Sarah Mills: It's a dream come true - I get to see England in the World Cup
After months of waiting and wading through FIFA's Kafkaesque ticket-buying process, Sarah Mills finally has tickets to s...
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Saskatoon bingo hall left confused by restrictions
A Saskatoon bingo hall says the measures ordering bingo halls in Saskatchewan to close on Saturday doesn’t change much and is left confused by the way the province is restricting the industry. L...
Dec 19, 2020
FSIN calls out government for COVID measure that closes casinos
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is not impressed with one of the Saskatchewan government’s new COVID-19 measures. On Saturday at 12:01 a.m., all casinos and bingo halls in ...
Dec 18, 2020
SaskPower pens chapter for feds' SMR action plan
The federal government unveiled its Small Modular Reactor Action Plan on Friday, throwing its weight behind efforts to develop nuclear power technology. The plan, which outlines the efforts to deploy ...
Dec 18, 2020
Latest COVID update Dec. 18: 2 deaths, 245 new cases, 485 recoveries
Two more residents of the Regina area have died after contracting COVID-19. In its daily update, the province says a person in the 70-to-79 age range and another in the 80-and-over range have d...
Dec 18, 2020
Regina woman offers first-hand look at getting COVID vaccine
What is it like to get a COVID-19 vaccine? One Regina woman thinks it's fairly similar to getting any other kind of vaccine. Jill Straker works at the drive-through COVID testing site on the grounds o...
Dec 18, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
White Christmas to finish off wild weather in the west in 2020
A province known for being green is expected to be white for the holidays. "I'm going to bet a couple loonies that you're going to clearly have a white Christmas," Environment Canada senior climatolog...
Dec 18, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Roughriders release Regina product Zack Evans
The CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders released Regina-born defensive tackle Zack Evans on Friday. The 30-year-old product of the PFC's Regina Thunder initially signed with the Roughriders in 2012 as a te...
Dec 18, 2020 Zack Evans. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM file photo)
Regina police, RCMP search urban, rural locations for guns
An investigation into the illegal manufacturing of guns resulted in searches at a number of properties in Regina and in rural Saskatchewan on Thursday. In a media release late in the afternoon, the Re...
Dec 17, 2020 A 22 year-old male is facing 11 charges related to possession of weapons and assaulting a police officer. (980 CJME file photo)
Isolation period for Saskatchewan COVID cases reduced to 10 days
People who test positive for COVID-19 in Saskatchewan won’t have to spend as long in isolation. Dr. Saqib Shahab, the province’s chief medical health officer, announced Thursday the isolat...
Dec 17, 2020
SHA updates its COVID response surge activation plan
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) continues to juggle staff and resources to manage during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an update Thursday to the surge activation plan it announced Dec. 3, the auth...
Dec 17, 2020 Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
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Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 24
On Friday's show, Evan looks at the stormy forecast for Saskatchewan heading into the weekend, the potential delays to s...