Sarah Mills: National unity might be Mark Carney's toughest challenge
Sarah Mills takes a look at the priorities Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out for his ministers in their mandate letter...
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Sask. residents find surprising damage after fierce winds
The wind storm Tuesday night tore through Jeff Markewich's office like a Tasmanian devil. He was just one of the people in Saskatchewan cleaning up from Tuesday's monstrous wind storm. Markewich is a ...
Oct 18, 2017 Window blown out near the top of Victoria Tower in downtown Regina at Victoria Avenue and Rose Street Oct. 18,
2017. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
Football more than a game for a Regina family
Bereft and feeling devastated, 15-year-old Cody Birns didn't know where to turn when his mom Jennifer had a stroke in September. Football was the one activity that helped him forget his anxiety and st...
Oct 17, 2017 Cody Birns, 15, hugs his mom Jennifer after a football game. (Jennifer Birns)
STC sale closes, profits not yet known
The sale of Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) assets has closed, but it will be some time before the province can answer how much money has been made. There were a number of items for sale, in...
Oct 10, 2017
City of Regina continues to target unpaid parking tickets
It may have slipped your mind to pay that parking ticket, but the City of Regina hasn't forgotten. It is going into the vault and sending notices to those with outstanding fines, some going back by a ...
Oct 10, 2017 (980 CJME file photo)
Regina resident fed up with lack of road repair
Regina may be known for Wascana Park and the RCMP Depot but for the residents that live there, pot holes are just as familiar as those famous landmarks. Dave Hansen feels that way about his street in ...
Oct 10, 2017 This old residential street in Regina's Lakeview neighbourhood hasn't been repaved in decades. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
Sask. defends sour gas checks despite transparency concerns
The government is defending its regulation of sour gas leaks in light of recent reports into the issue. A number of media organizations, including students at the University of Regina, spent months re...
Oct 06, 2017
'Savage cowardice:' guilty plea in Lisa Strang murder
In what was described by Lisa Strang's elderly parents as an act of "savage cowardice", John Strang stood in court and pleaded guilty to his wife's murder. Lisa was found in the basement of her home i...
Oct 04, 2017
Carbon capture touted at global symposium in Regina
SaskPower is a world leader in the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) so it makes sense to hold a conference about the technology right next door. At the Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina, the world's...
Oct 03, 2017 Panellists, including SaskPower president and CEO Mike Marsh, addresses the Global CCS Symposium in Regina on Oct. 3, 2017. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
Crown calls Leflar killer a liar as sentencing hearing ends
One of the teens who killed Hannah Leflar is a liar, according to Crown lawyer Chris White on the final day of the teen's sentencing hearing. The long, drawn-out judicial process is finally coming to ...
Sep 29, 2017 The second teen convicted of killing 16-year-old Hannah Leflar leaves the courthouse on Sept. 20, 2017. (Jessika Guse/980 CJME)
Regina Catholic schools support HPV vaccine despite letter
The Regina Catholic School division has apologized after a letter from the province's bishops questioning the HPV vaccine was sent out. "While the vaccine is said to prevent 70 per cent of the HPV inf...
Sep 28, 2017
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