Murray Wood: Arrest in 2001 Saskatoon assault case should make perpetrators worried
A 52-year-old man has been charged in connection with a 2001 sexual assault allegation in Saskatoon. Murray Wood says he...
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Fire in boarded-up 20th Street West home deemed suspicious
A home near St Paul's Hospital was gutted by fire early Tuesday morning. A neighbour spotted flames and smoke coming from the boarded-up home on 20th Street West around 3:30 a.m. and called the fire d...
May 28, 2019 Fire officials say a blaze at 2015 20th Street West on May 28, 2019 is suspicious. (Saskatoon Fire Department)
Dozens of charges laid in Saskatoon crystal meth bust
A crystal meth trafficking investigation has resulted in 40 charges for five people. Several Saskatoon police units and RCMP executed search warrants May 23 at a storage facility on 45th Street West, ...
May 28, 2019 A trafficking investigation led to the seizure of 10 kilograms of crystal meth, weapons and cash in the Saskatoon area on May 23, 2019. (Saskatoon Police Service)
Saskatoon's Station Place restaurant to close in June
An institution in Saskatoon's restaurant scene will close its doors late next month. Station Place has occupied the former railway station at 221 Idylwyld Dr. N., since it was opened by the Arvanitis ...
May 27, 2019 A sign announcing Saskatoon's Station Place restaurant will close effective June 27, 2019. (Brent Loucks/650 CKOM)
Police say impaired driver hit 6 parked cars, damaged home
Saskatoon police say an impaired driver was brought to their detention cells to sober up after a collision early Monday morning. Officers went to the scene of the crash on the 300 block of Forrester R...
May 27, 2019 (650 CKOM file photo)
Man found hurt on Meewasin Trail dies in hospital
Saskatoon police are investigating the suspicious death of a 36-year-old man on Sunday evening. Around 6:45 p.m., patrol officers and paramedics responded to a pedestrian bridge along the Meewasin Tra...
May 27, 2019 The pedestrian bridge along the Meewasin Trail near 24th Street and Spadina Crescent where the man was found injured. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
8-year prison sentence given for 2017 downtown shootout
Mike Arcand has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his actions in a shootout in downtown Saskatoon. Arcand, 35, stood silently at Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench on Friday as Justice Jeff Ka...
May 24, 2019 Michael Andrew Arcand, 34, allegedly fired a makeshift shotgun at officers before he was shot by police and arrested in downtown Saskatoon on Sept. 27, 2017. (Submitted photo)
Saskatoon gets federal flood money
Saskatoon's most flood-prone areas are getting some much-needed help. The federal government is contributing $21.6 million to a flood-control strategy through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fu...
May 24, 2019 People are spotted swimming along Dufferin Avenue in Saskatoon after heavy rain pounded the city on July 10, 2017. (Gregory Power/Twitter)
13-year-old girl arrested over Pleasant Hill Park attack
A teenaged girl has been arrested in connection with the beating of a 33-year-old mother in Pleasant Hill Park on Monday night. Saskatoon police said in a release Friday that they had arrested a 13-ye...
May 24, 2019 Pleasant Hill Park in Saskatoon on May 22, 2019. Witnesses say they saw a woman attacked by a group of children in the park on May 20. (Bryn Levy/650 CKOM)
Residents praise alarm system in Lakeview apartment fire
Residents getting ready for work were rushed out the door sooner from their Lakeview apartment building Friday morning. Shortly after 8 a.m. Dustin Sinclair woke up to alarms sounding and heavy smoke ...
May 24, 2019 A fire forced residents to evacuate a Lakeview apartment on Stillwater Drive on May 24, 2019 (Brent Bosker/CKOM News)
Storage shed fires keep Saskatoon fire crews busy
Investigators are trying to figure out how a fire sparked up in Saskatoon's Pleasant Hill neighbourhood Thursday. Fire crews were called to around 4:00 p.m. after multiple sheds had gone up in flames ...
May 24, 2019 Saskatoon fire crews worked to contain a blaze on Avenue T South on May 23, 2019. (Submitted/Saskatoon fire)
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