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Regina teenager faces 15 charges after June crime spree
A 17-year-old boy from Regina is facing several charges after a string of incidents over a two-week period in June. In a news release, police say they arrested him on June 22 as he was getting out of ...
Jul 05, 2019
Riders' Elimimian in, Marshall and Lauther out ahead of Stamps matchup
There's some good news and some bad news when it comes to the Saskatchewan Roughriders' injury report. On Saturday, Rider Nation will finally get to see one of the team's high-profile free-agent signi...
Jul 05, 2019 Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Solomon Elimimian does a drill at practice. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Search continues for Tamra Keepness 15 years later
Joyce Keepness hasn't celebrated her birthday since July 5, 2004. That's the day her great-niece, Tamra Keepness, went missing from her Ottawa Street home in Regina. Since then, it has been a mystery ...
Jul 05, 2019 Tamra Keepness' great-aunts, Joyce Keepness (L-R), Ellen Keewatin and Lucinda Toto, pose for a photo at the missing girl's annual barbecue in Core Community Park on July 5, 2019. (Jessie Anton/980 CJME)
Winning Stanley Cup fulfilled "a family dream" for Schwartz
Jaden Schwartz will get to share the Stanley Cup with friends, family members and hundreds of other people Saturday. The Wilcox-born St. Louis Blues forward and teammate Tyler Bozak -- a product of Re...
Jul 05, 2019 Jaden Schwartz (File photo courtesy of the St. Louis Blues/Twitter)
Lac-Megantic marks sixth anniversary of rail disaster that claimed 47 lives
LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. - The sixth anniversary of the rail disaster in Lac-Megantic, Que., will be marked this weekend with events aimed at remembering those who were lost and recognizing how the communit...
Jul 05, 2019
Good news, bad news in SaskPower annual report
Despite a couple of major power outages and the start of the carbon tax, 2018-19 appears to have been a good year for SaskPower, with the Crown corporation reporting a dividend for the first time in s...
Jul 05, 2019 SaskPower released its annual report for 2018-19 on July 5, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
SaskPower natural gas plans could be derailed by federal regs
The future of SaskPower's natural gas plans, and therefore its emissions reductions, could be in jeopardy after new regulations from the federal government. On Friday, the federal government released ...
Jul 05, 2019 Minister Responsible for SaskPower Dustin Duncan (l) and Troy King, vice-president of finance and business performance and Chief Financial Officer for SaskPower (r), at a media briefing on July 5, 2019 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Memorial service set for former lieutenant-governor
A state memorial service to honour former Saskatchewan Lt.-Gov. W. Thomas Molloy is to be held July 13 in Saskatoon. Molloy died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He had been installed as...
Jul 05, 2019
No tsunami or damage reported after multiple tremors recorded off B.C.
VANCOUVER - A series of earthquakes off British Columbia's coast on Friday may be linked to a stronger quake in the same area earlier in the week, experts say. Alison Bird, a seismologist with the Pac...
Jul 05, 2019 (Google Maps)
Scheer calls for more inspections on Chinese imports, possible tariffs
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step up inspections on all products from China and to consider slapping tariffs on imports from the Asian country....
Jul 05, 2019
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Sarah Mills: Doug Ford may be cutting his nose off to spite his face
A Republican congresswoman is fighting back against Ontario's US booze ban, and Sarah Mills says Premier Doug Ford may f...
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