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More Riders players test positive for COVID, leaving next game in doubt
While Saturday's CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and visiting Toronto Argonauts is expected to go on as scheduled, time is running out. The Riders have had several more players test posi...
Jul 20, 2022 Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Jeremy O'Day. (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan to start COVID vaccinations for kids under 5 this week
Saskatchewan will start offering around 13,000 doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of five at clinics this week. Health Canada approved the vaccine for children aged six mon...
Jul 20, 2022
482 impaired drivers nabbed in June: SGI
Hundreds of Saskatchewan drivers are facing stiff penalties after getting behind the wheel while impaired. According to SGI, a total of 482 people were criminally charged or had their licence suspende...
Jul 20, 2022
Sidhu granted day parole after Wednesday hearing
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the former truck driver responsible for the deadly 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash, was granted day parole after a hearing Wednesday. The Parole Board of Canada gave Sidhu day pa...
Jul 20, 2022 Truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu pleaded guilty on Jan. 8, 2019 to 29 counts of dangerous driving in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Regina man killed in car-semi collision near Bienfait
An 18-year-old man from Regina is dead after a car and a semi collided on Highway 18 near Bienfait on Tuesday. The RCMP said officers responded to the scene at about 9:40 a.m. The driver of the car wa...
Jul 19, 2022
New utility-scale solar project up and running in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan’s second utility-scale solar project is now online. The 10-megawatt (MW) Peskstw Solar facility, located in the rural municipality of Weyburn, joined SaskPower’s provincial gr...
Jul 19, 2022
Human remains found in Hyde Park are those of missing Saskatoon woman
The human remains found in a Saskatoon park Monday have been identified as those of a 53-year-old woman who was last seen July 10. The body of Nuzhat Tabassum was found in Hyde Park by a passerby Mond...
Jul 19, 2022 (Saskatoon Police Service/Submitted)
BHP moves up opening date for Jansen potash mine
Mining giant BHP has released a new schedule for the Jansen potash project east of Saskatoon. The company says it's working to bring the first phase of the potash mine into production one year sooner ...
Jul 19, 2022 BHP Camp and Housing at Jansen Mine
Update: Evacuation order lifted for U of S college
Staff and students at the University of Saskatchewan were allowed back at campus buildings Tuesday morning following Monday's six-hour evacuation. https://twitter.com/usask/status/1549245693432582144 ...
Jul 18, 2022 St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM file photo)
Roughriders announce 'several' positive COVID tests
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak. In a statement late Monday afternoon, the CFL team said "several members" of the team and its support staff had tested positive for t...
Jul 18, 2022
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