Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame unveils Class of 2022
Bill Brownridge isn't going into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame for what he did on a field, a rink or a track, but for what he did on paper and canvas. The Vawn product -- one of the five member...
Apr 27, 2022 Bill Brownridge. (Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame/Twitter)
SaskPower flips switch on largest wind generation facilities ever built in Sask.
SaskPower has seen the wind in Saskatchewan and is tapping into its potential as a power source more now than ever before. On Wednesday, SaskPower announced the largest wind generation facilities ever...
Apr 27, 2022 Four rows of wind turbines sit steady in a large Saskatchewan field.
Ticks set to emerge in Saskatchewan
As spring arrives in Saskatchewan -- sort of -- people are being reminded to watch for ticks. The majority of ticks found in Saskatchewan are American dog ticks, which do not transmit Lyme disease to ...
Apr 27, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
April 27 Show Segments
8:30 – Ukrainians displaced by the conflict in their homeland have begun to arrive in Saskatchewan, and are getting settled in and beginning to look for work. Oksana Beglarashvili, an economics ...
Apr 27, 2022
FSIN seeking to have Pope visit residential school gravesite in Sask.
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) wants Pope Francis to visit a residential school gravesite in Saskatchewan during his upcoming trip to Canada. On April 1, the Pope offered an apo...
Apr 26, 2022 The former Muskowekwan Indian Residential School was one of the last closed in Canada, shutting its doors in 1997. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Power still out in some areas of southeast Saskatchewan
Some SaskPower customers in southeast Saskatchewan are expected to spend another night in the dark. On Tuesday afternoon, the Crown corporation updated its efforts to restore power in that area of the...
Apr 26, 2022 (SaskPower/Submitted)
Moose Jaw firefighters deal with another blaze at dump
For the second time this month, a fire has broken out at Moose Jaw's landfill. On Monday, the Moose Jaw Fire Department got a call of a fire at the dump at about 9:50 p.m. Crews stayed on scene until ...
Apr 26, 2022 (City of Moose Jaw/Submitted)
On the roads again: Gov't, SARM put up $15.3M for rural projects
The Saskatchewan government and the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) have given the green light to funding for 56 projects aimed at improving rural roads in the province. The Ru...
Apr 26, 2022
Saskatchewan's 2022 big game draw set to open Sunday
It's a big day Sunday for Saskatchewan hunters. That's opening day for the province's big game draw, which is used annually to hand out a limited number of hunting licences to Saskatchewan residents. ...
Apr 26, 2022 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
RCMP releases video in hopes of solving double murder in North Battleford
Four months after two women were murdered in North Battleford, the RCMP has released a video showing a person who may have information about the unsolved case. Alyssa LeCaine, 25, and 20-year-old Daph...
Apr 26, 2022
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...