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SaskTel Centre to unveil new Jumbotron at Rush game Saturday
Out with the old, in with the new. Sask Entertainment Group (SEG), which owns the Saskatchewan Rush and Saskatoon Blades, will unveil a new video scoreboard at SaskTel Centre on Saturday. "We knew it ...
Feb 25, 2022
Saskatoon police chief offers update on officer-involved shooting
Saskatoon Police Service Chief Troy Cooper provided a bit more information Thursday about the officer-involved shooting of a 35-year-old man that occurred Wednesday. According to a media release issue...
Feb 24, 2022 Saskatoon Police Chief Troy Cooper. (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon Ukrainian community held rally in support of country
Several dozen people were at Saskatoon City Hall in the bitter cold early Wednesday evening to show their support for Ukraine. The rally, held by the Saskatoon Chapter of the Ukrainian Canadian Congre...
Feb 24, 2022 Saskatoon's Ukrainian community holds a rally at Saskatoon City Hall on Feb. 23, 2022. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Sturgeon Lake celebrates first midwife-assisted birth in over 50 years
By Jaryn Vecchio It took more than 50 years, but Sturgeon Lake First Nation is celebrating another midwife-assisted birth. Ashley Rabbitskin officially welcomed her son Kaleo on Wednesday at 7:01 a.m....
Feb 24, 2022 (Submitted Photo/Norma Rabbitskin)
Rush acquire goaltender Eric Penney from Philadelphia
The Saskatchewan Rush made a trade on Wednesday. The club has traded the 23rd overall pick in the 2022 National Lacrosse League (NLL) Entry Draft to the Philadelphia Wings in exchange for goaltender E...
Feb 24, 2022
'I am nervous, not worried:' Saskatoon man from Ukraine offers insight into conflict
Vitalyy Kushnir has lived in Canada for the past 15 years. Before that, he spent the first 35 years of his life in the western part of Ukraine. Now, the Saskatoon resident is watching as his native co...
Feb 23, 2022 Vitalyy Kushnir and his family. (Submitted)
Man sent to hospital after officer-involved shooting: Saskatoon police
Saskatoon police say officers were involved in a shooting early Wednesday afternoon on the city's west side. According to a media release, police got a call at around 11:30 a.m., about a fight at a ho...
Feb 23, 2022 (Submitted)
Saskatoon company fundraising to give teachers free masks
A Saskatoon company that has been supplying masks to schools during the COVID-19 pandemic says it wants to give back to some of its best customers. Benchmark PPE has launched a fundraiser for teachers...
Feb 23, 2022 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Extreme cold warnings remain in place across Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan residents who visited Environment Canada's alerts page were seeing red early Wednesday morning. The weather service splits the province into 32 regions for its alerts, and all 32 were und...
Feb 23, 2022
Library branches closed after staff face incidents of abuse, union says
Two library branches in Saskatoon recently moved to contactless service after instances of both physical and verbal abuse against patrons and staff. "We do know that there have been incidents of patro...
Feb 23, 2022 The downtown Frances Morrison Library, and the Dr. Freda Ahenakew Library on Avenue K South will remain closed to the public until April 13. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
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