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Calling all pinheads: Customers flipping over unique entertainment rentals from Saskatoon cafe
Flashing yellow, red, white, orange and blue lights pop from the boxy machines lining the right wall of Pokey's Pinball Cafe, greeting customers as they walk through the door. Cafe owner and operator ...
Jan 17, 2022 Jason Carroll, owner of Pokey's Pinball Cafe. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Latest COVID update Jan. 16: Hospitalizations rise, 11th straight day with no deaths
It's been 11 days since somebody has died from COVID in Saskatchewan. The province reported no deaths in its daily update Sunday. Cases continued to climb. There were 1,427 new infections, 20 short of...
Jan 16, 2022 (Lisa Schick/650 CKOM file photo)
Latest COVID update Jan. 15: More than 1,000 new cases, 19 new hospitalizations
There are 19 more people in hospital because of COVID-19 as of Saturday. The daily update from the province reported 1,114 new cases in Saskatchewan and no new deaths. There are 150 people now in hosp...
Jan 15, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
RCMP asking for help to find missing father, 7-year-old daughter
The Saskatchewan RCMP are asking for the public's assistance in locating Michael Gordon Jackson and his seven-year-old daughter. Michael Gordon Jackson is described as a 52-year-old male, weighing app...
Jan 15, 2022 (RCMP/Submitted)
Chain reaction causes backup on Idylwyld
Things got a little wild on Saskatoon's Idylwyld Drive on Friday afternoon. A police vehicle with its lights on appeared to be responding to a crash on Idylwyld heading northbound, leading to signific...
Jan 14, 2022 (Dallas Dahlseide/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon man wins $50M on Lotto Max
Saskatoon has another multimillionaire. According to a media release from Sask Lotteries, Dustin Kiefer was about to go into a morning meeting when he saw that someone from Saskatoon had won $50 milli...
Jan 14, 2022 (Sask Lotteries/Submitted)
No more alarm clocks for 650 CKOM morning host Brent Loucks
Brent Loucks has been waking Saskatoon up for 40 years. Now he's ready to start sleeping in. "Forty years of 4 a.m. is long enough!" Loucks said as he explained his decision to step back from doing th...
Jan 14, 2022
Saskatoon restaurant introduces robot server during pandemic
The restaurant industry has seen many changes over the course of the pandemic. Yip Hong Dim Sum owner Sam Yang can attest to that. Just lately, Yang and his restaurant decided to bring in a working ro...
Jan 12, 2022 Yip Hong Dim Sum owner Sam Yang shows off his new robot employee named Gina. (Dallas Dahlseide/650 CKOM)
'Today is like a gift': Saskatchewan gets break from frigid winter temperatures
The province woke up to completely different weather for the first time in a long time. After enduring the cold temperatures that hovered near the -40 C mark for much of the last few weeks, the majori...
Jan 11, 2022 Cross-country skiing is seeing a surge in popularity as more people look for outdoor activities instead of a vacation to a hot climate. (Saskatoon Nordic Ski Club/Saskatoon)
Latest COVID update Jan. 11: 1,027 new cases, no new ICU admissions
Saskatchewan continued its upward climb in new COVID-19 cases Tuesday. The Ministry of Health reported 1,027 new cases Tuesday, the fourth time in five days the province has surpassed 1,000 new cases....
Jan 11, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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