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Saskatoon firefighters had a busy morning Tuesday battling two garage fires. The first was called in just after 3 a.m. The initial call was for a dumpster fire, but when crews got to the scene, they f...

Voter turnout in Saskatchewan was higher than the national average. A total of 570,505 people in the province made it out to the polls for Monday's federal election. That's 71.7 per cent of eligible v...

A new pool will have to wait a bit longer for the town of Lanigan, southeast of Saskatoon. The community was one of four finalists in the Kraft Heinz Project Plat contest, but didn't receive enough vo...

A 27-year-old man has been charged after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a power pole at 8th Street and Boychuk Drive around 11:30 Monday night, causing a massive power outage in some areas of...

As a Liberal minority government was projected across Canada, a blue wave swept across Saskatchewan. The Conservative Party won in all 14 of the province's ridings, including that of longtime Liberal ...

There will be two new faces representing Saskatoon in the House of Commons. Conservative Brad Redekopp beat the incumbent, Sheri Benson of the New Democrats, in Saskatoon West in a race that was close...

For a brief period Monday, Michael Kram was thinking he wouldn't be giving up his day job. "I went to Elections.ca and the first two polls that came in didn't go my way and I was thinking, 'OK, I gues...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton man says he defaced a mural of teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg because he wanted to take a stand peacefully. James Bagnall says he wrote "stop the lies" and "thi...

Listen live here to 650 CKOM's coverage of Decision 2019, with Murray Wood and John Gormley in studio and our reporters with candidates around the city.

CLEVELAND (AP) - The nation's three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker reached a $260 million settlement with two Ohio counties over the deadly havoc wreaked by opioids, just hours before...