Murray Wood: Infrastructure projects are expensive, but important
Any time we try to build something, people start complaining about costs. Murray Wood says people are angry about the ov...
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'Complacency': Shahab, Merriman pushing for vaccinations as first doses lag
The number of people getting their first COVID-19 shot is slowing in Saskatchewan. Over the past nine days, second COVID doses have outpaced first doses each day, often by many thousands. And where fi...
Jun 08, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Twitter)
Months after bylaw changes, no applications received for body rub parlour licences
Whether they have neon lights in their residential windows or have commercial storefronts with discreet back entrances, body rub parlours in Regina are supposed to be regulated now. But nearly eight m...
Jun 08, 2021 The City of Regina suspects there are 19 body rub parlours currently operating in the city. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
No Regina high school grad ceremonies at Mosaic Stadium
High school graduates won't be trooping across the midfield stripe at Mosaic Stadium this month. Regina Public Schools has confirmed that high school graduation ceremonies won't be taking place at the...
Jun 07, 2021 Mosaic Stadium. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. credit rating downgraded after provincial budget
The Government of Saskatchewan will have to dig a bit further in its wallet to service its debts for the next little while after credit rating agency Moody's downgraded the province. The agency recent...
Jun 06, 2021
'The scariest night': Survivor remembers 10 years in Sask. residential school
Just off Highway 15 on the Muskowekwan First Nation, hidden from the road by trees, stands a relic of pain and hurt for many in the community. It's the last fully intact residential school building in...
Jun 03, 2021 The Muskowekwan Indian Residential School was one of the last in the country to close its doors and is the only intact residential school building still standing in Saskatchewan. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Vigil held at last residential school building standing in Sask.
On Tuesday morning, the front courtyard of the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School -- its doors open less than 30 years earlier -- was filled with Indigenous people remembering the children who'd di...
Jun 01, 2021 The former Muskowekwan Indian Residential School was one of the last closed in Canada, shutting its doors in 1997. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Hundreds show up to vigil for residential school victims
Looking out the front doors of the legislative building Monday evening, you would have seen a huge crowd of people, most of them wearing orange. They gathered for a vigil to honour and remember the 21...
Jun 01, 2021 Hundreds gathered at the legislative building Monday evening for a vigil to remember 215 children found in an unmarked grave at a B.C. residential school site. May 31, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. family denied health-care funding for son's lifesaving treatment
Over the past year, the Finns have gone through a lot -- their four-year-old son diagnosed with a debilitating and potentially fatal disease, the race to get him treated, and now the Saskatchewan gove...
May 28, 2021 Conner Finn, whose parents are calling on the provincial government to reverse its decision not to help pay for his treatment for Adrenoleukodrystrophy (ALD). (Submitted)
Sask. has some AstraZeneca doses, is waiting to give out second shots
Premier Scott Moe is telling people not to worry if they got a first COVID-19 shot of AstraZeneca. The province currently has about 20,000 doses of those shots on hand now, and it's just waiting for a...
May 25, 2021 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Recent rain restores optimism for Saskatchewan farmers
Farmers across Saskatchewan were happy to see the rain start to fall over the last few days -- Mark Yaroshko among them. He farms near Biggar and said the moisture in his soil had been non-existent. H...
May 25, 2021 (SaskOrganics/Twitter)
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