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What you need to know about camping in Saskatchewan in 2020
Saskatchewan campgrounds will be allowed to open this summer, but campers will have to deal with many restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19. Online reservations for sites began Monday. They al...
May 04, 2020
Saskatoon man charged after laser pointed at police airplane
A 30-year-old Saskatoon man is facing a mischief charge after he allegedly pointed a green laser at the Saskatoon Police Service's Air Support Unit on Sunday night. According to the police, the incide...
May 04, 2020 (SPS Air Support Unit/Twitter)
Mayfair Hardware closing after more than 70 years in business
Saskatoon is losing a piece of retail history. Mayfair Hardware on 33rd Street is closing up shop after a seven-decade run serving the community. "On behalf of Bruce Thomas, owner of Mayfair Hardware,...
May 04, 2020 Many customers looking to support Mayfair Hardware for the final time lined around the store on May 4, 2020. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Fire crews deal with blaze inside boarded up Pleasant Hill home
Saskatoon fire crews extinguished a blaze at a boarded-up home in Pleasant Hill on Sunday. The Saskatoon Fire Department received a report of heavy black smoke exiting the back of the vacant home just...
May 03, 2020 Crews were called Sunday, May 3, 2020 to a vacant home on the 400 block of Ave. S South. (Saskatoon Fire Department)
Man facing charges after alleged machete attack sends one man to hospital
A Saskatoon man is facing charges of aggravated assault and breach of a court order after an apparent machete attack Saturday. Saskatoon police were called to the Broadway Avenue and 1st Street area o...
May 03, 2020 (650 CKOM)
London Drugs stores offering shelf space to struggling small businesses shut down by COVID-19
Local small businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic can apply to sell their products at London Drugs stores. The pharmacy was deemed essential and wanted to do something to help struggling small ...
May 03, 2020 (Sheena Roszell/ 650 CKOM)
Interpreter keeping the deaf and hard of hearing in Sask. informed during COVID-19 pandemic
For those tuning in to the provincial government's daily COVID-19 new conferences, Karen Nurkowski is becoming a familiar face. Nurkowski has been interpreting the briefings into American Sign Languag...
May 02, 2020 Karen Nurkowski has been interpreting the Saskatchewan COVID-19 news conferences into American Sign Language for the deaf and hard of hearing in the province.
(Karen Nurkowski/Facebook)
City to redeploy recreation staff as physical distancing ambassadors
The City of Saskatoon is expressing concern about too many people gathering in public places amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayor Charlie Clark says with the warm weather back, city officials have been s...
May 01, 2020 (Silverwood Heights Community Association/Facebook)
New elementary school planned for west Saskatoon to replace three ageing facilities
Saskatoon Public Schools has been asking the province for capital funding for repairs and upgrades for at least one west Saskatoon elementary school for the last 24 years. Until this past March, no fu...
May 01, 2020
RCMP institute new protocols in light of COVID-19 outbreak
RCMP officers have been dealing with infectious disease concerns on the job for decades, whether it's hepatitis, HIV or other illnesses. As part of their job, police still have to get close to people ...
May 01, 2020
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