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Two charged after fight in Athol Street home
Two Regina residents are facing charges after a fight in a home on Athol Street left a 62-year-old man with stab wounds. In a media release Thursday, the Regina Police Service said officers responded ...
Dec 31, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Residents should stay off frozen bodies of water, fire department says
The Regina Fire Department is warning residents to stay off frozen bodies of water like Wascana Lake and Creek, storm channels, retention ponds and recreational lakes. Lately, there has been a trend w...
Dec 31, 2020 A Regina fire department truck. (Evan Radford/980 CJME)
Lloydminster nurses share world junior 50/50 jackpot
After a long stressful year on the frontlines battling COVID-19, a group of nurses in Lloydminster is ending 2020 on a high note. The eight women from the maternity unit are sharing $241,850 after win...
Dec 31, 2020
36 COVID-related deaths at Parkside Extendicare: SHA
There have been 36 deaths at Parkside Extendicare in Regina due to a COVID-19 outbreak. That's the latest from the Saskatchewan Health Authority, which has been helping with the day-to-day operations ...
Dec 30, 2020 Parkside Extendicare care home in Regina. (Logan Stein/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan vaccination distribution spreading to other areas
Saskatchewan added another tool to its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday afternoon, with the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine arriving in the province. About 4,900 doses arrived a...
Dec 30, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Sask. highways minister visited California over Christmas
Saskatchewan's minister of highways has been out of the country over the Christmas break. Even though the federal and provincial governments have suggested people avoid unnecessary interprovincial and...
Dec 30, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Dec. 30: 3 deaths, 147 new cases, 2,949 active cases
For the first time in more than a month, the number of active COVID-19 cases being reported in Saskatchewan has fallen below 3,000. In a media release Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said the...
Dec 30, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Saskatoon company fined $70K after workplace fatality
A Saskatoon company has been fined $70,000 in connection with a fatal workplace incident in October of 2019. Sommer Green Forages pleaded guilty in Outlook Provincial Court on Dec. 17 to a violation u...
Dec 30, 2020
Saskatchewan government backs battery recycling program
The Government of Saskatchewan has approved a program that can recycle all of those batteries that have died in the toys kids got for Christmas. In a media release Wednesday, the government announced ...
Dec 30, 2020
Visitors to Echo Valley Provincial Park can Skate the Park
Skate the Park is returning to Echo Valley Provincial Park. Starting in January, visitors to the park near Fort Qu'Appelle can go for a skate on a road that has been flooded by staff and turned into a...
Dec 30, 2020 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
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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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