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Mayfair Hardware closing after more than 70 years in business
Saskatoon is losing a piece of retail history. Mayfair Hardware on 33rd Street is closing up shop after a seven-decade run serving the community. "On behalf of Bruce Thomas, owner of Mayfair Hardware,...
May 04, 2020 Many customers looking to support Mayfair Hardware for the final time lined around the store on May 4, 2020. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Fire crews deal with blaze inside boarded up Pleasant Hill home
Saskatoon fire crews extinguished a blaze at a boarded-up home in Pleasant Hill on Sunday. The Saskatoon Fire Department received a report of heavy black smoke exiting the back of the vacant home just...
May 03, 2020 Crews were called Sunday, May 3, 2020 to a vacant home on the 400 block of Ave. S South. (Saskatoon Fire Department)
Province sees 12 new cases of COVID-19, with three more recoveries
Saskatchewan reported 12 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total up to 433. Four new cases were reported in each of the North, Far North and Saskatoon regions. Several presumptiv...
May 03, 2020 Health Minister Jim Reiter (l-r), Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab brief the media about the province's fight against COVID-19 on March 18, 2020. (Adriana Christianson/980 CJME)
Province sees 12 new cases of COVID-19, with three more recoveries
Saskatchewan reported 12 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total up to 433. Four new cases were reported in each of the North, Far North and Saskatoon regions. Several presumptiv...
May 03, 2020
Snowbirds fly over Nova Scotia to mark naval helicopter crash, mass shooting
HALIFAX - The famed Snowbirds aerobatics team is flying over Nova Scotia communities today in an effort to remember lost comrades in a naval helicopter crash and to lift the spirits of a province stru...
May 03, 2020
Man facing charges after alleged machete attack sends one man to hospital
A Saskatoon man is facing charges of aggravated assault and breach of a court order after an apparent machete attack Saturday. Saskatoon police were called to the Broadway Avenue and 1st Street area o...
May 03, 2020 (650 CKOM)
Trudeau: NHL players would need to follow quarantine before season could resume
The NHL could face another hurdle if the league decides to continue the 2019-20 season in the near future - getting non-Canadian resident players across the border to join their respective t...
May 03, 2020
Security guards in high demand, face more stress on job during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an enormous demand for security guards, whose job descriptions have been expanded to include temperature checks, grocery store crowd control and - in at least one cas...
May 03, 2020
Former Montreal Canadiens player Georges Laraque describes COVID-19 battle
MONTREAL - A couple of weeks ago, former Montreal Canadiens tough guy Georges Laraque was running five or six days a week as he trained for a marathon. Now, the former NHL enforcer...
May 03, 2020
Civil service saw COVID-19 benefit programs as ‘Dunkirk’-style rescue effort
OTTAWA - It was a sunny March 18 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented the government’s first big attempt at containing the economic fallout from COVID-19 in the form of an $82-billion re...
May 03, 2020
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8:30 - Last night, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made an address about the separatism debate in the province. She said ...
