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Fire tears through vacant Avenue W south home
A fire early Saturday morning gutted a home on Avenue W South near 22nd Street. Fire crews received a 911 call from someone that saw smoke while passing the area around 4:40 a.m. Firefighters found he...
Dec 15, 2018 Fire crews tackled a blaze in a vacant Avenue W South home on Dec. 15, 2018. (Saskatoon Fire Department)
Stuff the Bus returns to help Saskatoon food bank
People rose to the occasion Thursday to fill not one, not two, but three Saskatoon city buses with food in Rock 102's annual Stuff the Bus food drive at the Centre Mall Co-op. The campaign kicked off ...
Dec 14, 2018 Rock 102's annual Stuff the Bus filled three city busses with donations for the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre on Dec. 13, 2018. (Rock 102/Twitter)
Saskatoon boy reunited with his wheelchair
A special wheelchair that was stolen from a van in Saskatoon has been found. It was two weeks ago that a 10-year-old boy with special needs was left without his electric wheelchair after it was stolen...
Dec 13, 2018
Hwy 5 closed after fatal crash between transport truck, car
Highway 5 east of Saskatoon was closed Thursday afternoon after a serious crash between a car and a transport truck. The man driving the car was pronounced dead at the scene and a female passenger was...
Dec 13, 2018 Saskatoon Fire department crews responded to a fatal crash on Highway 5 near Ike Thiessen Grid Road on Dec. 13, 2018. (Saskatoon Fire)
NDP MLA Cathy Sproule won't seek re-election in 2020
Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is losing a veteran member of its caucus. Saskatoon Nutana MLA Cathy Sproule announced Thursday that she won't see re-election and plans to retire from politics at th...
Dec 13, 2018 Saskatchewan NDP Finance Critic Cathy Sproule addresses media at the legislature on April 10, 2018. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
Business group pushes feds to reconsider new taxes
As people work to get their holiday shopping complete, an advocacy group says many small business owners are dreading the new year. That's according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business ...
Dec 13, 2018
West Wind Aviation CEO reflects on year after deadly crash
The president and CEO of West Wind Aviation says the company has undergone a near-total overhaul in the year since one if its planes crashed near a northern Saskatchewan airstrip. "But our thoughts to...
Dec 13, 2018 The wreckage of a plane crash near Fond du Lac, Sask. on Dec. 13, 2017. (Transportation Safety Board of Canada)
Police seek suspects in 2nd armed robbery at Dundonald plaza
Saskatoon police need help to find suspects after two armed robberies over four days at the same Dundonald area plaza. The most recent happened on Tuesday around 8:15 p.m. in the plaza on the 100 bloc...
Dec 12, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
Biggar RCMP thank Crime Stoppers after man's arrest
RCMP have thanked Arelee/Perdue and surrounding area's Crime Stoppers group for helping to track down a man suspected of stealing vehicles in Biggar. Officers received a report of a vehicle stolen fro...
Dec 12, 2018
Suspected drug trafficker hides in stranger’s basement
The owners of a home at an acreage outside Saskatoon likely got a shock when police arrested a suspected drug trafficker hiding in their basement. A 25-year-old man has been charged with drug traffick...
Dec 12, 2018 (SPS Air Support Unit/Twitter)
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