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Safety is always in season. Here are some simple, timely tips and reminders to help you and your loved ones stay safe over the holidays! The Christmas Tree If you're getting a live tree, check for freshness by tapping it on the ground.

Premier Brad Wall placed the 2012 time capsule into the cornerstone at the Legislative Building in the same location where the 1909 time capsule was removed late last year.

The new totals for merchandise exports are in for November, which show Saskatchewan had a 10.1 per cent increase in the first 11 months of the year compared to the same period of last year, ranking second among the provinces.

Two suspects are in custody following an armed robbery in Kamsack on the weekend. On Saturday, John Gordon Bradshaw, 35, allegedly entered the SARCAN location in Kamsack wearing a mask and wielding a spear gun.

The December sale of Crown petroleum and natural gas and oil sands rights generated $11.5 million in revenue for the province, bringing final land sale revenues for the 2012 calendar year to $105.7 million.

The significant deterioration in housing affordability in the second quarter in Saskatchewan was largely reversed in the third quarter, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report, issued today by RBC Economics Research.

Saskatchewan's city mayors met last Thursday, and came away from the meeting looking for a different provincial formula for divvying up grant money to municipalities.

Randy Goulden of Yorkton was among 12 people to receive Diamond Jubilee medals through the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association Friday.

Maria's has a cool vibe. When you walk into the cozy new ethnic beauty supply shop on Betts Avenue you are greeted with the vibrant colours of Jamaica and the laid-back groove of reggae.

Every year Christmas comes as a financial shock (and burden) to many and they are unprepared for the annual holiday. Even though everyone knows its coming and judging by the calendar, it soon will be here; Christmas should not catch us off guard.