day caused damage for a sustained period of time in Saskatchewan as well. He say...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jul 04, 2023

SaskPower inspecting 97,000 wood power poles this year
(correction from source of poles replaced due to wildfire) With more than 1.2 million wood power poles in service, SaskPower is investing over $5.8 million to inspect and maintain 97,000 of them this ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jun 27, 2023

Over 20,000 customers impacted in power outage – twice since last night
Approximately 22,000 customers were affected by power outages last night and then again, this morning. The region impacted included communities west of Saskatoon to the Alberta border encompassing Uni...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 27, 2023

Rate review panel is going to nix upcoming SaskEnergy hikes
The Government of Saskatchewan says it has directed the Saskatchewan Rate Review Panel to cancel a rate application submitted by SaskEnergy. The rate hike would have entailed increases of 5.0 per cent...
Vanese M. Ferguson Apr 27, 2023

Interview: Tyler Krause (EV Expo)
Coming up this Sunday is the Charged Up Saskatoon Electric Vehicle Expo along with TCU Place! In the parking lot across from TCU, there'll be food trucks, vendors, demos, test rides, and owners of ele...
Jerad Bowes Sep 28, 2022















