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'Five years of weight off my shoulders:' Saskatoon's safe consumption site to open Oct. 1
Saskatoon now has an opening date for the province's first safe consumption site. Prairie Harm Reduction - rebranded from AIDS Saskatoon - announced on Tuesday that the consumption site will open in a...
Jul 28, 2020 Jason Mercredi, executive director of AIDS Saskatoon shows off Saskatoon's newly finished safe consumption site that should be up and running by late May. (Harrison Brooks/650 CKOM)
More details on return to school coming in August as parents question plans
Parents still have questions on how classrooms will look come September when students are let back into Saskatchewan's schools, and school boards aren't ready to share the details yet. Schools can off...
Jul 27, 2020 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM file photo)
'We do care,' says member of Riverview Hutterite Colony, giving inside look at pandemic life
Cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan have clustered in some Hutterite colonies, but there's one community just north of Saskatoon that's been doing its part to flatten the curve. Riverview colony, which ...
Jul 26, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
'I couldn't remember why I bought it': Garage sales resume in Saskatchewan
On July 21, garage and yard sales got the green light to resume in Saskatchewan. The announcement did come with restrictions, as group events are not allowed right now. "We have hand sanitizer, lysol ...
Jul 25, 2020 Joanne Ellis observes an item during the first weekend of garage sales being permitted once again in Saskatchewan. (Logan Stein/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon family turns front yard into middle-earth paradise
A family in the City Park neighbourhood has turned their front lawn into a middle-earth inspired hobbit hole based off J.R.R Tolkien's famous book "The Hobbit." Scott, Nathan, and Ann Marie Harder had...
Jul 24, 2020 Scott Harder (left) and Nathan Harder (right) in front of their constructed property. (Logan Stein/650 CKOM)
'Black mold, mice, cockroaches, bed bugs, gangsters:' evictees tell their side of conditions at City Centre Inn
Robert Deimling and his girlfriend Danesha Clarke were shocked to come home to see a green flyer Wednesday, saying they were to be out of their suite by 3 p.m. Thursday. The pair says they had been li...
Jul 23, 2020 Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
'A tough thing to measure:' Looking at Langham's Ag in Motion void with 2020 virtual event
The town of Langham usually boasts a population of around 1,500, but that all changes when Ag in Motion gets to town. But, like many things, 2020 is a different story. Due to COVID-19, the annual agri...
Jul 21, 2020 A rainy start to day 1 at Ag in Motion near Langham, on July 17, 2019. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
'This community needs it:' Safe consumption site overlooked in numerous provincial funding announcements
Jason Mercredi knows how big the Saskatchewan Roughriders are, and how much they mean to the province. But, as the executive director of AIDS Saskatoon sits and reviews security camera footage from ou...
Jul 21, 2020
'If the line hadn't been so long': Family from Unity was on icefield at time of crash
A father and daughter from Unity are reflecting on a choice they made Saturday in Alberta. "We are pretty happy we didn't go on the bus," Chris Bunz said. Chris and his daughter Parker were visiting t...
Jul 21, 2020 Picture of the Columbia Icefields bus crash. (Submitted by Chris Bunz)
Humboldt Broncos assistant coach charged with assault
We now know more about why the Humboldt Broncos have suspended one of their assistant coaches. According to RCMP Spokesperson Rob King, Curtis Toneff has been charged with assault in connection to a M...
Jul 20, 2020 Humboldt Broncos team practices ahead of first game Sept. 11, 2018. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
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