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'So much trauma:' Man pleads guilty in death of Sask. Mountie
A picture of Shelby Patton, wearing the red serge and stetson and a wide grin on his face, looked out over a King's Bench courtroom for some of the proceedings Wednesday as lawyers explained a guilty ...
Sep 27, 2023 The memorial to Const. Shelby Patton at a park named in his honour in Indian Head. The man who ran over and killed Patton in June of 2021 pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Regina Court of King's Bench on Sept. 27, 2023. (Gillian Massie/980 CJME file photo)
Investigators to watch as burned heritage building torn down in Regina
Fire investigators in Regina this week have been having the same problems firefighters were in the days before with the heritage building on 12th Avenue called the Gordon Block. As they tried to inves...
Sep 26, 2023 Workers and machines begin placing timber planks on the paving stones in front of the Gordon Block heritage building on 12th Avenue to protect them when the burned-out building is torn down. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Fire-damaged building in downtown Regina to be torn down
The heritage building in downtown Regina that was damaged by fire Sunday is to be demolished. In a media release Tuesday afternoon, the city said the owner of the 111-year-old heritage building locate...
Sep 26, 2023 Most of the glass is broken in a heritage building on 12th Avenue after a two-day-long fire on Sept. 26, 2023. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Moe sidesteps questions about 'discriminatory' pronoun policy
While Premier Scott Moe has frequently agreed to speak with media about the controversial new school policies, including the pronoun policy, he's recently been avoiding answering the questions posed. ...
Sep 26, 2023 Premier Scott Moe has been sidestepping questions about whether he's OK with implementing a discriminatory policy after the children's advocate wrote a report saying the policy discriminates and violates children's rights. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
New joint-use school opens in Regina; public side already at capacity
The landscaping is yet to go in, but kids are already climbing over the playground, running around the gyms, and studying in the library at the brand new Argyle Elementary School and Ecole St. Pius X ...
Sep 25, 2023 Premier Scott Moe (left), Shauna Weninger, board chair with Regina Catholic Schools, Sarah Cummings Truszkowski, board chair with Regina Public Schools, Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill and several children cut the ribbon to officially open the new Argyle Elementary School and Ecole St. Pius X joint-use building on Sept. 25, 2023. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Moe unfazed by children's advocate report, will push on with pronouns policy
Despite Saskatchewan's children's advocate coming to the conclusion that the province's new policy around children's names and pronouns in school is discriminatory, Premier Scott Moe is set on moving ...
Sep 22, 2023 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announces a new campus for Saskatchewan Polytechnic. (Shane Clausing/650 CKOM)
U of R coach fired, suspended from university sports over misconduct, grooming
After multiple accusations of inappropriate conduct - and what the Athletics Canada commissioner called grooming - the University of Regina fired Wade Huber, the head coach of the Cougars cross-countr...
Sep 21, 2023 Huber was let go by the school back in October of 2022 after allegations were raised, but details didn’t surface until this week. (980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan gov't has no plans to follow feds on construction tax cuts
While the Government of Canada seems ready to dig into its own coffers to help build homes across Canada, the Government of Saskatchewan doesn't appear to be following suit. On Thursday, the Liberal g...
Sep 21, 2023 Donna Harpauer, Saskatchewan's finance minister, says the provincial government is working with the construction sector to address its current challenges. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Marches supporting Sask. pronoun policies set for Wednesday
Marches are expected across Saskatchewan and Canada on Wednesday in support of policies giving parents more control over their children's education. In Saskatchewan, six rallies are planned in support...
Sep 20, 2023 IH Saskatchewan legislature aerial 2 (Carolyn Hamilton/Submitted)
SHA looking to private sector for post-op physio in Saskatoon
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is doing more hip and knee surgeries to catch up with the pandemic backlog, but it appears it doesn't have enough of some support staff for afterwards so it's l...
Sep 19, 2023 The Saskatchewan Health Authority is looking to the private sector to find post-operative physiotherapists in Saskatoon.
(Nenad Stojkovic/CC)
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