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North Battleford family gets support after boy's long-term health struggles
Communities in northwest Saskatchewan are coming together to help a couple whose infant son has been in and out of children's hospitals across Western Canada. Local organizers recently set up a Facebo...
Dec 02, 2019 For the past 16 months, Braxton McIntyre has been in and out of hospitals across Western Canada. (Facebook/Braxton & Bryer McIntyre)
City passes budget, property tax increases of 3.7% in 2020 and 3.87% in 2021
Saskatoon City Council was able to keep tax increases low, but it's still going to cost a bit more than originally thought for the average homeowner. In 2020, property taxes will be going up 3.7 per c...
Nov 27, 2019 Saskatoon City Council finalized their multi-year budget on November 27, 2019. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon woman wins $1.3 million SIGA Smoke Signals jackpot
A trip to Gold Eagle Casino in North Battleford made Saskatoon's Debbie Vidal a millionaire. She won $1,333,974.82 in the SIGA Smoke Signals jackpot on Monday. "It's amazing, and awesome, and unbeliev...
Nov 27, 2019 Debbie Vidal (centre) won the SIGA Smoke Signals jackpot on Nov. 25, 2019. (Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority)
WestJet cancels Saskatoon flights over approaching Alberta storm
WestJet cancelled flights out Saskatoon Wednesday due to a nasty storm system in the U.S. that is expected to touch southwestern Alberta. The airline told 650 CKOM three cancelled flights out of the c...
Nov 27, 2019 A pilot taxis a Westjet Boeing 737-700 plane to a gate after arriving at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on February 3, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Budget day 2: Organics program remains; 'No big adjustments' on taxes
The second day of Saskatoon City Council's multi-year budget deliberations featured a lot of heavy lifting and another spirited discussion on the city's future with waste and organics. Coun. Bev Duboi...
Nov 27, 2019 (650 CKOM file photo)
FSIN vice-chief calls for criminalization of coerced sterilization
A vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) wants to see more action taken to support Indigenous women who allege doctors and nurses pressured them to consent to being steril...
Nov 26, 2019
Budget day 1: Saskatoon Police get their ask; City changes tax increases
Although the new Saskatoon central library stole the show on Monday night, there was still a lot that went on in council chambers on day 1 of the multi-year budget deliberations. Saskatoon Police will...
Nov 26, 2019 Saskatoon Police Chief Troy Cooper answers Saskatoon Council questions during budget deliberations on November 25, 2019. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
New central library approved with $20 million knocked off price tag
Saskatoon City Council has approved Saskatoon Public Library's (SPL) operations budget, along with the new central library for a smaller borrowing cost. Councillor Darren Hill's motion of allowing SPL...
Nov 25, 2019 Saskatoon Public Library's CEO Carol Cooley and Board Chair Lisa Erickson plead their case for the Saskatoon Public Library budget at deliberations on November 25, 2019. (Brady Lang/650 CKOM)
Crunching the numbers, council begins deliberating multi-year budget
For the next three days, Saskatoon councillors will decide how to spend the city's money. Heading into deliberations, the proposed property tax hike sits at 3.23 per cent for 2020 and 3.54 per cent in...
Nov 25, 2019
First revenge porn lawsuit filed in Sask. court
A Saskatchewan woman is suing her ex-lover in what appears to be the province's first revenge porn civil lawsuit. The woman, who cannot be identified due to a publication ban, is suing Daylan Heidel f...
Nov 21, 2019
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