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Saskatoon police investigate after two people stabbed
Saskatoon police are investigating after two people came in to St. Paul's Hospital Wednesday night with stab wounds. Police were called out to the hospital just after 7 p.m. with a report of a 35-year...
Oct 25, 2018
Saskatoon STARS team wins international competition
Flight nurse Jenny Thorpe and flight paramedic Matt Hogan have won a prestigious award for their performance at an international skills competition. The members of Saskatoon's STARS Air Ambulance crew...
Oct 24, 2018 STARS flight nurse Jenny Thorpe (left) and STARS flight paramedic Matt Hogan (right) took home first place at an international competition Oct. 23, 2018. (STARS Air Ambulance/submitted)
Police deliver letters warning illegal pot shops
One week ago recreational cannabis became legal in Canada, and now the Saskatoon Police Vice Unit is looking into businesses that might not be on the "up and up." On Wednesday a letter was delivered t...
Oct 24, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
Downtown arena generates buzz at public forum
Should Saskatoon build a new arena downtown? It's a question that's been plaguing the city for years, and a query posed to a gathering hosted by CBC Tuesday night at the Remai Modern. SaskTel Centre w...
Oct 24, 2018 People lining up to enter Sasktel Centre on Oct. 29, 2017. (Celine Grimard/650CKOM)
Scheduling conflict cancels NBL exhibition game
The National Basketball League of Canada's introduction to Saskatchewan will have to wait. The exhibition game, Nov. 2 at Merlis Belsher Place between the London Lightning and Halifax Hurricanes, has ...
Oct 24, 2018 National Basketball League of Canada logo
City hall aims for 4.5% property tax hike in 2019 prelim budget
A growing city needs more services and more policing, and a way to pay for it. That's the message in the City of Saskatoon's preliminary 2019 budget released Wednesday morning with a proposed property...
Oct 24, 2018 The City of Saskatoon's proposed 2019 budget would include a 4.5 per cent property tax increase. City council will determine the final increase, if any, after deliberations in late November.
Saskatoon police seek mugging suspects
Saskatoon police are asking for information on a pair of street robberies reported Monday night. The two men were said to be wearing balaclavas and riding bicycles, allegedly brandished a gun, while r...
Oct 23, 2018 (650 CKOM file photo)
Experts set to dig in on Saskatoon's downtown arena debate
Panelists and guests will gather Tuesday at the Remai Modern for a forum on whether Saskatoon should build a downtown arena. "We need to come up with a strategy to position our arena, and also our con...
Oct 23, 2018 (Tourism Saskatoon/ Twitter)
Curbside organics program approved, funding still up in air
Saskatoon will be implementing a curbside organics collection program, but how it will be funded is still to be decided. City council voted 7-4 Monday afternoon in favour of supplying green carts to h...
Oct 22, 2018 A City of Saskatoon breakdown of what could be diverted into a green organics bin. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Organizers ramp up 4 Nations Cup preparations
The 4 Nations Cup is almost here, Saskatoon. With a little more than two weeks until the top four international women's hockey teams descend upon Sasktel Centre, organizers wanted to make attending ga...
Oct 22, 2018 (Team Canada/Twitter)
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