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Saskatoon Fire Department ready to keep the city safe over the holidays
As we get closer to Christmas Day, the Saskatoon Fire Department is prepared to answer your call. "There'll be some additional challenges and some sacrifices by us all in order to get safely through t...
Dec 23, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon man charged with assaulting cops
A call about a domestic dispute ended with a man in custody, charged with assaulting police. According to a media release, officers with the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) were called to a domestic di...
Dec 23, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
Church break-ins, thefts on the rise in 2020
The RCMP says criminals have been targeting churches across the province in 2020. In a media release Wednesday, the RCMP's crime prevention/crime reduction unit indicates that a pattern has emerged sh...
Dec 23, 2020 Dundurn United Church. (Town of Dundurn)
VIDO-Intervac gets green light to begin COVID-19 clinical trials
VIDO-Intervac's COVID-19 vaccine has cleared another milestone. The research facility at the University of Saskatchewan was given the green light from Health Canada to begin its Phase 1 clinical trial...
Dec 23, 2020 Dr. Volker Gerdts, director of VIDO. (University of Saskatchewan)
Maintaining your mental health over the COVID holidays
The holiday season in 2020 is unlike anything we've experienced in the past. Zoom calls may be replacing old traditions in your home and you may feel uncomfortable about it all, but that's O.K., accor...
Dec 22, 2020
'A piece of nostalgia:' WDM's over 30-year-old Eaton's Christmas exhibit still drawing crowds
A lot of the world has changed this past year, but one thing you can count on to not change is the Eaton's exhibit at Saskatoon's Western Development Museum (WDM). Now in its 33rd year on display, the...
Dec 22, 2020 The 'Eaton's Once Upon A Christmas' display at the Saskatoon WDM, pictured on Dec. 22, 2020. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
COVID vaccine arrives in Saskatoon; health-care workers get first doses
A week to the day after the first COVID vaccines were administered to health-care workers in Regina, it is now Saskatoon's turn. On Tuesday afternoon, three health-care workers received the vaccine in...
Dec 22, 2020 (Matt Smith/Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
Latest COVID update Dec. 22: 3 death, 181 new cases
The COVID-19-related death toll in Saskatchewan has increased by three. The daily update from the province includes three deaths; all are in the 80-and-over age range, with two from the Regina ...
Dec 22, 2020
Fatal crash west of Prince Albert claims two lives, two others sent to hospital
RCMP confirmed a man and a young boy were killed when their car collided head-on with a truck, west of Prince Albert Monday evening. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene on Highway 3 shortl...
Dec 22, 2020
Saskatoon man spreads Christmas cheer to 15 families
Joel Pedersen wanted to do his part to make Christmas special this year for families needing extra help because of COVID-19. Pedersen is the founder of Fitness 2J2, a health and wellness company based...
Dec 22, 2020 Joel Pedersen drops off a bag of gifts for a family in Saskatoon on December 19th, 2020 (Twitter)
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