Murray Wood: Federal gun initiatives take aim at small business
Darryl Schemenauer is closing down his Regina gun store after 35 years, and he puts the blame squarely on the federal Li...
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Joyride, hit-and-run lead to charges for alleged carjackers
A multi-vehicle joyride late Wednesday started in Regina, went through the Pasqua First Nation and ended near Balgonie early Thursday with the RCMP using a Taser to arrest one of the two alleged carja...
Dec 07, 2018
Regina Canada Post courier caper caught by cops
A Regina Canada Post driver was thrown from his mail van Wednesday morning when another man jumped into the driver's seat and took off. Regina police said in a Thursday release the incident happened a...
Dec 06, 2018 A Canada Post truck sits in a Regina parking lot. (CJME file photo)
Sask. government announces rules for ride-sharing drivers
Saskatchewan is one step closer to seeing ride-sharing services, like Uber and Lyft, operate in the province. On the last day of the legislative session, the Saskatchewan Party government announced th...
Dec 06, 2018 The Saskatchewan government has introduced legislation to allow ride-sharing services like Uber to operate in the province. (Adriana Christianson/980 CJME)
RCMP nab 337 drivers for speeding, impaired driving
RCMP across Saskatchewan nabbed hundreds of drivers behaving badly Saturday night during a traffic blitz. More than 330 people were fined or charged for everything from not wearing a sea belt to being...
Dec 06, 2018
SaskPower crews still working on permanent fixes to lines
The major power outage this week may have left some people with a little extra appreciation for electricity and heat as power came back on for most areas, but smaller outages continued for the next fe...
Dec 06, 2018 (SaskPower/Twitter)
2 men facing gun, drug charges after stand-off in Regina
Regina police have charged two men and a teenage girl after an early morning stand-off on Winnipeg Street Tuesday. It started at about 4:45 a.m. at a home on the 1800 block of Winnipeg Street by 11th ...
Dec 05, 2018 Heavy police presence on Winnipeg Street by 11th Avenue on the morning of Dec. 4, 2018. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
CP Holiday Train lights up railway in Sask.
After much of the province spent a day in the dark, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will be lighting up the railway at stops across Saskatchewan Wednesday and Thursday. The lit-up train was schedul...
Dec 05, 2018 The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is scheduled to make stops across Saskatchewan on Dec. 5 and 6, 2018. (Canadian Pacific Railway)
Regina conserving water after power loss at treatment plant
The City of Regina is asking people to conserve water after the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant lost power again Wednesday morning. While power was restored following Tuesday's major outage, the p...
Dec 05, 2018 (980 CJME file photo)
Brace for cold in ‘quick blast of true winter’
After a week of freezing rain, fog, frost and light snow, most of southern Saskatchewan is being told to brace for frigidly cold temperatures Wednesday night and Thursday. According to Environment Can...
Dec 05, 2018 Environment Canada says snow is in the forecast for the coming days. (File photo by Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
‘Storm still going’: SaskPower warns more outages possible
After a very long day without power in many areas across the province, the lights came back for just about everyone by Tuesday night, but some areas lost power for a second time Wednesday morning. Fol...
Dec 05, 2018 A downed power line in Saskatchewan. (SaskPower)
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Sarah Mills: The season of the zipper merge has returned
It sometimes feels like leaders in our cities and towns don't plan for construction very well, but Sarah Mills says the ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, April 20
8:30 - Last week, the FSIN held its first general assembly since being told it needed to repay $29-million in federal fu...