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WATCH: Saskatoon police plane tracks down speeding suspects
The Saskatoon Police Service Air Support Unit is flying overtime this week. The police plane took off Tuesday morning to assist in the manhunt for Myles Sanderson, the suspect wanted in connection to ...
Sep 07, 2022 Saskatoon Police Air Support Unit (@SPSAir1/Twitter)
Sask. government launches plan to expand health-care workforce
The Saskatchewan government has launched a plan it hopes will add more than 1,000 employees to its health-care system. The plan, dubbed the Health Human Resources Action Plan, was included in the 2022...
Sep 07, 2022
Bank of Canada raises key interest rate by 0.75 per cent
The cost to borrow money in Canada is getting more expensive. The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 3.25 per cent Wednesday morning. The move ...
Sep 07, 2022 (File photo/650 CKOM)
James Smith Cree Nation GoFundMe expected to close after smashing fundraising goal
A successful GoFundMe page that has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the victims and victims' families of the stabbing rampage in Weldon and James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) is now being followed...
Sep 07, 2022 James Smith Cree Nation. (Brent Bosker650 CKOM)
Weldon mayor grateful for support, requests community be left alone to grieve
By Nigel Maxwell The mayor of Weldon says the tragic events of this past weekend have shaken the community to its core. Among the 10 people killed in Sunday's attacks was 77-year-old Wes Petterson. Ou...
Sep 07, 2022 (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
'He may no longer be in this community,' Bray says of Myles Sanderson
For two days, the Regina Police Service operated on the assumption that murder suspect Myles Sanderson was in the Queen City. That no longer appears to be the case. "Early on Sunday, we had informatio...
Sep 06, 2022
STC calling for donations for James Smith Cree Nation families
It has been an emotional couple of days for residents of the James Smith Cree Nation after the mass murder over the weekend. Now many are left without a home after they fled for safety as the situatio...
Sep 06, 2022 Saskatoon Tribal Council Tribal Chief Mark Arcand asks for donations to help those who fled James Smith Cree Nation for safety. (Steve Seto/650 CKOM)
Multiple resources and tools regularly used by police in search for suspects
It has been a tense situation in the areas of Weldon and the James Smith Cree Nation over the past couple of days since the murders of 10 people. People have been emotionally shaken after the events a...
Sep 06, 2022
RCMP's Blackmore offers details on search for Myles Sanderson
A false alarm interrupted the manhunt for Myles Sanderson on Tuesday. At 11:40 a.m., the RCMP issued an updated dangerous persons alert saying Sanderson - the suspect in nine murders on the James Smit...
Sep 06, 2022
James Smith Cree Nation residents hope Sanderson will turn himself in
Darryl Burns had a message for Myles Sanderson late Monday afternoon. "If Myles is hearing this, give yourself up, bud," Burns told Global News. "There's a lot of people back here that are hurting and...
Sep 06, 2022 James Smith Cree Nation. (Brent Bosker650 CKOM)
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