Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look back at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
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Latest COVID update Sept. 24: 528 new cases, 276 in hospital, 5 deaths
Numbers continued to rise across the COVID-19 board in Saskatchewan on Friday. The totals of hospitalizations and ICU patients again set records, the number of new cases was the second-highest ever re...
Sep 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/980 CJME file photo)
Detained Huawei exec reaches deal with U.S. justice officials
Canada's diplomatic dispute with China over Meng Wanzhou may be nearing its conclusion. The Huawei chief financial officer has been under house arrest in Vancouver since December of 2018 while awaitin...
Sep 24, 2021 Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO/Darryl Dyck)
RCMP vehicle hit by gunshot on Mosquito First Nation
Police are looking for witnesses after an RCMP vehicle was hit by gunfire on the Mosquito First Nation, 30 kilometres south of Battleford. In a media release Friday, the Mounties said officers from th...
Sep 24, 2021
Saskatchewan reaches 80% mark for first doses of COVID vaccines
Saskatchewan has reached a milestone in its response to COVID-19. In a media release Friday, the provincial government said 80 per cent of all residents who are eligible to get their first dose of a C...
Sep 24, 2021 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo)
Regina teen facing multiple charges after almost hitting an officer
A 16-year-old Regina boy is facing more than half a dozen charges in what police are calling an "unpredictable" situation. On Wednesday at around 12:30 a.m., a constable in the Canine Unit was driving...
Sep 24, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
SJHL hit with a COVID-19 case on the eve of new season
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) is not getting the smooth start to the season it had hoped for. The league announced on Thursday all Melville Millionaires games are suspended until furthe...
Sep 24, 2021
SEIU-West president unsure about NDP call for military help
The head of a union representing thousands of health-care workers across the province isn't sure calling the military is the help the industry needs. However, SEIU-West president Barbara Cape knows so...
Sep 24, 2021 Barbara Cape, president of SEIU-West. (File photo by Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sept. 24 Show Segments
8:30 – Saskatchewan currently has 273 COVID patients in our hospitals, including 58 in the ICU. The province also added seven new deaths yesterday, bringing that total up to 658. Our organ donat...
Sep 24, 2021
Pats preparing to drop the puck on the 2021-22 WHL season
Members of the Regina Pats organization can sense that a season well worth watching is just over the horizon. It has been three years since the team's Memorial Cup run in 2018 -- three years spent reb...
Sep 23, 2021 Shaun Semple, CEO of the Regina Pats, speaks during a media availability ahead of the 2021-22 WHL season. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
Latest COVID update Sept. 23: 460 new cases, 7 deaths, 273 in hospital
The number of COVID-19 patients in Saskatchewan hospitals and ICUs reached record levels again Thursday. The Ministry of Health said there were 273 people with COVID in the province's health-care faci...
Sep 23, 2021 A message written on the sidewalk outside Ellis Hall, next to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Twitter)
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