Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Regina Pats down Raiders 5-2, sweep Prince Albert to start WHL season
For the first time in more than a year, there were fans in attendance for a WHL game at the Brandt Centre on Saturday and they did not leave disappointed. With the cameras rolling, broadcasting the ga...
Oct 02, 2021 The Regina Pats showcase their new third jerseys. (Regina Pats/Submitted)
Latest COVID update Oct. 2: 478 new cases, 418 recoveries, eight deaths
Active COVID cases continue to rise in Saskatchewan. In its Saturday update, the province reported 478 new cases, 418 recoveries and eight deaths. There are also 306 people in hospital, with 67 in the...
Oct 02, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/980 CJME file photo)
Air quality advisories continue in areas of Saskatchewan
Air quality advisories remained in place Monday for some areas of Saskatchewan -- and the advisories likely will continue for a few days. Environment Canada initially issued the advisories for the are...
Oct 02, 2021 The Bell fire north of Hudson Bay. (Prince Albert Grand Council/Submitted)
Landmark Cinemas hits the ground running with vaccine passport system in Sask.
The proof-of-vaccination system is coming to a theatre near you in Saskatchewan, but it's not a new release for Landmark Cinemas. As of Friday, people are required to display their vaccine status to a...
Oct 02, 2021
Baby, kidnapping suspect found sleeping in car near Buffalo Narrows
It appears a baby may have slept through a scary incident Thursday near Buffalo Narrows. According to the RCMP, officers got a call just before 1:30 a.m., about a distressed woman. She told officers a...
Oct 01, 2021
Three more charged in death of man from Big River First Nation
Three more people have been charged in connection with the death of a man from the Big River First Nation in 2020. Richard Netmaker, 36, was reportedly abducted from his home on Jan. 6, 2020, and assa...
Oct 01, 2021
Reckless driving leads to many charges against Moosomin man
A 44-year-old Moosomin man is facing multiple charges after a rampage through the town Wednesday night. According to the RCMP, officers got multiple calls just after 9 p.m., about a truck being driven...
Oct 01, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Oct. 1: Sask. reports 5 deaths, 313 hospitalizations
Five more Saskatchewan residents have died as a result of COVID-19, increasing the province's death toll due to the virus to 700 since the pandemic started. The deaths reported Friday comprised three ...
Oct 01, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP's First Nations and Metis Relations critic sees West Lawn as place for learning
In recent years, the West Lawn in Wascana Park outside the Legislative Building has been used as a base where Indigenous activists made their calls for justice. On the country's first National Day for...
Oct 01, 2021 Betty Nippi-Albright, the NDP critic for First Nations and Metis Relations, speaking in the West Lawn of Wascana Park on Sept. 30. To her right is Janet Bugler, an Elder from Red Pheasant Cree Nation and descendant of Chief Piapot. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
With 1 in 5 employees unvaccinated, SHA launches proof-of-vaccination policy
The Saskatchewan Health Authority says 20 per cent of health-care workers in the province haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19. That's one of the reasons the SHA launched its proof-of-vaccination ...
Oct 01, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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