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Vandalism, gunshots lead to drug bust in Evergreen
Saskatoon Police have charged one man with numerous drug-related charges after vehicles were damaged and a gun was fired in Evergreen on Tuesday. Officers were called to the 200 block of Akhtar bend w...
Sep 16, 2020 (650 CKOM file photo)
Saskatoon city council gives green light to downtown safety and well-being pilot project
A downtown Saskatoon safety and wellness pilot project - led by the Saskatoon Tribal Council - has been given the green light and $200,000 in funding. Half of the money will come from the city's Munic...
Sep 16, 2020 (650 CKOM)
Saskatchewan team sent to Washington, Oregon to assist in wildfire battle
Saskatchewan has lent a helping hand to those battling blazes in the United States. According to the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency's (SPSA) director of communications, Christopher Clemett, the eig...
Sep 16, 2020
NDP hopes to ban private health services, increase investment in health
The Saskatchewan NDP is hoping to reform the provincial health-care system. The party announced a new policy Wednesday entitled The Saskatchewan Medicare Protection Act. A major change it lists is ban...
Sep 16, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili and NDP Health Critic Vicki Mowat speaking on their plans for health-care changes on Sept. 16, 2020. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
Program launched to train female transport truck drivers in Sask.
The Government of Saskatchewan has launched a new pilot program for women who want training to become transport drivers. In a release, the province says, the program, called Women Shifting Gears, is a...
Sep 16, 2020 (Rennett Stowe/Wikimedia Commons)
Long lost recordings by Joni Mitchell discovered in B.C. basement
A piece of music history thought to be lost forever has found the light of day more than five decades later. In 1963, a then-unknown Joni Mitchell was playing in coffee houses in Saskatoon when she vi...
Sep 16, 2020 Gillian Snider and her band perform in the Persephone Theatre lobby before unveiling a plaque on Joni Mitchell Promenade on June 10, 2018. (Keenan Sorokan/ 650 CKOM)
Health authority warns of potential COVID-19 exposure at baseball games
The Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority is advising the public that an individual who later tested positive for COVID-19 took part in a recent baseball tournament in Shoal Lake. The authority said ...
Sep 16, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
'We have a real concern:' city sees 50% spike in arson incidents this year
The Saskatoon Fire Department is concerned about the spike in arson cases this year. On Sunday night, a metal shop on Avenue I South sustained $750,000 damage after it was intentionally lit on fire. T...
Sep 16, 2020 Arson was the cause of a commercial fire on Avenue I South on September 13, 2020.
(Saskatoon Fire Department/Submitted photo)
SPS civilian member tests positive for COVID-19
A civilian member of the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) has tested positive for COVID-19. SPS confirmed the positive case to 650 CKOM Wednesday morning. The individual received the positive diagnosis ...
Sep 16, 2020
Potential COVID-19 exposures at Sask. businesses
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is letting the public know that a person who tested positive for COVID-19, visited businesses in Saskatoon, Wynyard and Foam Lake earlier this month. The busine...
Sep 15, 2020 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
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