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Not-so-Mean Tweets: Police follow up on viral lip-sync video
A Saskatoon police lip-sync video set to the Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way has garnered millions of views after taking off on Facebook and Twitter. A week after their video was released, police ...
Sep 14, 2018 Saskatoon police posted a video of themselves reading tweets and Facebook comments about a lip-sync video they released Sept. 7. (Saskatoon Police Service/Twitter)
Former Bronco Xavier Labelle lands job with Saskatoon Blades
Xavier Labelle is staying in hockey after surviving the devastating Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The 18-year-old was introduced as the new assistant of hockey operations for the Saskatoon Blades Thursd...
Sep 13, 2018 Former Humboldt Bronco Xavier Labelle joins the Saskatoon Blades front office as the assistant of hockey operations on September 13th, 2018. (Twitter/Saskatoon Blades)
Truck hauling grain bin hits new overpass near Martensville
A new overpass that opened this week near Martensville already needs repairs. Work was completed Monday on the overpass on Highway 12. A semi truck hauling a grain bin struck the structure late Wednes...
Sep 13, 2018 A truck hauling a grain bin seen shortly after it struck an overpass on Highway 12 near Martensville on Sept. 12, 2018. (Jay Thomas/650 CKOM)
Highway closed following crash near Nipawin
RCMP were investigating Thursday morning after a collision on a highway near Nipawin. As of 6 a.m., Highway 55 was closed in both directions about two kilometres outside the community. Traffic was bei...
Sep 13, 2018
Former Sask. teacher charged in sexual assault during late 70s
A 78-year-old Saskatoon man has been charged following a historical sexual assault investigation. Saskatoon police said Tuesday they were contacted by Calgary police earlier this year, when a 50-year-...
Sep 11, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
RCMP unable to determine cause of deadly crash on Hwy 4
Rosetown RCMP have ended the investigation into a deadly crash on Highway 4, which claimed the lives of six people Canada Day weekend. The head-on crash happened north of Elrose around 4:30 p.m. on Ju...
Sep 11, 2018 Carissa Gasper, 28, Troy Gasper, 26, and their children Kael, 6, Shea, 4, and Maks, 2, were killed in a head-on collision north of Elrose, Sask. on June 29, 2018. (Carissa Gasper/Facebook)
Minister says feds still committed to Trans Mountain
With the federal Liberals holding a caucus retreat in Saskatoon this week, federal Infrastructure and Communities Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne tried to reassure people concerned about the fate ...
Sep 11, 2018 Federal Infrastructure and Communities Minister François-Philippe Champagne. (Liberal Party of Canada)
Pond fenced a year after boy's death, lawsuit ongoing
A year after the tragic death of a five-year-old boy, a fence is up at a retention pond behind cole Dundonald School. Ahmedsadiq Hussein Elmmi was found unresponsive in the pond on the morning of Sept...
Sep 11, 2018 An iron fence was erected between Dundonald School and a storm pond after Ahmedsadiq Elmmi, 5, drowned on Sept. 11, 2017. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Sask. man in Alta. hospital after setting himself on fire
A 28-year-old man is recovering from severe burns after setting himself on fire early Sunday morning. According to police, officers were called around 1:10 a.m. to a home on Kolynchuk Crescent where a...
Sep 11, 2018
Singing cops video hits 2M views
Saskatoon police are an online sensation. They're lip syncing video featuring members singing along to the Backstreet Boys' 1999 hit I Want It That Way surpassed 2 million views on Facebook Sunday. ht...
Sep 10, 2018 Members of the Saskatoon Police Service perform a lip-synch of the Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way in a video posted to Facebook on Sept. 7, 2018. (Saskatoon Police Service/Facebook)
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