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RCMP search for dark-coloured truck and tan brown van after Hwy 3 robbery
Maidstone RCMP are investigating a serious robbery on Highway 3 that occurred Sunday morning. Police received a report of a robbery with a firearm in the RM of Britannia near the Paradise Hill and Fre...
Oct 12, 2021 (650 CKOM files)
Pharmacists endorse 2021 flu shot campaign
Pharmacists in the province are supporting this year's flu shot campaign. As part of the province's health care team, pharmacists are able to administer influenza vaccines to Saskatchewan residents an...
Oct 12, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Drug charges laid against four after Saskatoon police seize 1796 grams of cocaine
Four men are facing charges after an investigation into cocaine trafficking. The Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) Drug Unit has charged four men between the ages of 22 and 28 who were arrested after two...
Oct 12, 2021 (Saskatoon Police Service/Submitted)
Latest COVID update Oct. 12: 271 cases, lowest daily count since Tuesday
A total of 271 cases were reported in Saskatchewan Tuesday, the lowest in a week since 242 were reported on Oct. 5. There are 4,450 cases currently active in Saskatchewan. Two new deaths were also rep...
Oct 12, 2021
Thanksgiving brought first significant Sask. snowfall of the year
Some people in Saskatchewan earned their pumpkin pie calories by shoveling snow on Thanksgiving. According to Environment Canada, localized snow fell in between North Battleford and Meadow Lake and up...
Oct 12, 2021 Snow at Turtle Lake on Oct 11th, 2021.
Submitted/Les Rens
17-year-old injured in hospital after serious incident
RCMP is investigating after a 17-year-old man from the Onion Lake area was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The man was located near Pipestone Creek Road on Onion Lake First Nation around noon...
Oct 12, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Prince Albert outlaws plastic bags
By Derek Craddock Plastic checkout bags are a thing of the past in Prince Albert. The city's ban on the plastic bags too effect on Monday, nearly two years after the bylaw was originally passed by cou...
Oct 12, 2021 plastic bags, recycle
'I cannot even explain how I feel:' Afghan woman escapes Taliban, arrives in Saskatoon
Zahrah Shirdel and Farkhonda Tahery's lives changed when the Taliban took over Afghanistan in late August, after the departure of American soldiers who'd been stationed in the country for the past two...
Oct 12, 2021 Zahrah Shirdel in her room at the Staybridge Suites in Saskatoon on Oct. 5, 2021. Shirdel and Tahery recently immigrated to Canada with the help of Prince's Trust Canada after the Taliban seized control of the country in August. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Saskatchewan sees first snowfall of the season
It may have not stuck around for long, but snow did hit the ground in Saskatchewan's northwest Sunday. According to Environment Canada's Chris Stammers, one or two centimetres hit the ground overnight...
Oct 11, 2021 A look at the snowfall overnight at Jackfish golf course, north of North Battleford. Pictured on Oct. 11, 2021. (Jackfish Lodge Golf and Conference Center/Facebook)
'Our infrastructure is failing:' After over 50 years, Elmwood prepares residents moving to new homes
All 30 residents at Elmwood Residences will be moving within the next three to five years. The group home for those with intellectual disabilities will be closing its Kinsmen Manor doors within that t...
Oct 11, 2021 Elmwood Kinsmen Manor. (Google Maps)
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