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Man arrested following Dangerous Person Alert in Meadow Lake
A Dangerous Person Alert issued by Meadow Lake RCMP was cancelled shortly before 3 p.m. today. RCMP arrested one adult male. The investigation is ongoing. Police said they would provide more informati...
Mar 10, 2021
'A recipe for disaster:' SUN responds to COVID rule loosening, new variants
Tracy Zambory didn't hold back her thoughts on the changes to Saskatchewan's health orders that were announced Tuesday. The president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) said upon hearing the ne...
Mar 10, 2021 Nurse Leah Sawatsky receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 15, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Sask. residents 85 and over can book COVID vaccinations starting Thursday
Saskatchewan's booking system for COVID-19 vaccination appointments is ready for launch. Starting Thursday at 8 a.m., people in the province aged 85 and over will be able to book COVID vaccine appoint...
Mar 10, 2021 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (File photo/Submitted)
Swift Current girl thrilled with haul from pop star Halsey
Remember the sweet seven-year-old from Swift Current who caught the eye of Halsey on TikTok and was awaiting a care package from the pop star? On Tuesday, Bella Thomson got her gift in the mail. https...
Mar 10, 2021 (Photo courtesy of Kyla Thomson)
2 hurt in crash following chase on the Broadway Bridge
Two people are in hospital following a single-vehicle crash that shut down the Broadway Bridge and snarled the morning commute on Wednesday. At approximately 1:40 a.m., Saskatoon police officers obser...
Mar 10, 2021 Fire crews used hydraulic cutting tools to free two people from a car that crashed near the Broadway Bridge on March 10th, 2021 (Saskatoon Fire)
NDP calls for 'serious action' to be taken by province in response to overdose crisis
On a busy 20th Street in Saskatoon on Tuesday, NDP Leader Ryan Meili outlined a list of calls towards the provincial government, all centred around the overdose crisis in the province. Meili was joine...
Mar 09, 2021 NDP Leader Ryan Meili speaks at a media conference in front of Prairie Harm Reduction in Saskatoon on March 9, 2021. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon mother looking for stolen adaptive bike after Mayfair theft
It has been a tough month for Tobi-Dawne Smith and her family. On Feb. 7, the family home on the 1200 block of Avenue D North was destroyed by a fire in the early-morning hours. It also claimed the li...
Mar 08, 2021 (Tobi-Dawne Smith/Facebook)
YWCA program gets a boost from Saskatoon family on International Women's Day
The Turning Points program at Saskatoon's YWCA got some help from the family of a former educator and social worker Monday. Bonnie Gitzel and her family donated $100,000 to the program, which annually...
Mar 08, 2021 Bonnie Gitzel, pictured on the left with her daughter Bailey, and her family donated $100,000 to the YWCA's Turning Points program on International Women's Day, March 8, 2021. (Facebook/YWCA Saskatoon)
12-year-old snowboarder hangs on for dear life at Table Mountain
Kaelah Gratton has a slightly different view of a Facebook video that's making the rounds. The video posted Saturday shows a young snowboarder dangling for almost two minutes from the chairlift at Tab...
Mar 08, 2021 12-year-old Liam Gratton had a snowboarding experience he won't forget after slipping off the chairlift at Table Mountain Regional Park on March 6, 2021. (Aaron Arcand/Facebook)
A look into the COVID testing site in Saskatoon
Flash back a year's time and the thought of a mass testing site for a viral disease sweeping across the globe may have sounded more like a plot for an upcoming movie. Well, it has become the reality, ...
Mar 08, 2021 Saskatoon's COVID-19 drive-through testing site. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
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