Murray Wood: Of Easter bunny bells and Juicy Fruit gum
For Murray Wood, Easter brings to mind grandma's practical advice about repurposing, and some of life's little lessons.
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Saskatoon couple win $1.7-million home lottery show home
The winners of the Saskatoon Hospital Home Lottery are going to need some time to familiarize themselves with their new home. Norman and Josie Shulhan's first time inside the Greenbryre Estates grand ...
Mar 30, 2018 Normand and Josie Shulhan were announced as winners of the 2018 Saskatoon Hospital Home Lottery on March 29, 2018. (Keenan Sorokan/ 650 CKOM)
What's open and closed for Good Friday, Easter Monday
Here's what's open and closed for the City of Saskatoon on Good Friday, March 30, and Easter Monday, April 2: City Hall will be closed. While drivers won't need to pay for city parking Friday, posted ...
Mar 29, 2018
No appeal filed in case of slain Saskatoon infant
Warning: This story contains content some readers may find disturbing. There will be no appeal of the sentence of a teenage girl who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2016 death of a six-w...
Mar 29, 2018 Jacqueline Henderson was convicted of murder in the July 3, 2016 death of six-week-old Nikosis Jace Cantre. (Jacqueline Henderson/Facebook)
'Every car has a story:' Hot rods return for 58th year
Easter weekend means the return of one of Saskatoon's most popular spring events. The Draggins' Rod and Custom Car Show is ready to get its 58th annual show off the start line. "The adage, 'bigger and...
Mar 29, 2018 The annual Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show features more than 200 vehicles and sees upwards of 20,000 guests. (Jay Thomas/ 650 CKOM)
Family pleads for answers 3 years after teen's murder
Three years have passed and the family of slain Danil Tsannie is still searching for answers. On Thursday, the teen's mother and brother made a public appeal in a video shared by Saskatoon police on s...
Mar 29, 2018 Danil Tsannie, 16, was found dead outside a Saskatoon residence on April 1, 2015. (Saskatoon Police Service)
Wildlife group turns unwanted guns into money for habitat
It's not just police agencies in Saskatchewan that are finding a way for unwanted guns to do some good. As police begin a province-wide gun amnesty program Thursday, the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federati...
Mar 29, 2018
Snowfall leads police to early morning arrest
Saskatoon Police got an assist from the weather in making an arrest on Wednesday. An 18-year-old man is facing two charges of mischief after allegedly breaking into two parked cars in Saskatoon's west...
Mar 28, 2018
First Nations, church leaders react as pope declines apology
The chief of the body representing Saskatchewan's First Nations says the conversation around a papal apology for residential school survivors isn't over. Wednesday saw the Canadian Conference of Catho...
Mar 28, 2018 Saskatoon Catholic Bishop Mark Hagomoen speaks with reporters at Holy Family Cathedral on March 28, 2018. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Meerkat exhibit opens this weekend at Saskatoon zoo
The Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo has its newest residents all settled in. Two mobs of meerkats have been brought in to take over the space formerly occupied by a popular komodo dragon exhibi...
Mar 28, 2018 The Meerkat House exhibit at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo. (City of Saskatoon)
Sask. farmers face uncertain seeding season amid grain backlog
Many Saskatchewan producers are stressing over their budgets as a rail backlog delays grain shipments. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay commented on the backlog Monday, describing it as ...
Mar 28, 2018
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