Sarah Mills: Speeding tickets three months after the fact are no deterrent
Sarah Mills says photo radar tickets that come from Calgary months after the offence is not going to teach anyone a less...
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One dead after two-vehicle crash near Tisdale
A 65-year-old man is dead after a two-vehicle crash near Tisdale on Thursday. According to the RCMP, officers from the Tisdale detachment got a call at 6:30 a.m., about a collision on Highway 35, 2 1/...
Mar 04, 2021
Below-normal runoff in central, southern Sask. could affect lake levels
Water levels on recreational lakes in some areas of Saskatchewan could be low this summer if there isn't more snow in the coming weeks. The Water Security Agency (WSA) issued its updated spring runoff...
Mar 04, 2021 (Janet Hill/Twitter)
Manslaughter plea ends murder trial in Regina
Two and a half days into his trial for second-degree murder, Adam Taniskishayinew pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Taniskishayinew, who turned 29 on Thursday, entered the plea Wednesday at Regina's Cou...
Mar 04, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Government provides $19M to child-care facilities
Licensed child-care facilities in Saskatchewan are getting more financial help. On Thursday, the Saskatchewan government said it was providing around $19 million from the Federal Safe Restart Agreemen...
Mar 04, 2021 While the $10-a-day program reduced costs for families, centres were left trying to absorb rising expenses without corresponding increases in operational funding. Inflation touched everything from wages to utilities to groceries, and many centres built their budgets in 2020, before those costs surged. (980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update March 3: 180 recoveries, 121 new cases, 2 deaths
Recoveries once again outnumbered new COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan on Wednesday. In its daily update, the Ministry of Health said there were 180 recoveries and 121 new cases. The number of active ca...
Mar 03, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Pats to open WHL regular season March 12
The Regina Pats are to open the 2020-21 Western Hockey League season one year and one day after their last game of the 2019-20 campaign. The WHL released the schedule for the East Division bubble on W...
Mar 03, 2021
Driver safety shields among safety upgrades proposed for Regina Transit
The City of Regina is looking to use COVID-19 funding to improve safety on public transit. In November, the city applied for funding under the COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream. The city's exe...
Mar 03, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
Team Dunstone prepared for big-city Brier in small-town Saskatchewan
It's a case of a double bubble for Matt Dunstone's curling team. In preparation for the bubble in Calgary for the Tim Hortons Brier, Saskatchewan's representatives at the Canadian men's curling champi...
Mar 03, 2021 Saskatchewan skip Matt Dunstone throws a rock during the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier. (Curling Canada/Twitter)
Moe says decision on vaccine interval expected this week
Premier Scott Moe says the Saskatchewan government will make a decision by Thursday on stretching the interval between COVID-19 vaccine doses. Moe told Gormley on Wednesday the sudden shift from three...
Mar 03, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Submitted)
March deadlines set to remove ice fishing shacks
Saskatchewan anglers are being urged to take back their ice fishing shacks. In a media release Wednesday, the Saskatchewan government said all ice fishing shelters located on bodies of water south of ...
Mar 03, 2021 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
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Sarah Mills: Volunteers are the glue that hold our kids' sports together
From the grandpa who rakes the diamond to the parent coach in soccer and the mom cutting flags around little waists, Sar...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 5
8:30 - As central Saskatchewan is dealing with flooding, the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency is working closely with m...