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Sask. sending more staff and equipment to fight B.C. fires
Saskatchewan is doing even more to help others battling wildfires. In addition to what has already been sent to B.C., 20 more firefighters, one liaison officer and four wildfire specialists are headin...
Jul 12, 2017 Aircrafts, firefighters, and wildfire specialists are heading to B.C. and Montana to tackle the ongoing fires in those areas. (Government of Saskatchewan)
Gender-neutral birth certificate fight reaches Sask. courts
Three Saskatchewan families continue to battle for equality for their transgender and non-gender identifying children. Fran Forsberg went to the Human Rights Commission requesting that gender be taken...
Jul 10, 2017 Fran Forsberg, Megan Cheesbrough and their families pose in front of the Court of Queen's Bench in Regina on July 10, 2017. They are fighting to have gender removed from identifications in Saskatchewan. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
Thieves target Regina grandma with dementia
A vulnerable woman with dementia is being targeted by thieves in her own home. "How can somebody do this? How could somebody be so heartless?" Nicole Ursu said of her what happened to her grandma. Ion...
Jul 10, 2017
Jury finds three men guilty of killing Shawn Douglas
Loud gasps and cries were heard from family and friends of Shawn Douglas as they heard the verdict they were hoping for. Johnathon Peepeetch, Joshua Wilson and Dennis Thompson were each found guilty o...
Jun 30, 2017 (980 CJME file photo)
Batters attacked online on anniversary of husband’s death
On the 11th anniversary of Dave Batters' death, his widow is facing attacks online. The Regina MP took his own life on June 29, 2009. On Facebook this week, former NDP employee and federal candidate B...
Jun 29, 2017 Regina MP Dave Batters committed suicide on June 29, 2009. (Senator Denise Batters/Facebook)
Deliberations at the Shawn Douglas trial enter third day
Jury deliberations at the Shawn Douglas murder trial are entering a third day. They are trying to decide whether Johnathon Peepeetch, Joshua Wilson and Dennis Thompson are guilty of murdering the 54-y...
Jun 29, 2017
Deliberations continue at Shawn Douglas murder trial
The jury at the Shawn Douglas first-degree murder trial began deliberations Tuesday afternoon. They have sat through a number of weeks of graphic testimony as the Crown alleged that Johnathon Peepeetc...
Jun 28, 2017 (980 CJME file photo)
Ovarian Cancer Canada seeks new treatments for patients
As if the battle against ovarian cancer wasn't hard enough, another fight is underway to fund the life-prolonging drug Lynparza. Judy Fielden has just finished chemotherapy for her second bout of the ...
Jun 27, 2017 Judy Fielden, 73, has just finished chemotheraphy for her second bout of ovarian cancer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Ovarian cancer patient fights for life-prolonging drug
She has spent more than 40 years caring for others as a nurse but now Judy Fielden is in the fight of her life. Battling a second bout of ovarian cancer, the 73-year-old Regina woman wants the governm...
Jun 26, 2017 Judy Fielden, 73, has just finished chemotheraphy for her second bout of ovarian cancer. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
West Nile virus could return to Sask. this summer
It wouldn't be a Saskatchewan summer without talk of West Nile virus. The flu-like illness is transmitted through the Culex tarsalis mosquito and can be a major problem each season. But it is difficul...
Jun 22, 2017 The province reminds people to cover-up and wear mosquito repellent to reduce the risk of West Nile virus. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
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