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Police lay second murder charge in homicide investigation
Saskatoon's first homicide of 2022 is now being investigated as a double homicide. Saskatoon police issued an update Friday morning to identify the two stabbing victims in Caswell Hill. Kira Opoonecha...
Jan 21, 2022 An apartment building on the 400 block of Avenue B where the stabbings allegedly took place. (Dallas Dahlseide/650 CKOM)
Lighthouse shelter and supported living hit with dozens of fines
The Saskatoon Fire Department has issued fines to The Lighthouse over a series of code violations in the past several months. According to the City of Saskatoon, there were 42 Fire Safety Act violatio...
Jan 21, 2022
City buses deal with delays, cancellations
Saskatoon Transit continues to deal with delays and cancellations for more than one reason. The cold weather is one of the major problems, leaving buses unfit to drive. A lack of spare parts or delays...
Jan 21, 2022
Police lay more than a dozen charges after six-day trafficking investigation
Saskatoon police have laid several charges against a man and a woman following a six-day drug trafficking investigation. According to a news release, police pulled over a vehicle on the 300 block of O...
Jan 20, 2022 (650 CKOM)
Police chief addresses concerns over fatal Sept. collision in review of 2021
Saskatoon's police chief says communication with a mother who lost her nine-year-old daughter last September has improved. While discussing a review of crime and policing in 2021 with John Gormley, Sa...
Jan 20, 2022 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM file photo)
'We're pleading with them to hear us:' Sask. unions want Shahab recommendations made into PHOs
Six of Saskatchewan's unions came together Thursday to send a message to the province: Listen to Dr. Saqib Shahab's advice. The joint press conference included the heads of the Saskatchewan Teachers' ...
Jan 20, 2022 A message written on the sidewalk outside Ellis Hall, next to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Twitter)
Latest COVID update Jan. 20: 1,158 new cases, 215 hospitalizations
More than 40 per cent of COVID-19 tests done in Saskatchewan's two largest cities and reported to the Ministry of Health on Wednesday returned positive results. In Thursday's update from the ministry,...
Jan 20, 2022
'It's a dream come true': Two Sask. female hockey officials heading to the 2022 Olympic Winter Games
By Ian Gustafson After years of continued hard work and passion for the game, a pair of Saskatchewan female hockey officials will be heading to the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. Cianna Lieffer...
Jan 20, 2022 Alex Clarke, left, and Cianna Lieffers, right, have gone through the Saskatchewan officiating program together and are ultimately bound for the Olympics. (Submitted photo/Cianna Lieffers)
Extreme cold won't stop electric vehicles, but might keep them from going as far
Malcolm Lucy said a stalled vehicle isn't something he has to worry about, even in the extreme cold Saskatchewan often sees in the winter. The Saskatoon resident drives a Tesla Model 3 that he bought ...
Jan 20, 2022
Man charged in Saskatoon's first homicide of 2022
A 20-year-old man from Saskatoon has been charged in connection with the city's first homicide of the year. Police were called at 1:40 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 400 block of Avenue B North in th...
Jan 20, 2022 (650 CKOM file photo)
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