Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Little Leo: Parents share joy as province agrees to pay costs
A Saskatoon family is expressing relief after learning the province will cover thousands of dollars in medical costs tied to their infant son's rare genetic disorder. Crystal and Adam Leptich started ...
Jul 24, 2018 Saskatoon's Leo Leptich was born with epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic condition that causes him to be especially vulnerable to cuts and blisters. (LeoTheBraveLittleLion/Facebook)
Police use Taser after woman jumps off roof
Saskatoon police used a taser on a 29-year-old woman early Tuesday morning. Police said correctional officers asked them to come to the provincial Women's Community Training Residence at 123 La Ronge ...
Jul 24, 2018
Montgomery blaze not suspicious: fire department
Firefighters believe a massive blaze that ripped through multiple homes Sunday in Saskatoon's Montgomery neighbourhood was started accidentally. In an update issued Monday evening, the Saskatoon Fire ...
Jul 24, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
Storage barn blazes at Riverview Hutterite Colony
A barn fire northeast of the city needed the help of multiple fire crews to get it under control. Saskatoon firefighters responded to calls of a storage barn on fire at the Riverview Hutterite Colony ...
Jul 23, 2018 Firefighters battle a blaze in a storage barn at the Riverview Hutterite Colony on July 23, 2018. (Saskatoon Fire Department)
31-year-old woman missing from North Battleford
Battlefords RCMP are asking for the public's help finding a woman who has been missing for nearly two weeks. Ashley Dawn Morin, 31, was last seen July 10 in North Battleford at around 10:30 p.m. She i...
Jul 23, 2018 Missing woman Ashley Dawn Morin, 31, was last seen July 10 in North Battleford. (RCMP)
Saskatoon man targeted on walk home from mosque
Saskatoon's Abu Sheikh says a walk he takes every day turned into a terrifying experience on July 13, 2018. Sheikh told 650 CKOM he noticed a white pickup truck coming up the street as he walked from ...
Jul 23, 2018 The Sheikh family poses in front of a boarded-up window that had a brick thrown through it after Abu (centre-right) narrowly escaped an alleged attack in front of his home on July 13, 2018. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Fire tears through Montgomery homes: smoke seen across city
Heavy black smoke billowed into the air Sunday afternoon as several homes in the Montgomery neighbourhood burned. Saskatoon police closed Crescent Boulevard between Caen Street and 11th Street as fire...
Jul 22, 2018 Firefighters working at a multi-home blaze on Crescent Blvd in the Montgomery area July 22, 2018 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
RCMP, police work together to stop dangerous driver
Multiple calls about a dangerous and erratic driver around 7:30 p.m. Friday turned into a team effort between Saskatoon RCMP, Saskatoon police and Corman Park police. The callers reported the driver w...
Jul 22, 2018
Severe storm system moves through Saskatchewan
Environment Canada issued severe thunderstorm watches and warnings through the day Saturday as a system with two waves of storms moved across the province. "With those thunderstorms, we are expecting ...
Jul 21, 2018 Storm clouds over Duval, Saskatchewan July 21, 2018 (Dean Sentes/Twitter)
Woman killed in highway 21 rollover near Maidstone
RCMP say one woman is dead after a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 21 north of Maidstone. In a release, police said she was the only person inside the vehicle when first responders arrived around 1...
Jul 21, 2018
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