Murray Wood: Saskatchewan is winning the race to the bottom on minimum wage
An increase is coming for Saskatchewan's minimum-wage earners this fall, but Murray Wood says it will ensure they contin...
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RCMP investigating suspicious death of man
Police are looking into the death of a man after he was found in his home Tuesday on the Little Black Bear First Nation. File Hills First Nations Police Service has requested the assistance of RCMP Ma...
Nov 14, 2018
Liquor, groceries now under one roof in Regina
You can now buy booze and groceries under one roof in Regina. A liquor store has opened in the Real Canadian Superstore on the east side of the Queen City. It opened following a recent modernization o...
Nov 14, 2018 The liquor store inside the Real Canadian Superstore in east Regina. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Many child killers have been placed in Indigenous healing lodges, stats show
OTTAWA - Newly released figures show the practice of placing child-killers in the federal prison service's Indigenous healing lodges stretches back several years - well before the recent uproar over T...
Nov 14, 2018
Wildfire death toll rises as search for missing continues
CHICO, Calif. - A message board at a shelter for the many people who fled California's deadliest wildfire is filled with photos of the missing, as well as pleas for any information about relatives and...
Nov 14, 2018
SARM convention to highlight rural crime, carbon tax
Rural crime and fighting the federal carbon tax will once again top the agenda at the midterm convention for the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) this week at TCU Place in Saska...
Nov 14, 2018
Muscowpetung First Nation to open pot shop without licence
A new cannabis shop on the Muscowpetung Saulteaux Nation, northeast of Regina, is set to open on perilous ground. The Mino Maskihki Cannabis Dispensary opened to band members on Tuesday and is schedul...
Nov 14, 2018
Sheriff: California wildfire’s death toll rises to 48
PARADISE, Calif. - Ernest Foss was a musician who gave lessons out of his home when he lived in San Francisco, where an amplifier that ran the length of a wall served as the family's living room couch...
Nov 14, 2018
Prolific Regina author writes her first novel, at age 95
Having penned 27 non-fiction books, 95-year-old Kay Parley has done a lot of writing in her life. But she had never written a novel. She can now add that to her list of accomplishments as an author. A...
Nov 14, 2018 Kay Parley, right, signs a copy of The Grass People at the Bentley Hillsdale Retirement Residence in Regina on Nov. 13. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
Calgarians vote ‘no’ to bidding for 2026 Winter Games, in plebiscite
CALGARY - A Calgary bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is destined to die after the majority of voters said 'no' to it. In a plebiscite asking citizens if they want to host a Winter ...
Nov 14, 2018
Province gets $5M to improve addictions treatment access
The federal government announced on Tuesday it would contribute $5 million over the next five years to help fight addiction in Saskatchewan. That money is part of a bilateral agreement with the provin...
Nov 13, 2018 Saskatchewan Health Minister Jim Reiter (left) and federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale sign a bilateral agreement to improve access to addiction services on Nov. 13, 2018. (Joseph Ho/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: World Cup fun is becoming infectious
There is something special about watching your country play at the World Cup. Sarah Mills says the collective experience...
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