Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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RCMP looking for 3 men charged with kidnapping
A kidnapping in Yorkton early Tuesday morning had the RCMP charging and then searching for three men a little over a day later. According to police, on Tuesday around 2 a.m., a man was walking down an...
Sep 08, 2021 Dustin Kennedy (left), Scott Cook (centre) and Tyson Ledoux (right) are wanted by the RCMP in connection with a kidnapping in Yorkton on Tuesday. (RCMP/Submitted)
Latest COVID update Sept. 8: 405 new cases, 181 hospitalizations, 2 deaths
There were 405 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Saskatchewan on Wednesday, the fifth-highest single-day total of new cases in the province since the pandemic started. The highest daily total ever rep...
Sep 08, 2021 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
Suspect in James Smith Cree Nation murders makes first court appearance
The man charged after a double murder on the James Smith Cree Nation on Sunday made his first court appearance Wednesday morning. Shawn Moostoos, 33, appeared by phone in Nipawin Provincial Court to a...
Sep 08, 2021
Crash causes closure of Highway 18 near Mankota
The RCMP closed both lanes of Highway 18 west of Mankota on Wednesday morning after a single-vehicle collision. The Ponteix RCMP said the crash occurred five kilometres west of Mankota just before 9 a...
Sep 08, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
FSIN calls on feds, policing partners to help curb tragedies on Indigenous communities
Avoidable and preventable tragedies. That's how the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations described recent events in Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. This was all from a release by the FSI...
Sep 07, 2021
U of S athlete finishes seventh at international track competition
Avery Pearson competed on behalf of the University of Saskatchewan across the ocean before she even sat down in a Saskatoon lecture hall. The 18-year-old Meadow Lake track athlete just returned from c...
Sep 07, 2021
Charges laid in connection to James Smith Cree Nation shooting
The man at the centre of a manhunt in Saskatchewan on the weekend has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Shawn Moostoos, 33, was the subject of a la...
Sep 07, 2021
Three dead after weekend collisions in Saskatchewan
Three people died in a pair of collisions on Saskatchewan roads over the long weekend. On Sunday, two people died after a truck and a side-by-side collided on a road on the Big River First Nation. On ...
Sep 07, 2021
Latest COVID update Sept. 7: Lowest daily total of vaccinations reported
Saskatchewan reported Tuesday its lowest single-day total of COVID-19 vaccinations since injections started in March. The Ministry of Health said 294 doses of COVID vaccine were administered, includin...
Sep 07, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Guardian Angels watching over workers on Sask. highways
Saskatchewan has rolled out a new device to protect workers on the province's highways. Three remote-controlled "Guardian Angel" automatic flagging assistance devices (AFAD) are being used in highway ...
Sep 07, 2021 (Ministry of Highways/Submitted)
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
8:30 - With the by-elections now decided, Mark Carney's Liberals have secured a majority in the House of Commons, comple...