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Latest COVID update Jan. 15: More than 1,000 new cases, 19 new hospitalizations
There are 19 more people in hospital because of COVID-19 as of Saturday. The daily update from the province reported 1,114 new cases in Saskatchewan and no new deaths. There are 150 people now in hosp...
Jan 15, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
'Not something anyone wanted to hear': Sask. athlete reacts to Winter Games cancellation
Cate Janzen says the cancellation of the Saskatchewan Winter Games is like losing her own Olympics. "It's such a big honour. I know it's not the Olympics but it feels that way. It feels so special to ...
Jan 15, 2022 Cate Janzen. (Jen Janzen/Submitted)
Chain reaction causes backup on Idylwyld
Things got a little wild on Saskatoon's Idylwyld Drive on Friday afternoon. A police vehicle with its lights on appeared to be responding to a crash on Idylwyld heading northbound, leading to signific...
Jan 14, 2022 (Dallas Dahlseide/650 CKOM)
Latest COVID update Jan. 14: 1,412 new cases, 10,325 active cases
The number of people with COVID-19 in Saskatchewan hospitals rose Friday, when the province again set records for daily and active cases. The Ministry of Health's update said there were 1,412 new case...
Jan 14, 2022 (Lisa Schick/650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon man wins $50M on Lotto Max
Saskatoon has another multimillionaire. According to a media release from Sask Lotteries, Dustin Kiefer was about to go into a morning meeting when he saw that someone from Saskatoon had won $50 milli...
Jan 14, 2022 (Sask Lotteries/Submitted)
Private PCR tests recommended: Workers' Compensation Board
A reliance on rapid testing in Saskatchewan has raised the question of how workers presumed COVID-positive can expect to be compensated for their time off without a PCR test. The province has been enc...
Jan 14, 2022 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
No more alarm clocks for 650 CKOM morning host Brent Loucks
Brent Loucks has been waking Saskatoon up for 40 years. Now he's ready to start sleeping in. "Forty years of 4 a.m. is long enough!" Loucks said as he explained his decision to step back from doing th...
Jan 14, 2022
Family holds rally for 9-year-old daughter killed by truck driver
Rochelle Dubois is still waiting for justice after the tragic loss of her nine-year-old daughter Baeleigh Maurice. Maurice was struck by a vehicle while using a crosswalk on the 600 block of 33rd Stre...
Jan 13, 2022
Latest COVID update Jan. 13: 945 new cases, 9,252 active cases
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan has risen by nearly 1,600 per cent over the past month. The Ministry of Health's daily update Thursday showed 9,252 active cases, an increase of 1,5...
Jan 13, 2022
Saskatchewan mixed doubles curler passed over for Olympic spot
Nancy Martin found out on Christmas Day she wouldn't be able to play her way into the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The Saskatoon curler was in the middle of some family time when she received an email that ...
Jan 13, 2022 Nancy Martin and Tyrel Griffiths were ranked third in Canada, according to Curling Canada's Mixed Doubles rankings, released on Dec. 14, 2021. (Twitter/Curling Canada)
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