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The Saskatchewan government will unveil it's plans for liquor stores Wednesday.   It is being described as an expansion of privatized liquor retailing.   In consultations that began last yea...

Three out of six inmates charged after what police believed was an attempted escape from the Saskatoon Correctional Centre back in July have been sentenced. James Chaisson got 60 days tacked on to his...

AIDS Saskatoon hopes Charlie Sheen's HIV diagnosis will give hope to people living with the virus and help fight discrimination. In an interview on NBC's Today show, the Hollywood actor...

Saskatoon already welcomes several hundred refugees each year, and even more could be landing in the city with the Liberal government moving ahead with its plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees...

One suspect is on the loose after a bank robbery in Regina's north end. Regina police responded to a call of a robbery in progress at the Royal Bank of Canada on Rochdale Boulevard at 9:47 a.m. on Tue...

Saskatchewan is seeing a slight reduction in the number of people turning to food banks. Food Banks Canada released its 2015 Hunger Count Tuesday morning which shows food bank usage in 2015 in Saskatc...

A lot of people in communities north of Regina woke up Monday morning to find they'd been robbed. According to the RCMP, 15 different vehicles or unlocked garages were robbed between midnight and 6 a....

A 59 year old jogger has died after being hit by a vehicle southwest of Saskatoon. Warman RCMP were called out to a grid road near Cedar Villa Estates just after 1:30 p.m Monday. Investigators said a ...

The City of Saskatoon is walking back earlier projections of a budget deficit for 2015. The administration had predicted a $1.2 million deficit in its second quarter forecast earlier this year, but th...

Another year has been added to a Regina man's sentence after he invaded a home in December 2011. In January, Nicholas Foster, now 28, was sentenced to two years, less a day, in jail for breaking into ...