Sarah Mills: Teachers deserve gratitude as school year wraps up
There's a collective sigh coming from Saskatchewan's teachers as the school year ends. Sarah Mills says teachers are ask...
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Saskatoon's mayor says goodbye to 2020 and looks forward to 2021
2020 was a year that saw Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark win a second term, a year in which city council faced a deficit of more than $20 million and a year in which budgets had to be reworked over and ...
Jan 01, 2021 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM file photo)
Regina, Saskatoon police prepared for usual New Year's Eve
A quiet New Year's Eve at home doesn't mean much to police in Regina and Saskatoon. Both police services are planning for the usual shenanigans that tend to accompany the day, even with provincial COV...
Dec 31, 2020 A Saskatoon police checkstop on Dec. 31, 2017. (Saskatoon Police Service)
Hot ashes ignite Saskatoon garage fire
Hot ashes were the cause of a New Year's Eve garage fire in Grosvenor Park that caused $75,000 in damage, fire investigators discovered. The Saskatoon Fire Department was called to the home in the 200...
Dec 31, 2020
Celebrate New Year's Eve by making some noise
You can expect to hear plenty of people banging pots and pans as one final, noisy salute to health-care workers in 2020. Saskatoon's four hospital foundations, Saskatoon Fire and Medavie Health Servic...
Dec 31, 2020 Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark thanked frontline workers during the "Saturday Night Clang and Bang" on May 9, 2020. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM file photo)
‘After a week, we thought, 'Gosh, she’s gonna make it' ’: 106-year-old woman beats COVID-19
In her lifetime, Prince Albert's Rubena Wenzel has lived through world wars and now survived two pandemics, the Spanish flu in 1918 and COVID-19 in 2020. Roughly 2 1/2 weeks after her initial positive...
Dec 31, 2020 A recent photo taken of Rubena Wenzel. (Bev Smith/submitted)
Lloydminster nurses share world junior 50/50 jackpot
After a long stressful year on the frontlines battling COVID-19, a group of nurses in Lloydminster is ending 2020 on a high note. The eight women from the maternity unit are sharing $241,850 after win...
Dec 31, 2020 The eight front line health-care workers from Lloydminster that won $241,850 in a World Juniors 50/50. (Twitter/@HC_WJC
RUH COVID unit nurse thankful for vaccination
Mahala Kiss has only been nursing for about a year and a half and most of that time has been in the COVID unit at Royal University Hospital. "I was just starting to get comfortable with nursing and th...
Dec 30, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
No active COVID-19 cases at Luther Special Care Home
Luther Special Care Home is reporting no active COVID-19 cases more than six weeks after an outbreak was declared. The long-term care home provided an update online Sunday saying all residents were co...
Dec 30, 2020 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon company fined $70K after workplace fatality
A Saskatoon company has been fined $70,000 in connection with a fatal workplace incident in October of 2019. Sommer Green Forages pleaded guilty in Outlook Provincial Court on Dec. 17 to a violation u...
Dec 30, 2020
Isolation requirement extended past New Year’s for Sask. Pen. employees
By Nigel Maxwell A public health order requiring all employees at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary to isolate when at home, and not interact with other members of the household, has been extended to Jan....
Dec 30, 2020 Located about one kilometre west of the city of Prince Albert, the Saskatchewan Penitentiary has been in operation since 1911. (paNOW staff)
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