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Former Prince Albert Bishop passes away
By Nigel Maxwell Prince Albert's Catholic community is in mourning following the loss of the city's former bishop, Albert Thvenot A letter on Monday from the city's current bishop, Rev. Stephen A. Her...
Apr 15, 2025 A picture taken of Rev. Albert Thévenot in 2020. (Submitted Photo/Roman Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert)
RCMP searching for man who escaped Besnard Lake Correctional Centre
Police in Saskatchewan are asking members of the public to keep an eye out for a 26-year-old man who escaped from a provincial correctional centre. According to the RCMP, Kobe Kiseyinewakup was last s...
Apr 15, 2025 Kobe Kiseyinewakup, 26, was described as five-foot-six and 135 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. (Saskatchewan RCMP/Submitted)
'True needle exchange' behind fewer needles this spring: Saskatoon fire
It's time to start spring cleaning and for most people, that means cleaning up their house or maybe their shed. But for Saskatoon firefighters, it means picking up abandoned needles that are littered ...
Apr 14, 2025 Saskatoon firefighters have begun picking up needles littered across the city. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon Police Briefs: Teens, stabbings, multiple guns and robberies
Two 16-year-old boys were arrested Friday night after the Saskatoon police were called due to a fight.At 11:30 p.m., a call was received about "three youth had been observed fighting and one of them h...
Apr 14, 2025 Friday's incident had the Saskatoon Police service attending a call at 22nd Street East and 1st Avenue North, while police responded on Saturday to the 2300 block of 33rd Street West and at 33rd Street and Spadina Crescent East near the Weir. On Sunday, officers were attending a call at the intersection of Attridge Drive and Circle Drive and in the late evening to the 800 block of Idylwyld Drive North. (Céline Grimard/650 CKOM)
Sask. expands rural health recruitment incentive to 16 more communities
The Government of Saskatchewan is expanding a health-care recruitment program to 16 more communities around the province. The Rural and Remote Recruitment Incentive offers up to $50,000 to new, full-t...
Apr 14, 2025 The program is being expanded to include Arborfield, Balcarres, Beechy, Candle Lake, Carrot River, Central Butte, Cut Knife, Elrose, Foam Lake, Grenfell, Kerrobert, Maryfield, Pinehouse Lake, Raymore, Spiritwood and Wakaw. (Céline Grimard/650 CKOM)
'It's crazy': Saskatoon firefighter says bear spray keeping first responders busy
Assaults involving bear spray are a big issue in Saskatoon, and the stinging spray is causing problems not only for the public, but for first responders as well. The Saskatoon Police Service said a wo...
Apr 14, 2025 Saskatoon firefighter Jay Protz says the fact that bear spray is both legal and readily available is part of the reason why the city is seeing the stinging spray used in so many assaults. (650 CKOM file photo)
More security, renovations among changes at Saskatoon public libraries
Two Saskatoon library branches, closed to the public since March 22, will start the process of re-opening to the public today. The downtown Frances Morrison and the 20th Street Dr. Freda Ahenakew publ...
Apr 14, 2025 The downtown Frances Morrison and the 20th Street Dr. Freda Ahenakew public libraries were closed on March 22 after a sharp increase in public safety and staff concerns and a rise in the number of drug overdoses both inside and outside the buildings. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
How to keep kids safe: Preventing impaired driving tragedies in Sask.
Drinking and driving is known as a taboo - yet still 32 people die every year in Saskatchewan due to it. Recently, Brittany Barry, a 32-year-old from the RM of Blucher, mother of two, was driving on h...
Apr 13, 2025 A vehicle driving unreasonably fast could be an indicator for impaired driving according to SGI. (Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan/Twitter)
Video: Flooding emergency lifted in in Aberdeen
The Town of Aberdeen northeast of Saskatoon declared a state of emergency due to flooding on Saturday. The town council said in a social media post that water was collecting within the town limits and...
Apr 13, 2025 Water pooling on the outskirts of Aberdeen on Sunday after three feet of water flooded residential streets in the town on Saturday. (Will Mandzuk/650CKOM)
STARS radiothon raises more than $565,000 for critical care service
University of Saskatchewan Agricultural Students' Association donated a remarkable $130,000 to STARS Critical Care on the Air Radiothon in early April. The donation was part of a two-day radiothon tha...
Apr 13, 2025 Since 1985, STARS air ambulance service has grown from a single helicopter to a network of highly skilled professionals providing providing critical medical care in the air, on the ground, or virtually for patients in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across Western Canada (STARS/X)
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