Murray Wood: Who's hot and who's not
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Dry conditions prompt high fire risk, fire bans across Saskatchewan
As the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) issued a fire ban on Thursday for part of northern Saskatchewan, much of the southern half of the province was showing extreme and high fire risk throug...
May 09, 2025 While the wildfire threatening Onion Lake has calmed down enough that residents can return home, it is still of concern. (Sarah Whitefish/Facebook)
Staff sound the alarm in radiology dept. at Regina General Hospital
Gerri Grant's voice filled with emotion as she talked about quitting her job as an interventional radiology technologist at the Regina General Hospital, knowing it would put more pressure on the emplo...
May 08, 2025 Gerri Grant joined staff in the interventional radiology department at the Regina General Hospital, warning about their understaffing and space issues and how it’s affecting patient care. May 8, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Premier Scott Moe looking forward to First Ministers' meeting in Saskatoon in June
For the first time in about 40 years, according to Premier Scott Moe's office, Saskatchewan will host a First Ministers' meeting. It will be the first time since the federal election that all the prem...
May 07, 2025 Premier Scott Moe said he’d invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to Saskatchewan for a meeting, and Carney suggested a First Ministers meeting be held in the province in early June. May 7, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. NDP introduce bill to make separation vote tougher
On Wednesday, Sask. NDP Leader Carla Beck brought forward a private member's bill to make it tougher to trigger a referendum on provincial separation. The bill is called The Keep Saskatchewan in Canad...
May 07, 2025 Sask. NDP Leader Carla Beck introduced a bill on Wednesday to raise the threshold for any plebiscite to be held in Saskatchewan raising a question of separation from Canada. May 7, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Leaked letter on Regina police chief complaint 'attempt to intimidate': Lawyer
Since a letter leaked online Monday indicating Alicia Morrow filed a complaint against Regina Police Chief Farooq Sheikh, her lawyer said she's been dealing with targeted harassment and emotional harm...
May 06, 2025 A letter from the Public Complaints Commission to Alicia Morrow leaked online, saying she had filed a complaint against Regina Police Chief Farooq Sheikh. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME)
City of Regina proposes giving $7 million to Costco for second location
The City of Regina's administration wants to keep a proposed second Costco Wholesale location within the city limits, and it's recommending shelling out millions of dollars to do it. Last year, the ci...
May 06, 2025 Last year, the city approved a discretionary use application for a second Costco location on the western edge of the city, but the retailer found the development costs were too high. (980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan NDP wants clearer answers on western separation
After a weekend with an independence rally in Alberta and Premier Danielle Smith promising a separation referendum if signatures warrant it, the Saskatchewan NDP came out again on Monday to call for c...
May 06, 2025 Sask. NDP jobs and economy critic Aleana Young said she wants to hear from the premier how he would answer a referendum on separation from Canada. May 5, 2025. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. children's hospital nurse fired after snooping on 314 patients
A maternity ward nurse at the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in Saskatoon was left without a job after snooping on the medical records of 314 people. The province's privacy commissioner has more rec...
May 05, 2025 The information and privacy commissioner’s report said the nurse had to click through warnings verifying their need to look at the information on some of the files. (650 CKOM)
Meadow Lake Tribal Council calling for more access to health care
Calls for better health care in Saskatchewan are nothing new - whether it's talk about overcrowded hospitals in Regina and Saskatoon, or a lack of doctors in the rural south - and now northern Saskatc...
May 03, 2025 Meadow Lake Tribal Council Tribal Chief Jeremy Norman says some people in his communities have to drive three to five hours each way for dialysis treatment multiple times a week. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
New wind, solar projects to have largest Indigenous ownership in Sask.
A pair of new renewable power projects announced on Thursday are expected to set a record for Indigenous ownership in the province. As part of its drive towards adding more renewable power into the sy...
May 01, 2025 Meadow Lake Tribal Council Tribal Chief Jeremy Norman says to create power from what the creator has given them, the wind and the sun, was a no brainer for the tribal council. May 1, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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