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'I'm so sick': Regina woman asks for help after running into health-care blocks
Jolene Van Alstine has been so sick, for so long, she's been approved for Medical Assistance in Dying. The Regina woman has a rare parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism, whic...
Nov 26, 2025 Jolene Van Alstine (R) and Miles Sundeen (C) came to the legislative building with the NDP’s Jared Clarke (L) to try to get a meeting with the Health Minister to see if he could help Jolene find an endocrinologist out of province. Nov. 25, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Wildfires, tariffs and health care: Province expecting $427 million deficit
Halfway through the fiscal year, the provincial government is projecting a deficit 35 times larger than the surplus it budgeted for in the spring. The fiscal update showed a $427 million deficit forec...
Nov 25, 2025 Wildfire near the bridge on the south side of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation community of Pelican Narrows on May 31, 2025. (Duane Hiebert, PBCN Emergency Response Manager/Facebook)
Cockroaches found in Regina General Hospital Mother Baby Unit
Among the things no new mother wants to see in her hospital room are cockroaches, but that's what happened at the Regina General Hospital in October. According to Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill, ther...
Nov 24, 2025 Derek Miller, the Chief Operating Officer for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, said on Nov. 24, 2025 that when cockroaches were spotted on the Mother Baby Unit in October, it was just a situation with a patient’s family. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Charge stayed for man accused of extorting former Sask. Party MLA
On Monday morning, the courtroom where the extortion trial for Harpinder Singh Bajwa was empty. His trial was scheduled to start that day, but on Thursday afternoon the Crown sent written instructions...
Nov 24, 2025 Harpinder Singh Bajwa was charged with extortion of former Sask. Party MLA Gary Grewal (pictured) in 2023 and his trial was set to start Monday, but the charge was stayed by the Crown Thursday afternoon. (CJME file photo)
Federal finance minister talks nuclear at SUMA event
Finance and National Revenue Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said you can't be in Saskatchewan without thinking about nuclear. The minister took part in an armchair discussion on Thursday with SUM...
Nov 20, 2025 Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne talked about what Canada, and Saskatchewan, have to offer the world in the nuclear space during an armchair conversation with SUMA’s Randy Goulden on Thursday. Nov. 20, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. government doesn't know how many people are waiting for addictions treatment
Addictions continue to tear apart lives and families in Saskatchewan and across the country, with governments trying to figure out a solution. As part of that, the Saskatchewan NDP's mental health and...
Nov 20, 2025 Mental Health and Addictions Minister Lori Carr said the provincial government will have a better idea of the wait list one its central intake system is up and running. (980 CJME file photo)
'Openness to an understanding': Premier returns from trade mission to Washington
Premier Scott Moe saw the trade talks between Canada and the U.S. fall apart recently, and said he quickly firmed up his plans for another trade mission to Washington. "We thought it would be prudent ...
Nov 19, 2025 Premier Scott Moe returned from a three-day trip to Washington on Wednesday, where he said he had meetings with a number of lawmakers including three members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Nov. 19,2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Warming spaces in Regina: provincial funding increased for homelessness strategy
The provincial government announced on Wednesday, it's upping its funding to one of the most pervasive problems in the provinces - homelessness. It's adding $20 million in funding over three years to ...
Nov 19, 2025 Regina Mayor Chad Bachynski (L) and provincial Social Services Minister Terry Jenson announced a $20 million increase to funding for the province’s homelessness approach, $1.1 million of which will go to the city this winter. Nov. 19, 2025 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Former Sask. Party MLA and cabinet minister Herb Cox dead
The flags were lowered to half-staff at the legislative building on Tuesday at the news of the death of former MLA and cabinet minister Herb Cox. He was 75. Cox was first elected as the Sask. Party ML...
Nov 18, 2025 Herb Cox was the MLA for the Battlefords for nine years before deciding not to run again in the 2020 election. Here, Cox (L) is pictured with Premier Scott Moe in front of the Twin Rivers Curling Club in the Battlefords in Feb. 2020. (Facebook/Premier Scott Moe)
'A little bit of closure': Crown prosecutor grateful for verdict in Misha Pavelick murder trial
With a guilty verdict already on the books, Crown prosecutor Adam Breker said the Misha Pavelick murder case was one of the largest he's been involved with. The trial lasted four weeks from beginning ...
Nov 17, 2025 Adam Breker, the Crown prosecutor on the case, hopes the guilty verdict for second-degree murder and the details of what happened that night being brought to light will bring some measure of closure to Misha Pavelick’s family and friends. (CJME file photo)
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