Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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Saskatoon jury convicts Robert Major in deadly 2016 crash
A Saskatoon jury convicted Robert Major late Thursday evening, finding the Langham, Sask. man guilty on three counts each of dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, cri...
Jan 25, 2019 (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon man faces child porn charges
A Saskatoon man faces two child pornography related charges. The Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation Unit said the charges relate to a complaint dating back to Dec. 6. Police said the complaint w...
Jan 25, 2019
Winter Shines encourages Saskatoon to embrace winter
It's around this time of year we start to feel a little cooped up. This weekend, though, the Winter Shines festival offers a cure for cabin fever. Organizer Shad Ali says the igloo fest, pony rides an...
Jan 25, 2019 Ice sculptures at the WinterShines festival at the Saskatoon Farmers' Market. (Tourism Saskatoon)
Sask. NHLer helps net life-saving donation for teen with leukemia
The NHL's St. Louis Blues put out a video this week showing how a program set up in honour of a Saskatchewan woman who died of leukemia has helped save a life. Mandi Schwartz died in 2011 at the age o...
Jan 25, 2019 Regan Brown, 18, of Alabama was linked up with a donor for a life-saving bone marrow transplant through a registry set up by the family of Saskatchewan NHL player Jaden Schwartz. (Regan Brown/Facebook)
Crash blocks traffic outside of Saskatoon
RCMP said Thursday night they were on scene of a two vehicle crash south east of Saskatoon. It happened just west of Elstow on Highway 16. RCMP said the fire department, as well as EMS responded. Poli...
Jan 24, 2019 (File photo/650 CKOM)
Kitten stolen from Saskatoon SPCA shelter
There's a cat burglar somewhere in Saskatoon, hiding away a kitten that was nabbed from the SPCA's adoption floor Tuesday. The SPCA said in a release Thursday a 16-week-old tabby cat named Captain Cru...
Jan 24, 2019
Federal investigators release report on fatal cropduster crash
The federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released a report Thursday on a fatal plane crash that happened over the summer near Arborfield, Sask. The single-engine Cessna A188B AGtruck cropduster o...
Jan 24, 2019 The wreckage of a cropduster plane that crashed near Arborfield, Sask. on July 12, 2018. (Transportation Safety Board)
Saskatoon teen youngest to circle the globe on a bicycle
He's conquered the globe on a bicycle, but he can't legally buy a beer at home. Saskatoon's B'yauling Toni became the youngest person ever to circumnavigate Earth on a bicycle when he arrived back in ...
Jan 24, 2019 Saskatoon cyclist B'Yauling Toni circumnavigated the world in seven months, including a stop along Australia's southern coast. (B'yauling Toni/Submitted)
Highway 11 traffic slowly returns to normal after derailment
Nearly a day-and-a-half after 30 CN Rail cars came off the tracks north of Saskatoon, traffic is starting to get back to normal on Highway 11. The City of Saskatoon announced both southbound lanes of ...
Jan 23, 2019 A CN tain derailed near the intersection of Highway 11 and Wanuskewin Road on Jan. 22, 2019. (SPS Air Support Unit/Twitter)
Former U of S coach Greg Jockims joins Saskatchewan Rattlers
The man that led the University of Saskatchewan Huskies to their first national men's basketball title in 2010 has signed on with the brand new Saskatchewan Rattlers. The incoming Canadian Elite Baske...
Jan 23, 2019 Former University of Saskatchewan basketball coach Greg Jockims was named the head coach and general manager of the Saskatchewan Rattlers on Jan. 23, 2019. (Wray Morrision/650 CKOM)
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