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Saskatoon under severe thunderstorm watch
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for Saskatoon. The alert was issued Tuesday just before 3:30 p.m. It covers areas surrounding Delisle, Rosthern and Wakaw. Heat warnings were issued earlier Tu...
Jul 10, 2018 Saskatoon has been added to a growing list of weather watches and warnings in the province on July 10, 2018. (Environment Canada)
Saskatoon police arrest man after standoff
Saskatoon police reported dealing with a man barricaded inside a building Tuesday morning in the city's Parkridge neighbourhood. Police were called around 9:30 a.m. to a home on the 100 block of Podil...
Jul 10, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
RCMP say semi truck rear-ended tractor in fatal crash
RCMP provided an update Tuesday on the investigation into a deadly crash on Highway 16. Bettina Shuurmans, 55, was pronounced dead at the scene Monday morning after the tractor she and her husband wer...
Jul 10, 2018 Bettina and Henk Schuurmans pictured with their Canadian Milk Tour tractor, and dairy cow Maple, during a stop in Regina on July 6, 2018. (Farm Credit Canada/Twitter)
Trucker charged in Humboldt Broncos bus crash gets bail
The truck driver charged in connection with the Humboldt Broncos bus crash was granted bail ahead of his next court appearance. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 29, made his first appearance Tuesday in Melfort P...
Jul 10, 2018 RCMP escort Jaskirat Singh Sidhu from the Melfort Provincial Court building on July 10, 2018. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Man charged with arson in deadly Caswell Hill fire
A 39-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection to a deadly fire in Caswell Hill last Friday. Around 2:30 a.m. on July 6, firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the rear of the hom...
Jul 09, 2018 Investigators are looking into the cause of a house fire on Avenue F North that killed a person on July 6th, 2018. (Photo by Saskatoon Fire)
'Devastated:' Dairy farmers' tractor trip ends in tragedy
A 55-year-old woman is dead, and her husband recovering in hospital, after a semi collided with a tractor north of Saskatoon Monday morning. Henk and Bettina Schuurmans, from Elmira, Ont., were contin...
Jul 09, 2018 Bettina and Henk Schuurmans pictured with their Canadian Milk Tour tractor, and dairy cow Maple, during a stop in Regina on July 6, 2018. (Farm Credit Canada/Twitter)
Central Sask. under severe thunderstorm warnings, watches
Environment Canada issued severe thunderstorm warnings and watches across most of central Saskatchewan late Saturday afternoon. At 3:45 p.m., meteorologists began tracking a cluster of severe thunders...
Jul 07, 2018
Police investigate man's death in Pleasant Hill area
Saskatoon police are asking for tips to help their investigation into a man's death. Officers responded to a call about an injured man in an alley in the 1400 block of 20th Street around 5:30 p.m. Fri...
Jul 07, 2018
Powerful storm downs trees, knocks out power in Central Sask.
People looking to escape the heat with a weekend away at the lake were woken up by trees falling and loud thunder in the Debden, Murray Point and Emma Lake areas. As a storm system made its way throug...
Jul 07, 2018 A severe storm system caused a tree to hit a trailer in the Murray Point/Emma Lake area early July 7, 2018 (Terri Bjarnason/Twitter)
Province warns people, pets to avoid water with algae blooms
People hoping to beat the heat with a dip in the lake are being advised to avoid water with blue-green algae blooms. The Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health issued a new rele...
Jul 06, 2018 A blue-green algae bloom at Crooked Lake Provincial Park. (Government of Saskatchewan)
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