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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)
‘I left the store in tears’ : Prince Albert mother raises concerns with pandemic policy
By Nigel Maxwell By all accounts, Shannon Halpenny's trip to the grocery store Wednesday night with her seven-year-old son should have been routine, but she says the events that transpired left her sh...
Nov 20, 2020 The Prince Albert Safeway location. (Nigel Maxwell/paNOW Staff)
1 person burned while escaping a house fire in Saskatoon
One person was sent to the hospital after a house fire in Meadowgreen on Thursday night. The Saskatoon Fire Department received a 911 call at 10:40 p.m. reporting smoke coming from a four-plex on the ...
Nov 20, 2020 Four-plex fire on Avenue Y South on November 19th, 2020 (Saskatoon Fire/Submitted)
More snow making for slick roads in Saskatoon and area
As we still try to dig out from the Nov. 8 blizzard, another snowfall is wreaking havoc with the roads. Saskatoon police say they have had reports of 17 collisions in the city since the snow began fal...
Nov 19, 2020 Snow plow on Idylwyld Drive.
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Enchanted Forest set to open with some COVID changes
The BHP Enchanted Forest is set to start welcoming visitors starting Friday evening. The holiday light tour is a special event of the Saskatoon Zoo Foundation and the City Hospital Foundation. City Ho...
Nov 19, 2020 (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Raising awareness on World Pancreatic Cancer Day
It's called a silent killer that often goes undiagnosed until it's too late. Today marks World Pancreatic Cancer Day, and the widow of a well-known Saskatoon man who died from the disease continues to...
Nov 19, 2020 Bruce and Chris Gordon.
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Daughter of 89-year-old in Saskatoon care home worries about quality of care amid COVID-19 outbreak
A 62-year-old Dalmeny area woman has removed her mother from a Saskatoon area care home after she says she became worried about the quality of care she had been receiving over the last few weeks. The ...
Nov 19, 2020
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