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Rime frost takes over many areas of Sask., making for picturesque view
Many parts of Saskatchewan woke up to quite the scenery Sunday morning. Rime frost has taken over trees and other objects across the province, and Dave Carlsen from Environment Canada explained more a...
Nov 22, 2020 Rime frost set in across Saskatchewan on Nov. 22, 2020. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
COVID cases at schools in Regina and Saskatoon areas
There are more COVID-19 cases at Saskatchewan schools. Lumsden High School will be closing the doors and moving classes online after "several" positive tests. Online classes start Tuesday. In-person c...
Nov 22, 2020 (Google Maps)
Former NHLer Fred Sasakamoose battling COVID-19
Multiple reports on social media indicate Fred Sasakamoose, the first Canadian Indigenous-born athlete to play in the National Hockey League has been admitted to hospital due to COVID-19. A post from ...
Nov 21, 2020 Fred Sasakamoose.
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Concern growing in Martensville as COVID-19 cases rise
People in Martensville, Sask. are beginning to feel uneasy as COVID-19 begins to spread rapidly throughout the community. Mayor Kent Muench said one of the biggest problems is a lack of publicly avail...
Nov 20, 2020 Martensville City Hall (City of Martensville)
Saskatoon police charge man for failing to self-isolate
The Saskatoon police have laid a second charge under the Public Health Act in connection with COVID-19. In a release, police say after an investigation and consultation with public health inspectors, ...
Nov 20, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
STF president calls to suspend hockey as COVID-19 continues to spread
Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation President Patrick Maze is asking for hockey and other recreational activities to cease operations as an added measure to keep COVID-19 cases out of schools across the...
Nov 20, 2020 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM file photo)
Health-care workers reach tentative collective agreement with province
The union representing 11,500 health-care workers in Saskatchewan has reached a tentative agreement with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO). In a release Friday, the provincia...
Nov 20, 2020 Protesting SEIU-West members display a banner outside St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon on pace to break snowfall record in November
A meteorologist with Environment Canada says Saskatoon is on pace to break a long-standing snowfall record for the month of November. Terri Lang says 53 centimetres have already fallen in Saskatoon wi...
Nov 20, 2020 One of many neighbourhood snow piles as a result of digging out of the blizzard of 2020.
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Company fined in connection with worker's death
A Saskatchewan company has been fined $126,000 in connection with a workplace accident that killed a worker in October of 2018. On Oct. 19 of that year in the RM of Corman Park, an employee was killed...
Nov 20, 2020
Saskatoon Buy & Sell posting connects people in need with those who can provide -- for free
She got the idea from a similar post in Lloydminster that became extremely popular, so Saskatoon's Gina Marie Musty thought it might work here as well. She was right. A posting late Tuesday on the Sas...
Nov 20, 2020 (Gina Marie Musty/Facebook)
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