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'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
United Way of Saskatoon faces budget shortfall
A Saskatoon charity is feeling the pinch of a tougher economy. The United Way of Saskatoon and Area has cut seven jobs in the last two years. The organization will now review its budget line-by-line a...
Mar 28, 2018 The United Way of Saskatoon and Area has been in operation since 1959. (United Way of Saskatoon and Area/Facebook)
2 men arrested in Saskatoon after canine unit foot chase
Two men face numerous charges after a foot chase that ended with a canine unit nabbing one of the suspects. Just after midnight on Tuesday, an officer pulled over a vehicle in the 1200 block of Avenue...
Mar 27, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
Dundonald School drowning was 'preventable': Child Advocate
Saskatchewan's advocate for children and youth has released his report on the September 2017 death of a five-year-old boy who drowned in a storm water retention pond near Saskatoon's cole Dundonald Sc...
Mar 27, 2018 Staff and parents consoling each other out front of École Dundonald School on Sept. 12, 2017, one day after a 5-year-old student died after being found unresponsive in a nearby pond. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
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