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Regina drive-through to close temporarily after exhausting vaccine supply
Regina’s drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic is hitting the brakes. In a media release Friday afternoon, the Saskatchewan Health Authority said the facility at Evraz Place would use up its...
Apr 16, 2021
Feds, province, Saskatoon combine for $100M-plus infrastructure boost
The federal government, the provincial government and the City of Saskatoon united Friday to announce more than $102 million in funding for 11 infrastructure projects. Major projects include green inf...
Apr 16, 2021 (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM file photo)
COVID-19 variant increase 'imminent' in Saskatoon, says U of S researcher
Warnings about COVID-19 variants of concern rising in Saskatoon are now showing up in the lab. A team at the University of Saskatchewan that tracks the virus in the city’s sewer system says the ...
Apr 16, 2021
PHR warns of bad batch of 'pink' meth after overdose needed 27 naloxone doses
A "bad batch" of methamphetamine gave workers at Prairie Harm Reduction (PHR) quite the scare Thursday afternoon. Now, executive director Jason Mercredi said he is worried more may be circulating on t...
Apr 15, 2021 Crystal methamphetamine, often referred to as simply as "meth" or "jib," is a highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system. (Wikimedia commons).
Video shows security guard attempting arrest outside Saskatoon grocery store
A video showing a security guard attempting to handcuff a woman and wrestle her to the ground outside a Saskatoon grocery store Wednesday is drawing the ire of the store's owner. A roughly nine-minute...
Apr 15, 2021 (Jade Acikahte/Facebook)
Homes in Saskatchewan selling faster as March sets sales record
It’s a good time to buy a home in Saskatchewan, if you can find one you like. The real estate market in the province set a March sales record, up 85 per cent from March 2020, according to the Sa...
Apr 15, 2021
Regina, Saskatoon transit take big hit from pandemic
Nearly every industry has taken a hit from the COVID-19 pandemic in one way or another, and public services are no exception. With universities closed to in-class learning and far fewer people physica...
Apr 15, 2021
Age of eligibility at Regina drive-through vaccination clinic to drop to 47
The drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Regina’s Evraz Place is set to lower its age of eligibility again Thursday. According to a post on the Saskatchewan Health Authority website, the...
Apr 14, 2021
Walk a mile in his shoes: 95-year-old set for trek from Saskatoon to Regina
Saskatoon's Frank Atchison is lacing up his shoes and will walk the 250 kilometres from Saskatoon to Regina in support of sick children. The soon-to-be 95-year-old plans to walk five kilometres a day ...
Apr 14, 2021 Frank Atchison. (Photo courtesy of pattisonchildrens.ca)
Artistic director 'cautiously optimistic' some form of Jazz Festival able to run this summer
Like many large-scale events in 2020, Saskatoon's Jazz Festival was cancelled. With worries of the emerging coronavirus, the show was cancelled on April 17. Fast forward one year, with a years worth o...
Apr 14, 2021
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