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Sarah Mills: We need to look beyond property tax revenue to fund municipalities
As Saskatoon Mayor Cynthia Block has suggested, the current property tax model was around in the days of the horse and buggy. Sarah Mills says we are living in a very different world today. The Mills ...
Nov 20, 2025
SUMA president welcomes federal infrastructure funding, but says more money needed
Federal funds to help municipalities build and replace infrastructure will be welcomed in communities across Saskatchewan, according to the head of the organization representing the province's urban g...
Nov 20, 2025 Randy Goulden, president of SUMA, says many municipalities are facing serious challenges when it comes to funding much-needed infrastructure projects. While money earmarked in the federal budget will help, she says more money will be needed to fully address the issues. (twixx/ Depositphotos.com)
Three fined $8,229 for illegal possession, transport of timber from provincial forest
Three men from the Prince Albert area were fined thousands of dollars in the spring for illegally possessing and transporting timber. According to Saskatchewan's Ministry of the Environment, the case ...
Nov 19, 2025 The illegal timber will be used as firewood by campers at Great Blue Heron Provincial Park, the government said. (2checkingout / Depositphotos.com)
Murray Wood: Why buy American, when there may be a Swede-er deal for Canada?
Donald Trump doesn't want Canada making cars for the U.S. market, so Murray Wood is wondering why Canada should buy American-made fighter jets? Meanwhile, Sweden thinks it has a better idea for Canada...
Nov 19, 2025
Sarah Mills: A self-serving budget vote by the Green Party's Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May may like to claim the moral high ground, saying she's doing the right thing for Canadians with her crucial budget vote, but Sarah Mills says May was only serving her own interests. The M...
Nov 19, 2025
Saskatoon road crews hard at work after overnight snowfall
Saskatoon is waking up to city blanketed in white after freezing rain turned into snow during the early morning hours on Wednesday. The City of Saskatoon said its road crews are already hard at work c...
Nov 19, 2025 The city said 20 sanders, eight plows and nine sidewalk plows will be working on road maintenance around the city on Wednesday, following an overnight snowfall. (650 CKOM file photo)
Five people now facing murder charges in Saskatoon homicide investigation
Warning: This story contains explicit details that may be disturbing to some readers. Five people are now facing charges of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 30-year-old Timothy Toot...
Nov 18, 2025 According to police, officers found the body of a homicide victim while they were executing a search warrant at a home on 22nd Street West, in the city's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood, on Dec. 18, 2024. (Will Mandzuk/650 CKOM)
Wanted Sturgeon Lake man, 20, arrested after high-speed chase: Police
Police arrested a wanted man connected with multiple alleged robberies after a high-speed chase that resulted in a police officer and a parked police car nearly being struck by a truck on Friday. The ...
Nov 18, 2025 The RCMP described Kalen Felix as five-foot-seven, weighing 140 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He also has multiple tattoos, including under his eye and above his eyebrow, police noted. (Saskatchewan RCMP/Submitted)
Mounties seize rifles, pistol, fake submachine gun during Nipawin drug investigation
RCMP officers in Nipawin seized several real guns and a fake submachine gun during a drug investigation last week. According to a statement released on Tuesday by the Saskatchewan RCMP, officers arres...
Nov 18, 2025 Police said officers seized a loaded pistol, a rifle with no serial number which was allegedly loaded with prohibited magazines, a conducted energy weapon “commonly known as a taser,” and a replica submachine gun from a home in Nipawin. (Saskatchewan RCMP/Submitted)
Murray Wood: Riders are proof the family that plays together also wins together
Murray Wood says the Saskatchewan Roughriders are a family team in ways that most teams can't match, with multiple generations represented in both the dressing room and the stands. Murray Wood deliver...
Nov 18, 2025
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