Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list inclu...
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‘Beacons of the Prairies:’ An author’s journey to photograph Saskatchewan’s disappearing grain elevators
In the 1950s, there were more than 3,000 grain elevators in Saskatchewan, often in nearly every city and town. Now, most of them are gone, decommissioned, destroyed or downed because of storms and oth...
Sep 26, 2021
Latest COVID update Sept. 25: 492 new cases, 282 in hospital, 4 deaths
More records continued to be set for COVID-19 numbers in Saskatchewan Saturday. The totals of hospitalizations and ICU patients once again set records, while vaccinations remained above 5,000 for the ...
Sep 25, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
China releases two Canadians after Meng Wanzhou case resolved
The Two Michaels are returning to Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday evening that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor had been released by the Chinese government and were on a plane ...
Sep 24, 2021
Killer of Katelyn Noble sentenced to life in prison
The man who killed a 15-year-old girl near Radisson in 2007 has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years. Eduard Baranec was sentenced Friday in Saskatoon Court of Queen'...
Sep 24, 2021 Katelyn Noble, 15, disappeared from a farmhouse in the Radisson area on August 27, 2007. (Child Find Saskatchewan)
Privacy issues force temporary removal of QR codes from vaccination records
Four days after being launched, QR codes are temporarily being removed from Saskatchewan residents' COVID-19 vaccination records due to privacy issues. The Government of Saskatchewan said Friday after...
Sep 24, 2021
Saskatchewan gov't to cover cost of new cystic fibrosis drug
Saskatchewan residents living with cystic fibrosis got some help from the provincial government Friday. In a media release, the government said it would start providing coverage on Oct. 1 for Trikafta...
Sep 24, 2021
COVID situation in Sask. hospitals could get worse before it gets better
Saskatchewan hit another record high for COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU admissions on Friday, and it's expected things will keep getting worse. "I would say, broadly speaking, our health system is ...
Sep 24, 2021
RCMP investigating after woman found dead in Choiceland
The Saskatchewan RCMP's Major Crimes Unit South is investigating the suspicious death of a 37-year-old woman in Choiceland. The Mounties say they got a call Friday at about 1:45 a.m., about a person w...
Sep 24, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Latest COVID update Sept. 24: 528 new cases, 276 in hospital, 5 deaths
Numbers continued to rise across the COVID-19 board in Saskatchewan on Friday. The totals of hospitalizations and ICU patients again set records, the number of new cases was the second-highest ever re...
Sep 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Detained Huawei exec reaches deal with U.S. justice officials
Canada's diplomatic dispute with China over Meng Wanzhou may be nearing its conclusion. The Huawei chief financial officer has been under house arrest in Vancouver since December of 2018 while awaitin...
Sep 24, 2021
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