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Assiniboia to host Canadian mixed curling championship in 2025
The 2025 Canadian mixed curling championship is coming to Assiniboia in 2025. The 61st edition of the championship will take place from Nov. 2-8 at the Assiniboia Curling Club, Curling Canada announce...
Mar 01, 2024 Saskatchewan has been a destination for the tournament eight times in the past, including 2023 and 2022. (650 CKOM file photo)
Rock 102 and Saskatoon Food Bank partner up for 19th annual Stuff the Bus
Saskatoon's food bank and a local rock radio station have partnered up to tackle hunger in the community. Rock 102 has once again partnered with the Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre on its St...
Mar 01, 2024 The annual campaign aims to completely fill a Saskatoon Transit bus with donated food. (650 CKOM file photo)
Weekend storm could bring a foot of snow to Saskatoon, Regina
March is coming in like a lion this year, with a winter storm expected to dump as much as a foot of snow on the province this weekend. Environment Canada issued a winter storm watch across southern an...
Mar 01, 2024 Environment Canada says as much as a foot of snow could fall on central and southern Saskatchewan this weekend. (650 CKOM file photo)
STF says teachers across Sask. will withdraw extracurricular support Tues., Wed.
Teachers across Saskatchewan will withdraw their support for extracurriculars on Tuesday and Wednesday as their contract dispute with the province drags on. According to the Saskatchewan Teachers' Fed...
Feb 29, 2024 Samantha Becotte, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, joins teachers for a demonstration in front of the Legislative Building in Regina during a single-day teacher strike on Jan. 16, 2024. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
Feds, province partner on improvements to water infrastructure around Sask.
The provincial and federal governments have partnered up to bring millions of dollars in improvements to water and wastewater infrastructure around Saskatchewan. The joint investment means more than $...
Feb 29, 2024 A number of water treatment facilities will see upgrades thanks to funding from the federal and provincial governments. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. won't remit carbon tax on home heating, Duncan says
Saskatchewan will not remit the carbon tax on natural gas used for home heating to Ottawa. Dustin Duncan, the minister responsible for SaskEnergy, made the announcement on Thursday in a video filmed o...
Feb 29, 2024 Dustin Duncan, the minister responsible for Saskatchewan's Crowns, announces on Parliament Hill that the province will not be remitting the carbon tax to the federal government. (Scott Moe/X)
SARM says rural health care in 'crisis,' calls for return of nursing program
Rural parts of Saskatchewan are seeing a health-care crisis, with serious gaps in their systems and staff shortages prevalent throughout the province. That's the message from the Saskatchewan Associat...
Feb 28, 2024 According to SARM, rural areas of Saskatchewan are seeing a health-care 'crisis.' (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Extreme cold warnings lifted for much of Saskatchewan
Extreme cold warnings that were in effect for large portions of Saskatchewan on Wednesday morning were lifted just before 10:30 a.m. The warnings from Environment Canada had covered the central of the...
Feb 28, 2024 Dr. Phil Chilibeck, a kinesiology professor at the University of Saskatchewan, snowshoes in Kinsmen Park during a period of extreme cold in 2021. (650 CKOM file photo)
Burned-out house in Westmount neighbourhood to be demolished
The Westmount-area house where a fire broke out early Tuesday will be demolished. According to a release from the Saskatoon Fire Department, the boarded-up house in the 200 block of Avenue K North "ha...
Feb 27, 2024 Firefighters said the extreme cold was making their work challenging. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
781 Sask. drivers ticketed for failing to stop or yield last month, SGI says
January was a costly month for almost 800 Saskatchewan drivers who picked up tickets for failing to stop or yield. According to SGI, 781 tickets were issued last month for drivers who failed to obey s...
Feb 27, 2024 Many drivers in Saskatchewan seemed to struggle with the concept of red lights in January, according to figures from SGI. (650 CKOM file photo)
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