Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Saskatoon Salvation Army helping kids going back to school
Saskatoon's Salvation Army wants to make sure students are ready for the school year. It has 1300 backpacks available for the students, just in time for the start of the school year. The organization ...
Aug 22, 2020 Volunteers pose with some of the 1,300 backpacks that will be made available for students in the Fall. (The Salvation Army/Submitted)
Landspout tornado touches the ground near Lake Lenore
Environment Canada confirmed a tornado touched down near Lake Lenore Friday evening. Its Shannon Moodie explained that they were alerted to the tornado by Saskatchewan's emergency officials. "There wa...
Aug 22, 2020 A landspout tornado appears to touch the ground near Lake Lenore on Friday, August 21, 2020. (Twitter/Brandon Houck)
Derek Keenan steps down as Rush head coach, remains general manager
Saskatchewan Rush General Manager Derek Keenan announced today that he will step down from his role as the club's head coach and turn over the bench boss responsibilities to Jeff McComb. Keenan spent ...
Aug 21, 2020 (Saskatchewan Rush's Derek Keenan/Submitted)
Six new COVID cases, 20 more recoveries; Sask. gov’t updates total from colonies
The Government of Saskatchewan says there have been 601 COVID-19 cases recorded in communal living settings like Hutterite colonies since the province started releasing case numbers. That represents n...
Aug 21, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Why you need to slow down in orange zones when no workers are present
Driving on the highway and following a 60-kilometre-per-hour orange zone sign with no workers in sight might be frustrating, but a government official said there are good reasons to keep the speed lim...
Aug 21, 2020
Salaries of Sask. Crown executives fell 1% in 2019-20 fiscal year: Report
The salaries of upper management at Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations dipped during the 2019-20 fiscal year, but not nearly as much as the previous year. The Crown Investments Corporation’...
Aug 21, 2020
6 heat records broken in Sask., Elbow claims title of national hot spot Thursday
Thursday was a third day of record breaking heat in Saskatchewan. Environment Canada says Regina was one of six communities to break a record. The high temperature hit 34.7 C, beating out the previous...
Aug 21, 2020
Saskatoon Fire Department shows off new technology
The Saskatoon Fire Department opened its doors to the media to explain how its newest firefighting tool works. The fire suppression aerosol grenade was used for the first time on Sunday, but it wasn't...
Aug 20, 2020 Wayne Rodger, assistant chief of the Saskatoon Fire Department shows off the aerosol fire suppression grenade. (Logan Stein/650 CKOM)
4 new COVID cases, 9 more recoveries in Sask.; active cases at 149
For the first time in a month, the number of active cases of COVID-19 reported in Saskatchewan is under 150. In a media release Thursday, the provincial government said there were four new cases and n...
Aug 20, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Harvest lagging in some areas of Saskatchewan
Harvest is slightly behind the average for this time of year. According to the weekly crop report from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, four per cent of the crop has been combined in the prov...
Aug 20, 2020
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