School buses cancelled around Sask., schools remain open

Due to the extreme cold, school buses have been cancelled in Regina and many other communities around the province.

Both the Regina public and Regina Catholic systems said early Wednesday that their schools will remain open, but school buses are cancelled.

That means thousands of families will have to make their own arrangements to get their kids to school.

City of Regina "high school special" buses are running, however.

Around the province, school divisions were using a variety ofmethods to get the message out about the status of bus service: home pages, texts, phone calls and Twitter among them.

School buses have also been cancelled for Regina-area schools in the Prairie Valley school division.

Prairie Valley said schools will remain open in Balgonie, Bethune, Edenwold, Grand Coulee, Lumsden, Milestone, Pense, Pilot Butte, Regina, Regina Beach and White City but buses will not be running to those schools.

However, buses will be operating in the rest of the school division.

More information is available on the Prairie Valley website at pvsd.ca.

Saskatoon school buses running

Saskatoon school buses, both the public and Catholic systems, were running on Wednesday.

Buses in the francophone school system were cancelled. That includes:

• Ecole Notre-Dame-des-VertusinZenon Park.
• Ecole DucharmeinMoose Jaw.
• Ecole St-Isidorein Bellevue.
• Ecole Canadienne-franaiseinSaskatoon.
• Ecole Providence inVonda.
• Ecole Monseigneur de Laval inRegina.
• Ecole Mathieu ofGravelbourg.
• Ecole Beau SoleilofGravelbourg.

Cold weather warnings in effect

Environment Canada said Regina, Saskatoon and many other parts of the province were under an extreme cold weather warning, with temperatures in the -30s C.

With the wind factored in, it will feels like it's in the -40s, the weather agency says.