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Mild weather produces record temperatures in Sask.
After enjoying an above-average November, the first few days of December have already produced record temperatures. According to Environment Canada, four communities broke temperature records on Tuesd...
Dec 06, 2023
Composting to continue at Regina landfill until new site chosen
The City of Regina still hopes to have a new composting site ready in 2024. On Monday, the Rural Municipality of Edenwold rejected the application proposed by EverGen to build a commercial composting ...
Dec 05, 2023 Kurtis Doney with the City of Regina said he hopes a composting facility is developed in 2024.(Daniel Reech/980 CJME)
NDP questions deal with Calgary clinic to provide mammograms
The Saskatchewan government's deal with a private clinic in Calgary to provide mammograms isn't sitting well with the Opposition NDP. The province is to pay Clearpoint Health Network $2 million to pro...
Dec 05, 2023 NDP MLA Meara Conway. (980 CJME file photo)
New coal initiative saving jobs and communities: Coronach mayor
The Saskatchewan government is taking a step towards what it says is clean coal. On Tuesday, it announced $550,000 towards a research project, operated by Videre Energy, to find the best method of cle...
Dec 05, 2023 "When I first moved there, I got tired of hearing, 'It will be what it will be.' It will be what we let it be," said Coronach Mayor Cal Martin. He's looking forward to his town's partnership with Videre Energy. (Nicole Garn/980 CJME)
Sask. students in health-care fields getting more options
The Saskatchewan government is offering students a chance to study outside the province in hopes they'll come back to fill health-care gaps. It's an existing program through which the province pays fo...
Dec 05, 2023 Advanced Education Minister Gordon Wyant (right) and other speakers at a government announcement about Saskatchewan securing training seats in other provinces for students in health-care fields. (Roman Hayter/980 CJME)
Pats' Huet named to Switzerland's preliminary world junior roster
Ewan Huet is expected to represent Switzerland at the 2024 world junior hockey championship. The 18-year-old Regina Pats goaltender was named to the country's preliminary roster for the international ...
Dec 05, 2023 Regina Pats goalie Ewan Huet has been named to Switzerland's preliminary roster for the 2024 world junior hockey championship. (File photo courtesy of Keith Hershmiller Photography)
Sask. government spends $238K on ads for pavilion at COP28
The most expensive trip by government officials ever recorded in Saskatchewan history is adding another cost. Saskatchewan is spending $238,000 on the advertising at Dubai airports and metros for the ...
Dec 05, 2023 NDP Jobs Critic Aleana Young said the cost of the trip is difficult to justify. (Nicole Garn/980 CJME)
Gov't passes law to protect SaskEnergy officials from carbon tax blowback
The Saskatchewan government has passed legislation that will keep SaskEnergy officials out of what one provincial minister called "carbon jail." On Monday, Saskatchewan's Legislative Assembly unanimou...
Dec 05, 2023 The legislation was passed unanimously in the Legislative Assembly on Dec. 4, 2023. (980 CJME file photo)
Sask. sets record for surgeries between April and September
The Saskatchewan government says the province's surgical system is working at a record pace. In a media release Tuesday, the government said 47,748 procedures were done between April 1 and Sept. 30, t...
Dec 05, 2023 THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO/Chris Young
Sask. Party MLA addresses motel rates for Social Services clients
Saskatchewan Party MLA Gary Grewal spoke Monday for the first time since questions were raised about the motel he owns in Regina. In November, his motel was called out for charging higher rates for Mi...
Dec 04, 2023 "Sunrise Motel does not hold any contracts with the Government of Saskatchewan," Saskatchewan Party MLA Gary Grewal said when he spoke with media on Dec. 4, 2023. (Nicole Garn/980 CJME)
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Our reporters learned recently that photo radar boxes around Saskatchewan are sitting empty. SGI is saying very little, ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, July 8
8:30 - The Saskatchewan NDP are sounding alarms over a decline in long-term care beds despite the province's rapidly gro...