Murray Wood: Sask. farmers pay the price for Ottawa's gopher ban
Gophers are chewing through crops and profits, and farmers blame Ottawa's strychnine ban. They say the damage is out of ...
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Saskatchewan reports 1,051 new cases, 403 people with COVID in hospital
More than 400 people with COVID-19 were in Saskatchewan hospitals as of Wednesday. The weekly epidemiological report issued by the Ministry of Health on Thursday said there were 403 people with COVID ...
Apr 14, 2022
Sask. farmer says storm leaving significant work, six-foot drifts behind
There are snowdrifts six feet high in front of every building door that Lee Stanley can see. The Gainsborough-area farmer said Day 2 of the spring snowstorm hammering southeast Saskatchewan is looking...
Apr 14, 2022 (Lee Stanley/Submitted)
Inquest set to examine death of man shot by RCMP on Fishing Lake First Nation
A coroner's inquest will probe the death of a man who was shot during a confrontation with RCMP officers on the Fishing Lake First Nation in August of 2019. The inquest into the death of Lucien Silver...
Apr 14, 2022 Lucien Silverquill. (Facebook)
Case of bird flu prompts order from Saskatchewan's chief veterinarian
Saskatchewan's chief veterinary officer has issued an animal health control area order in hopes of preventing the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the province. A government media...
Apr 14, 2022
Mounties find gun, drugs after stopping speeding car
A traffic stop on the Trans-Canada Highway turned into much more Tuesday. According to the RCMP, at about 2:30 p.m., an officer from the Morse detachment pulled over a car doing 159 kilometres per hou...
Apr 14, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
April 14 Show Segments
8:30 – The southeastern corner of Saskatchewan has been hammered by a spring snowstorm, driven by a Colorado Low moving north into the Prairies. While the area is not suffering the same widespre...
Apr 14, 2022
Regina school buses cancelled due to poor road conditions
Transportation is cancelled all day Thursday for students in the public and catholic school divisions. The decision was made as a result of poor road conditions in and around the city. Schools remain ...
Apr 14, 2022
‘I will hate you forever’: Triple homicide case results in life sentence
By Nigel Maxwell Shirts that read Justice for Bentlee and bore the face of a smiling, blue-eyed young child were scattered throughout a Prince Albert courtroom on Wednesday as dozens of family members...
Apr 13, 2022
241 guns, 14,000 rounds of ammo turned in during firearm amnesty
More than 240 unwanted guns were turned in during the provincewide 2022 Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police gun amnesty. The amnesty, which ran from March 21 through Sunday, collected 241 unw...
Apr 13, 2022 Firearms collected during a gun amnesty on display at the Regina police headquarters on May 8, 2019. (Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
Minister says COVID measures in schools 'not going to happen'
Saskatchewan's teachers' union wants COVID-19 precautions reinstated in schools after a big jump in COVID was found in some cities' wastewater, but the education minister isn't going to bite. In a new...
Apr 13, 2022 Education Minister Dustin Duncan. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
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