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Balgonie man charged with child porn offences
An 18-year-old Balgonie man has been charged with accessing and possessing child pornography, and making it available. According to police, officers with Saskatchewan's Internet Child Exploitation Uni...
Feb 09, 2023
Sask. oil and gas public offerings in 2022-23 raise more than $49M
The Crown petroleum and natural gas public offerings during the 2022-23 fiscal year generated more than $49 million for the Government of Saskatchewan. According to the Ministry of Energy and Resource...
Feb 09, 2023
Inmate dies at Saskatoon Correctional Centre
An inmate at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre has died. According to the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety, the 20-year-old man was found unresponsive in a cell Wednesday. Correctio...
Feb 09, 2023
Three-year-old girl dead after collision on Highway 21: RCMP
A highway collision Wednesday morning left a three-year-old girl dead and several other people injured. The collision happened shortly before 10 a.m. on Highway 21 about four kilometres south of Kerro...
Feb 09, 2023 (File photo/650 CKOM)
Clear your roof before ice dams cause damage: SGI
Rapidly changing temperatures combined with the large volume of snow seen throughout the winter are creating the right conditions for ice dams to form on roofs. According to SGI, it's important for ho...
Feb 09, 2023 (SGI/Submitted)
SaskTel Centre turns 35 as city secures firm for downtown arena design
Thirty-five years ago today, Saskatoon celebrated the opening of a new arena on city's northern outskirts. The anniversary of the opening of Saskatchewan Place is coinciding with the city choosing Sta...
Feb 09, 2023 Saskatchewan Place October 6, 1987.
(Saskatoon Public Library)
Cameco to become sole supplier of Ukraine's nuclear power plants
Cameco has secured a major supply contract with Ukraine. The Saskatoon-based mining company announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement with Energoatom, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear energy utilit...
Feb 09, 2023 A worker at Cameco’s uranium milling operation in Key Lake, Sask. (Cameco/supplied)
Roughriders’ O’Day ‘excited’ to get to free agency
The Saskatchewan Roughriders aren’t just spending money on chocolates and flowers this Valentine’s Day. CFL free agency officially begins Tuesday, meaning any agreements made during the cu...
Feb 08, 2023
Weather causing issues on some roads in western Saskatchewan
Highways in some areas of Saskatchewan were growing increasingly treacherous as Wednesday wore on. Just before 5 p.m., the Highway Hotline said travel wasn’t recommended on a number of highways ...
Feb 08, 2023
Biggar RCMP arrests second suspect in Eston break-in
Police in Biggar caught up with the second of two people wanted in connection with a Feb. 3 break-in at a home in Eston. According to the RCMP, officers caught up with 26-year-old Derrick Seefried in ...
Feb 08, 2023 22-year-old Tami Falcon and 26-year-old Derrick Seefried. (Saskatchewan RCMP/Submitted)
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