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Man admits to setting blazes during Sask. wildfire disaster
As massive wildfires forced thousands of people to flee Northern Saskatchewan in the summer of 2015, a Hall Lake man was out deliberately setting blazes. The provincial government announced Friday tha...
Nov 24, 2017 Firefighting crews seen working near Weyakwin, Sask. during the 2015 wildfire season, which saw 13,000 people forced to evacuate from communities in Northern Saskatchewan. (Government of Saskatchewan)
Sask. drug trafficking investigation nets 2 arrests
The combined Saskatchewan policing arm that looks into organized crime groups has laid drug trafficking charges in Saskatoon. Two men, ages 36 and 37, were arrested Wednesday for possessing methamphet...
Nov 09, 2017 Police found six pounds of methamphetamine, eight ounces of MDMA and a small amount of marijuana during a search on Nov. 8, 2017. (Saskatoon Police Service)
Alta. man killed in semi crash on grid road near Kindersley
A man is dead after a pickup truck collided with a semi on a grid road near Kindersley Thursday. RCMP were called to the road about 10 kilometres north of the city shortly before 7 a.m. According to p...
Nov 02, 2017
Riders focused on winning next game, not playoffs: Jones
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have a playoff spot locked up, but that doesn't mean they're slacking for the rest of the regular season. Riders head coach Chris Jones indicated he plans on having his st...
Oct 31, 2017 Riders head coach Chris Jones speaks to media after practice on Sept. 20, 2017.
Huskies lose to Manitoba, miss playoffs
For the first time since 2001, the University of Saskatchewan football team will miss the Canada West playoffs. The Huskies lost 36-32 to the University of Manitoba in a must-win game for the playoff ...
Oct 29, 2017
RCMP officer shot at near Osler, suspect still at large
Saskatchewan RCMP are asking people to be on the lookout for a vehicle involved in a violent incident on the side of a major highway early Friday morning. A member of the Rosthern RCMP detachment spot...
Oct 27, 2017
Saskatoon school board responds to controversial crossword
For the second time in just over two weeks, an outdated homework assignment has come back to haunt a Saskatchewan school. First, it was a word search containing long-discarded terms for Indigenous peo...
Oct 25, 2017 A decades-old crossword puzzle containing long-discarded terms for Indigenous people was handed out as a homework assignment at a Saskatoon school in October 2017. (Facebook/Jaris Swidrovich)
Snow, rain and strong wind to hit Sask.
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for most of Saskatchewan warning a mix of snow, rain and strong wind is expected to hit Wednesday. The system could dump up to 10 centimetres,...
Oct 24, 2017 Special weather statement issued Tuesday warns rain, snow and strong wind on the way for most of Saskatchewan Wednesday. (Environment Canada)
Police looking for 7 teens in assault near Confederation Mall
Saskatoon police are on the lookout for seven teenage boys after an assault near Confederation Mall on Monday. In a news release Tuesday, police said a woman was walking towards a tunnel leading to th...
Oct 24, 2017
Sask. family shares story of wildfire survival
The family of two men injured in the wildfire in southwest Saskatchewan this week are sharing the harrowing story of their survival. Twila Wedrick and her daughter Shianna spoke with 650 CKOM Friday m...
Oct 20, 2017 Evan and Ron Wedrick remain in hospital after sustaining critical burns fighting a fire near Tompkins on Oct. 17, 2017. (Kylie Migneault/GoFundMe)
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