Sarah Mills: LEGO is for everyone, but only the rich can afford the bigger sets
Sarah Mills has a bone to pick with LEGO. A lot of the newer and more complex sets are geared towards adults, but the pr...
Category Archives: Local News
Council committee supports $250,000 request from VIDO-InterVac
Saskatoon's VIDO-InterVac research facility could soon be getting a $250,000 cash injection from the city. At Monday's governance and priorities committee meeting, city councillors voted unanimously t...
Feb 16, 2021 Dr. Volker Gerdts, director of VIDO. (University of Saskatchewan)
Saskatchewan billionaire, Prince Albert’s Michelle Zatlyn, becomes Wall Street tech titan
By Glenn Hicks It has been 17 months since Prince Albert's Michelle Zatlyn spoke to us after she and co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange following the hugely...
Feb 16, 2021 Prince Albert raised Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder, president and COO of Cloudflare.
(Photo submitted/Cloudflare)
Water main break causes road closure at 8th Street East, McKercher Drive
The cold weather is wreaking havoc on at least one main road in Saskatoon. Just before 7 p.m. Monday, Saskatoon police advised the public that a water main break is causing a road closure on the south...
Feb 16, 2021
Saskatoon police dog Oliver returns to work following stabbing incident
Saskatoon's canine hero is back on the job. According to a tweet from Saskatoon police Monday, police dog Oliver has returned to work just 12 days following a stabbing incident that led to surgery at ...
Feb 15, 2021 Police dog Oliver is back on the job in Saskatoon following a stabbing incident at the beginning of February. (Twitter/Saskatoon Police Service)
Latest COVID update Feb. 15: 143 cases, details scaled back for Family Day
The Family Day long weekend scaled back the amount of details available in Monday's COVID update. In a news release, the Ministry of Health reported 143 new cases of the virus, but no data was availab...
Feb 15, 2021
Saskatoon police looking for suspects following early-morning shooting
A shooting just off 22nd Street West Sunday morning has police on the lookout for two suspects. According to a release Sunday, officers were called to the 100 block of Avenue U South for a report of a...
Feb 14, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Latest COVID update Feb. 14: No new deaths, active case load drops
No COVID-related deaths were reported in Saskatchewan Sunday, the second time in four days the province hasn't registered a death from the virus. In a news release, the Ministry of Health also reveale...
Feb 14, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
Community of Bradwell hosting local radio show to raise funds for Telemiracle
Typically, the small Saskatchewan community of Bradwell hosts a physical fundraiser annually in support of Telemiracle. But like many things over the past year, the 2021 edition will be different. Ins...
Feb 14, 2021 The community of Bradwell has created a local radio show for its Telemiracle fundraiser for 2021. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Dog dies in early-morning Confederation-area garage fire
A blaze in the Confederation neighbourhood area in Saskatoon has claimed the life of a family's dog. Saturday night, fire crews were called to the 100 block of Cartier Crescent, just west of the inter...
Feb 14, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
New adult mental health unit opens in Saskatoon
A new short-stay mental health unit is now open in Saskatoon. The Saskatchewan Health Authority announced the opening of the new seven-bed unit at Royal University Hospital earlier this week. The new ...
Feb 13, 2021
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Murray Wood: Some suggestions for those considering western separation
Talk of western separation is nothing new, but as long as we're dividing up the country, why don't we split some cities ...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 13
North America's measles outbreak, a nondiet approach to health, Carney's new cabinet, Chief Cam McBride and should palli...
