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From reeking rink food to bad boxing: Sask. RCMP reveals 2023's worst calls
Operators at the Saskatchewan RCMP's Divisional Operational Communications Centre regularly deal with emergency calls. Then there are the other 911 calls -- the ones that don't come anywhere close to ...
Jan 09, 2024 The RCMP got more than 350,000 calls for service in 2023 -- and some of them definitely didn't constitute an emergency. (650 CKOM file photo)
Police say 'grandparent scam' back in Saskatoon
The so-called "grandparent scam" has returned to Saskatoon. On Tuesday, the Saskatoon Police Service's Economic Crime Section issued an alert saying "a series of fraudulent activities" had occurred in...
Jan 09, 2024 The fraud involves someone pretending to be the victim's grandchild who claims to be facing an emergency and needs money. (650 CKOM file photo)
Community engagement a top priority for new Saskatoon shelter provider
If there was a shelter coming into the neighbourhood where James Gardiner worked or lived, he would be concerned. So the incoming CEO of Alberta-based The Mustard Seed -- which has been chosen to run ...
Jan 09, 2024 The Mustard Seed has been chosen to operate two emergency shelters in Saskatoon to help the homeless. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Capping booze: Prince Albert will reduce hours for alcohol sales
By Susan McNeil Prince Albert City Council will change the hours liquor stores can sell alcohol for consumption off their premises after a vote on Monday. Anna Dinsdale, the newly hired Community Safe...
Jan 09, 2024 Liquor retailers in Prince Albert could soon see the hours they are allowed to operate reduced. (file photo/paNOW)
Board of Police Commissioners hopes to name new chief this summer
The Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners is almost ready to officially put out its "Help Wanted" ad for a new police chief. Former chief Troy Cooper retired in mid-December after nearly six years a...
Jan 08, 2024 Saskatoon's Board of Police Commissioners hopes to have a new chief in place as quickly as possible. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Snowfall warnings issued for much of central Saskatchewan
Winter has finally arrived in Saskatchewan. Just before 3:30 p.m. Monday, Environment and Climate Change Canada issued snowfall warnings for a wide swath of central Saskatchewan. The warnings covered ...
Jan 08, 2024 Environment Canada issued snowfall warnings for areas of Saskatchewan on Monday. Saskatoon could get between 10 and 15 centimetres of snow. (Highway Hotline/Twitter)
Sask. sex offender appeal mostly quashed
A Saskatchewan man who admitted to sexually assaulting his sister as well as two of his daughters won't be spending less time in prison, but will spend less time on the sex offender registry thanks to...
Jan 08, 2024
Alberta-based Christian non-profit to run two Saskatoon homeless shelters
An Alberta-based Christian non-profit organization will be the new operator of two 30-bed homeless shelters in Saskatoon. According to its website, The Mustard Seed has been operating since 1984, and ...
Jan 08, 2024 A homeless encampment in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Man charged after 'physical altercation' with Saskatoon police officer
A 28-year-old Saskatoon man is facing charges after he allegedly assaulted a police officer Friday. According to police, members of the Guns and Gangs Unit saw a wanted man Friday at around 7:30 p.m. ...
Jan 08, 2024 Police found a machete and ammunition on the man after he was in custody. (650 CKOM file photo)
$1K donation made to Rosthern food bank in honour of murdered mother
By Nigel Maxwell Describing her late daughter's kind nature and heart of gold, Karen Daniels says a $1,000 donation to the food bank in Rosthern seemed like a fitting way to pay tribute to her. The ch...
Jan 08, 2024 Karen Daniels (left) with her daughter Monique Gamble and grandson Spirit Spence. (Karen Daniels/Submitted to paNOW)
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