Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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Saskatchewan has first presumptive case of coronavirus
Saskatchewan confirmed Thursday the first presumptive case of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Saskatoon. The person was tested on Monday in Saskatchewan and has been well enough to self-isolate in their h...
Mar 12, 2020 Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. Health Authority in the midst of preparing for coronavirus
With cases being found in provinces across the country, it's likely not a matter of if Saskatchewan will see its first coronavirus case, it's when. So the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is in the...
Mar 11, 2020 John Ash, executive director of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Dr. Saqib Shahab, Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, and Health Minister Jim Reiter (l to r) discuss the province's plans for dealing with COVID-19 on March 11, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. students rally to save their extracurriculars
Sports jerseys and team flags of every colour took over the steps of Saskatchewan's legislative building on Wednesday at lunchtime, worn by teenagers rallying for their extracurriculars. A new contrac...
Mar 11, 2020 Students rallied at the Saskatchewan legislature to protest the loss of extracurricular activities on March 11, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. gov't still doesn't have finished plan to deal with possible coronavirus outbreak
The Government of Saskatchewan still doesn't have a finished plan on how it, and its many arms, would deal with a coronavirus outbreak if it were to happen here. Health Minister Jim Reiter said the pl...
Mar 11, 2020
Meili calling for postponed budget in wake of coronavirus-related market drop
With markets and oil prices taking a plunge in reaction to coronavirus in countries around the world, the leader of Saskatchewan's NDP wants the government to postpone the budget and take another look...
Mar 10, 2020 Sask. NDP Leader Ryan Meili (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
PC party leader cries foul on Sask. Party mailers
A large three-page mailer with the premier's face on it arrived at many people's home recently. It sported the Saskatchewan Party's green-and-yellow colour scheme and read "A New Decade of Growth 2020...
Mar 09, 2020
Teachers unimpressed with province's proposal on classroom composition
The second meeting between the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) in about a week had the teachers' representatives leaving less than impressed. The two sides are tr...
Mar 05, 2020 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Patrick Maze. (File photo by Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Parent says new southeast Regina high school sorely needed
At least one parent is happy to see Regina's public and Catholic school divisions working on a possible new joint-use high school in the city's southeast. On Tuesday, a memorandum of understanding was...
Mar 05, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Timmons bids farewell to leadership forum she helped create
Vianne Timmons said she was getting a little emotional Wednesday as she spoke about leaving the University of Regina in about a month and her last Inspiring Leadership Forum as president of the univer...
Mar 04, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Coronach 'open for business' with transition money announced Friday
First with the oil downturn starting in 2014 and now with federal regulations moving the country away from coal, southeast Saskatchewan's economy is hurting. But on Friday, the provincial government a...
Feb 28, 2020 Coronach's mayor Trevor Schnell, Feb. 28, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
On Tuesday's show, Evan talks about the Prime Minister's transition from minority to majority government, explores a pro...