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Truck recorded in Saskatoon's Northeast Swale
A pick-up truck was captured on video taking a joyride through Saskatoon's Northeast Swale on Sunday evening. The nearly 50-second video filmed by a resident in Aspen Ridge shows a truck driving at lo...
Apr 03, 2019 A pick-up truck was filmed driving through the Northeast Swale in Saskatoon on March 31, 2019.
Sheraton Cavalier doorman retires after 50-year career
Dan Cardinal was 18 when he started what would turn into a decades-long career at Saskatoon's Sheraton Cavalier hotel in 1969. On Monday, he retired. "At 2:30 p.m. I got'er done," Cardinal told 650 CK...
Apr 03, 2019 Dan Cardinal, photographed here after receiving a Canadian Tourism National Employee of the Year award in 2016, retired from the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel in Saskatoon in April 2019 after 50 years on the job. (Facebook)
Suspect threatens police officer with needle
Saskatoon police say a man is facing multiple charges after what started as a call about a shoplifter at Confederation Mall. Police said they were called Tuesday afternoon with a report of a shoplifte...
Apr 03, 2019
Man robbed at knife-point in Saskatoon bar washroom
Saskatoon police are looking for a man suspected of an armed robbery at a bar just off Idylwyld Drive on Monday. Police said in a release a 56-year-old man was threatened with a knife and had his wall...
Apr 02, 2019
Plane pulled to surface after 60 years in Peter Pond Lake
In 1959, a pilot and conservation officer flying from Buffalo Narrows to La Loche were killed when the floatplane they were in crashed in Peter Pond Lake. Sixty years later, the aircraft is back on th...
Apr 02, 2019 A Cessna 180 floatplane was recovered from Peter Pond Lake on March 27, 2019 (Doug Chishom/Saskatchewan Aviation Museum)
Saskatoon mayor wants arena site picked by end of 2019
Saskatoon's mayor says he'd like to see the city select a location for a downtown arena by the end of the year. "We have a tremendous opportunity because we already have a strong downtown but we can m...
Apr 02, 2019 People lining up to enter Sasktel Centre on Oct. 29, 2017. (Celine Grimard/650CKOM)
Saskatoon police taser break-in suspect
A 23-year-old man was tasered while running from police armed with a pellet gun, according to a Saskatoon police media release. Police were called ot the 300 block of Avenue D North Monday evening fol...
Apr 02, 2019
Arrest made in Saskatoon carjacking
A teenage girl faces charges in connection to a carjacking in Saskatoon. It happened around 3:00 a.m. Sunday when a woman was threatened out of her car by two people on 33rd street west near Matheson ...
Apr 01, 2019 (650 CKOM file photo)
Moe: 'Some type of irony carbon tax comes in on April Fool's'
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe hopes the April Fool's start date of the federal carbon tax is an omen. "It's some type of irony that the carbon tax comes in on April Fool's," Moe told 650 CKOM's John ...
Apr 01, 2019 Premier Scott Moe speaks to reporters at the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) annual convention in Saskatoon on Feb. 5, 2019. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
City of Saskatoon waits to see effect of carbon tax
As the federal carbon tax takes effect across Saskatchewan, the City of Saskatoon is waiting for more information on how the tax might affect its budget. City of Saskatoon chief financial officer Kerr...
Apr 01, 2019
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