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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
COVID variant infects 10 people at Saskatoon sports bar
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says that so far, 10 people have been infected with a COVID-19 variant at Sports on Tap, a Saskatoon bar near Prairieland Park. Those who have tested positive for the...
Apr 14, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon drive-through vaccination clinic moving to 52-54 age group
Changes are coming to drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Saskatchewan. In Saskatoon, the drive-through clinic at Prairieland Park is to open to people aged 52 to 54 on Wednesday. It previou...
Apr 13, 2021
'It was pure adrenalin:' Local hero recounts Saturday river rescue
Brad Pilon believes everything came down to timing during a Saturday river rescue on the South Saskatchewan River. He was on mile six of eight, running along Saskatoon's Meewasin Trail with his wife a...
Apr 13, 2021 Two boys on the shoreline of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon were fortunate Brad Pilon was nearby when one of them slipped into the water. Pilon went into the water to retrieve the child, swimming them both back to safety. The video was recorded by Pilon's wife, Ashley and released by Medavie Health Services West.
Saskatoon Tribal Council immunization clinic vaccinates Indigenous, non-Indigenous people
COVID-19 doesn't see colour. That was just one of the messages from Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) Tribal Chief Mark Arcand on Tuesday. His STC has facilitated a vaccine clinic of its own, located at ...
Apr 13, 2021 Saskatoon Tibal Chief Mark Arcand recieves his COVID-19 vaccine at the SaskTel Centre clinic on April 9, 2021. (
Jaris Swidrovich/Twitter)
Saskatoon police again asking for help on one-year anniversary of murder
On April 13, 2020, Tanya Alcrow was murdered on a Saskatoon street. One year later, the Saskatoon Police Service is again asking for information that could help investigators solve the case. At approx...
Apr 13, 2021 Surveillance footage shows a truck police say was at the scene of the murder of Tanya Alcrow on April 13, 2020. (Saskatoon Police Service/Submitted)
Costs of home building products 'going to take some time' to drop: SRHBA CEO
It's costing more -- about $30,000 more on average -- to build a house these days. Chris Guerette, the CEO of the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders' Association (SRHBA), said the Canadian Home Buil...
Apr 12, 2021 Worker hauling lumber on April 25, 2017. (File Photo/650 CKOM)
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