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Crop report shows harvest well ahead of average, dry conditions posing fire risk
Harvest has begun in Saskatchewan, with this week's crop report showing three per cent of the crop now combined. This is well ahead of the five-year average of one per cent harvested by this time of y...
Aug 05, 2021
Damning report points to numerous problems in deadly Parkside COVID outbreak
Last winter, residents at Parkside Extendicare in Regina endured the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak a Saskatchewan car home has seen, where only four residents didn't catch the virus, and 39 died. A repo...
Aug 05, 2021 Parkside Extendicare in Regina. (Kevin Martel/980 CJME)
Woman dead in lone vehicle rollover near La Loche
A woman is dead after a single-vehicle rollover near La Loche. La Loche RCMP was dispatched to the scene on Highway 155, around 2 kilometres south of the village -- around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. The wom...
Aug 05, 2021
Investigation to be released into COVID outbreak at Parkside Extendicare
Some questions could be answered Thursday morning around the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak at a Saskatchewan care home. An outbreak was declared last fall at Parkside Extendicare in Regina and it raged ...
Aug 05, 2021
Interim benefit increased to aid farmers facing drought losses
Producers in the province will be seeing a 50 per cent increase in their AgriStability interim benefit payment this year. To help support farmers who have been impacted by drought conditions in Saskat...
Aug 04, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
RCMP searching for male suspect in attempted sexual assault near provincial park
Saskatchewan RCMP are trying to locate a man suspected of attempted sexual assault The attempted assault occurred near Meadow Lake Provincial Park, at Highway 224 and Highway 950 in northwest Saskatch...
Aug 04, 2021 (650 CKOM file photo)
Latest COVID update Aug. 4: 60 new cases, 1 new death reported
Saskatchewan posted 60 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, bringing the total active cases in the province to 483. One new death was reported due to the virus, in the northwest zone -- the first death re...
Aug 04, 2021
Latest COVID update Aug. 4: 60 new cases, 1 new death reported
Saskatchewan posted 60 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, bringing the total active cases in the province to 483. One new death was reported due to the virus, in the northwest zone. There were 1,057 new...
Aug 04, 2021 (Sheena Roszell/650 CKOM file photo)
Regina police investigating death of a man hit by train
Regina police are assisting with an investigation into the death of a 56-year-old Regina man who was hit by a train Sunday. According to a release, the Regina Police Service (RPS) received a report fr...
Aug 04, 2021
Woman charged in connection with suspicious death in 2020
A woman has been charged in connection with a suspicious death last year. Richard Netmaker, 36, of Big River First Nation, was reportedly abducted from his home on Jan. 6, 2020, and assaulted. Police ...
Aug 03, 2021 (File photo/650 CKOM)
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