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Sarah Mills: There is still some skepticism about ice skating judging
Canada's ice dancing bronze medal should be celebrated, but Sarah Mills says the stink of Salt Lake City and the judge vote scandal still lingers around the Olympics all these years later. The Mills M...
Feb 12, 2026
Murray Wood: Social media means facts can become another casualty after any tragedy
After any mass shooting, Murray Wood says you can usually count on two things. Police will be slow to release information, and the Internet will rush to fill the vacuum with speculation. Murray Wood d...
Feb 12, 2026
Saskatchewan residents invited to 'fall in love with fishing' on Valentine's weekend
If you don't have a date for Valentine's Day, don't worry - there are plenty of fish in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Environment Ministry is inviting people across the province to "trade up the rose...
Feb 12, 2026 Anyone heading out for some fishing was reminded to put safety first and check the ice thickness before venturing out on any frozen body of water. (kozakova.elv@gmail.com/Depositphotos.com)
Local roads rut free, Saskatoon snow clearing crews tackle back lanes and missed streets
If your back alley or local street is impassable because of ruts, help is at hand. After melting and refreezing created deep ruts across the city, crews completed local street rut levelling on Wednesd...
Feb 11, 2026 A recent mid-winter melt left the City of Saskatoon with ruts on streets city-wide to shave down. City crews are now reporting that initial work has been complete. (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon police briefs: Man being treated in hospital after stabbing in Riversdale
A man was stabbed at a home in Saskatoon's Riversdale neighbourhood on Tuesday night. Police said officers were called to a hospital in the 1700 block of 20th Street West, where they found the victim....
Feb 11, 2026 Officers went to the home and found the suspects had already fled before police arrived. (Taylor MacPherson/650 CKOM)
Tumbler Ridge newspaper editor says many questions remain unanswered after deadly shootings
Nine people, including the suspect, were killed and at least 25 were injured in a mass shooting at home and school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Tuesday. The suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted i...
Feb 11, 2026 The road is blocked off before the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jesse Boily
Excavation company fined $58,100 after worker seriously hurt in trench collapse
An excavation company is facing a hefty fine after a workplace injury in 2022. According to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, Triple 7 Excavating Ltd. pleaded guilty ...
Feb 11, 2026 The company was charged with failing “ to give notice to the division as soon as reasonably possible of an incident at a place of employment that required a worker to be admitted to a hospital as an in-patient for a period of 72 hours or more” as well as failing to ensure that workers in a trench more than 1.2 metres deep are protected from cave ins or sliding material. (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatchewan RCMP briefs: Mounties investigate suspicious death in Prince Albert
The Saskatchewan RCMP's homicide investigators are looking into a death in Prince Albert. While very few details were shared, the Mounties said "an individual was located deceased at a property on 41s...
Feb 11, 2026 While very few details were shared, the Mounties said “an individual was located deceased at a property on 41st Street East in Prince Albert” on Monday. (Saskatchewan RCMP)
Sarah Mills: Affairs of the heart make the podium at the Olympics
The adrenaline of winning bronze may have spurred a Norwegian biathlete to admit adultery in a live interview, but Sarah Mills says the only thing he's left with now is a medal around his neck. The Mi...
Feb 11, 2026
Murray Wood: Looking back at the Calgary Olympics in 1988
Murray Wood is remembering some of the coldest day of his life, covering the torch relay ahead of the Calgary Olympics in 1988, although it did end with a bottle of champagne and a Snowbirds flyby. Mu...
Feb 11, 2026
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