Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Public washrooms a possibility for Pleasant Hill & Riversdale
Saskatoon city councillors will soon grapple with how, where and when to potentially approve the installation of public bathrooms in the Riversdale and Pleasant Hill neighbourhoods for the summer. The...
May 25, 2024 There are no public bathrooms available in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood after 6 p.m. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
City of Saskatoon struggles to find emergency shelter sites
Finding one or two new emergency shelter sites in Saskatoon is proving to be a challenging task, and it doesn't appear as though a list of potential locations will be released publicly in May, as orig...
May 24, 2024 A list of potential locations will not be released publicly in May for Saskatoon's prospective new emergency shelters according to a report. (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon councillors to contemplate riverfront land donation
There could be another riverbank nature area for the public to soon enjoy, if city councillors vote to accept a land donation. According to a report in the May 29 city council agenda, P.R. Development...
May 23, 2024 Land parcels to be donated by P.R. Developments (City of Saskatoon)
Council to consider borrowing $22 million for organics processing facility
Saskatoon's city councillors will contemplate a plan to borrow more than $22 million to construct an organics processing facility over the next two years. A previous agreement with Green Prairie Envir...
May 23, 2024 Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark says the financial impacts will be even greater if the city doesn't build its own facility. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
JPCH Foundation donates $2 million for new pediatric research fund
The Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation is donating $2 million over the next five years, to create a new pediatric research fund at University of Saskatchewan's Department of Pediatrics. The m...
May 22, 2024 The Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation has donated $2 million to establish a new pediatric research fund (Lara Fominoff 650/CKOM)
(L to R) Peter Stoicheff, University of Saskatchewan President; Marilyn Baetz,Interim Dean U of S College of Medicine; Dr. Terry Klaussen, provincial pediatrics department head, Dr. Laurentiu Givelichian, Board Chair; Brynn Boback-Lane, President and CEO JPCH Foundation; Everett Hindley, Saskatchewan Health Minister
(Centre) Nicko Karpan, JPCH Foundation ambassador
Saskatoon woman thanks 'guardian angel' paramedics who saved her life
A pair of Saskatoon paramedics saved Nicole Craig's life. The 45-year-old woman was in downtown Saskatoon with a work colleague on April 15, when she suddenly went into cardiac arrest. Her colleague c...
May 21, 2024 Nicole Craig (centre) thanked paramedics Matt McGurk (left) and Mitchell Sparrow for saving her life after she went into cardiac arrest in downtown Saskatoon last month. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Riversdale Giant Tiger to close its doors at the end of July
A discount food and grocery store many people in Saskatoon's Riversdale neighbourhood consider to be a staple, will soon close its doors. According to a statement from Giant Tiger's Jessica Charbonnea...
May 18, 2024 The Giant Tiger store on Avenue F South, in Saskatoon's Riversdale neighbourhood is set to close on July 31st. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Rain helps crews in Fort McMurray while B.C. cracks down on open burning
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Wildfire crews have reported no further growth in the wildfire that continues to burn southwest of Fort McMurray. Alberta Wildfire reports the lack of growth allowed crews to ke...
May 18, 2024
VIDEO: SUV crashes into Lakewood apartment near busy shopping centre
It started out as a quiet morning for Walid Khalid and his wife Rameesa Nasir, who live in a ground-floor apartment building in the 300 Block of Herold Road in Saskatoon's Lakewood neighbourhood. Khal...
May 17, 2024 A grey Lexus SUV crashed into a Lakewood apartment building just after 11:00 Friday morning. (Lara Fominoff /650 CKOM)
Council explores public washroom options in Riversdale, Pleasant Hill
When most people have to use a washroom, they simply use the facilities inside their home or business. But for those who are homeless - especially in Saskatoon's core neighbourhoods like Riversdale an...
May 17, 2024 A homeless encampment in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
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