Murray Wood: Is this one of those times when money might be better in the government's pockets?
Windfall profits on oil are prompting a break in the federal fuel excise, but Saskatchewan isn't following suit. Murray ...
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Teachers excited to have kids back in the classroom
After six months of wondering, waiting, planning and re-planning, teachers are back in the classroom with students. All of the teachers 980 CJME heard from ahead of the first day of school were excite...
Sep 08, 2020 Students returned to school on Sept. 8 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Saskatchewan. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan to open drive-through COVID-19 testing sites Tuesday
The Saskatchewan government is set to open drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in Regina and Saskatoon. The government revealed the news in a media release Friday, when it also reported four new case...
Sep 04, 2020 Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
‘No justifiable reason’: Sandra Morin speaks out about nomination
Sandra Morin doesn't have the endorsement of the leader of the NDP, but she's still out campaigning in Regina Walsh Acres. About 15 months after she got the nomination from the party in the riding, Mo...
Sep 03, 2020 (Sandra Morin NDP/Facebook)
Bus driver shortage doesn't worry Regina Catholic School Division
The Regina Catholic School Division may be short a few bus drivers as school gets underway, but the division's spokesperson says the division isn't worried about it. Twylla West said there won't be an...
Sep 02, 2020
Province discouraging interprovincial travel, will go ahead with COVID alert app
Despite a 17th straight day with a single-digit total of new COVID-19 cases, the Government of Saskatchewan issued a warning Wednesday about non-essential interprovincial travel. Premier Scott Moe poi...
Sep 02, 2020 Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. NDP leadership declines to endorse Regina candidate
A campaign that has been going for 15 months in Regina Walsh Acres is in limbo after a call from the New Democratic Party. Barb Dedi, president of the NDP's constituency association in that riding, sa...
Sep 02, 2020 (Sandra Morin NDP/Facebook)
More masks and more space: Regina Catholic School Division opens doors ahead of classes
Back to school is a time-honoured tradition, but when kids return to classrooms in Regina next week, it's going to be a lot different than it was when they left six months ago. The Regina Catholic Sch...
Sep 02, 2020 Grade 8 teacher Brett Matlock at St.Gregory School. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Regina city council tables motion on mandatory masks
On Monday, Regina's city council decided to take a more hands-off approach to masks for the time being. During a special meeting, council discussed a motion which would have explored the idea of a man...
Aug 31, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Landlord frustrated over delay at rentalsman's office
It has been about two weeks since the Office of Residential Tenancies began taking non-urgent eviction applications again, but some landlords are calling the process since then "ridiculous." Wendy Sek...
Aug 14, 2020
Sask. chiefs gather to lend support, share their pain on suicide
Where there are normally only a few people here and there in the protest camp across from the legislature, on Tuesday dozens of chiefs wearing facemasks along with their headdresses stood behind Trist...
Aug 11, 2020 Tristen Durocher stands with chiefs from First Nations across the province who came to his protest camp in Wascana Park to show their support for him and his cause on Aug. 11, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: The president has tested the faithful
The may be some who worship U.S. President Donald Trump, but like the Beatles before him, Sarah Mills says the president...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 15
8:30 - With a clear majority now secured, Mark Carney no longer has to bargain to survive confidence votes and can focus...