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SHA moving entry point for Regina drive-through testing site
With more demand at Regina's COVID-19 drive-through testing site, the Saskatchewan Health Authority is making a change to help reduce the traffic spilling onto Dewdney Avenue. Beginning Friday, people...
Nov 26, 2020 Vehicles line up to get into the drive-through testing site at Evraz Place on Sept. 8, 2020. (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Nov. 26: 3 deaths, 299 new cases; 85 active cases at Saskatoon jail
The Saskatchewan government reported Thursday the deaths of three residents who had tested positive for COVID-19. One of the people was in their 70s and lived in the Saskatoon area. The other t...
Nov 26, 2020 A woman being tested for COVID-19 in her vehicle at the drive-through testing facility in Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatoon woman builds large snow dragon in hopes of making people smile
Mel Thompson is making the most out of all the snow that was left on her front yard earlier this month. It took her about a week, but she made a giant blue snow dragon. She started by shovelling the s...
Nov 26, 2020
Police chief calls for embrace of harm reduction with increase in fentanyl on the streets
It was meth before, but Regina Police Chief Evan Bray said a different drug is becoming more prevalent in the city. "The reality is, we're seeing more fentanyl, and other drugs that have been laced wi...
Nov 26, 2020
SHA CEO says prolonged period of high cases would prompt field hospital activation
Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone offered a glimpse Thursday into what it would take to activate the province's two field hospitals in Regina and Saskatoon to handle COVID-19 patient...
Nov 26, 2020 Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Man in arrest video handed 30-day sentence for fleeing from police
The Regina man whose arrest in December was caught on video -- and which spawned a lawsuit -- has been handed a 30-day jail sentence in the case. Rocky Lonechild initially was charged with resisting a...
Nov 26, 2020 Terrence Lonechild holds up a written statement from his cousin, Rocky Lonechild, at a Jan. 13 media conference surrounding Rocky’s incarceration and arrest. (980 CJME file photo)
COVID case confirmed at Marion McVeety School
Regina Public Schools says an individual at Marion McVeety School has tested positive for COVID-19. The school division said it was notified of the case by the Saskatchewan Health Authority late Wedne...
Nov 26, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Show Segments
8:30 – As Saskatchewan added new COVID-19 measures Wednesday, our hospitalizations hit a record high. Our province now has 111 COVID-19 patients in hospital, and 19 of those in intensive care. T...
Nov 26, 2020
Moe 'quite troubled' by Trudeau's comments about vaccines
Scott Moe took a jab at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday. During a media conference, Saskatchewan's premier said he was "quite troubled" by comments made Tuesday by Trude...
Nov 25, 2020 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Nov. 25: 164 new cases, 3,012 active cases
The number of active COVID-19 cases being reported in Saskatchewan went over the 3,000 mark Wednesday. In a media release, the Ministry of Health said there were 164 new cases and 79 more recov...
Nov 25, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
OPINION
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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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 1
8:30 - Drivers are yet again feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Prices have climbed almost 20 cents per litre at some st...