Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Federal budget addresses health care, dental plan, 'grocery rebate'
As was the case a week earlier in the Saskatchewan budget, health care was one of the main focuses when the federal budget was released Tuesday. The budget is calling for spending of nearly $491 billi...
Mar 28, 2023 Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO/Adrian Wyld
'It's a fun matchup': Blades, Pats excited about first-round series
It's a Saskatchewan showdown as the puck drops on the WHL playoffs later this week. In the Eastern Conference, the third-seeded Saskatoon Blades will take on the sixth-seeded Regina Pats, with Game 1 ...
Mar 28, 2023 Egor Sidorov and the Saskatoon Blades will be looking to soar past the Regina Pats in the first round of the WHL playoffs. (File photo by Steve Hiscock/Saskatoon Blades)
Regina police chief says officer safety remains top of mind
Hours after Monday's funeral for two Edmonton police officers who were shot and killed in the line of duty, a police officer in Quebec lost her life while responding to a call. Sgt. Maureen Breau with...
Mar 28, 2023 Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Five Saskatchewan-based WHL players named East Division all-stars
Two Regina Pats and three Saskatoon Blades were named to the WHL's East Division all-star teams Tuesday. Pats centre Connor Bedard and Regina defenceman Stanislav Svozil were named to the first all-st...
Mar 28, 2023 Connor Bedard. (File photo courtesy of Keith Hershmiller Photography)
Justice advocate 'ecstatic' after release of Sask. sisters
It was an emotional day for two sisters released on bail after spending nearly 30 years behind bars, and also for a woman who's been working for years to help free them. On Monday, sisters Odelia and ...
Mar 28, 2023
Analyst say gas prices will 'go much higher' due to carbon tax increases
It will cost more to fill up your car at the gas pump starting Saturday. The federal carbon tax is to increase to 14 cents per litre of gasoline from its current level of 11 cents per litre. According...
Mar 28, 2023 Gas Buddy Petroleum Analyst, Matt McClain said gas prices should go back to what they were before the price hike, within the next week or two. (980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan ports of entry set to return to normal hours
Nine land ports of entry in Saskatchewan are to return to pre-pandemic hours of operation Friday morning. According to the Canada Border Services Agency, the hours of operation at the Carievale, Clima...
Mar 28, 2023 The border crossing at Regway. (980 CJME file photo)
RCMP seizes meth, fentanyl, cocaine in Hodgeville drug bust
A two-month-long investigation has led to numerous drug charges against a 41-year-old Hodgeville man. In a media release, the RCMP said the Saskatchewan Trafficking Response Team in Swift Current and ...
Mar 28, 2023 (RCMP/Submitted)
Medical students join call for safe consumption site funding
In a few years, they're going to be the ones out helping to treat these problems, so a group of medical students is asking the provincial government to act now and put more money into mental health an...
Mar 28, 2023 Ryan Krochak, second-year medical student at the University of Saskatchewan and Regina president for Students for Harm Reduction and Informed Policy (SHRIP), holds up a nasal naloxone spray. He and other members of SHRIP want the provincial government to make the spray more available and to fund safe consumption sites in a bid to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths in the province. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
230 more displaced Ukrainians land in Saskatchewan
The fifth humanitarian flight bringing displaced Ukrainians to Saskatchewan landed at Regina International Airport on Monday. The aircraft carrying 230 people flew nine hours from Poland to the Queen ...
Mar 27, 2023 Minister of Immigration and Career Training Jeremy Harrison (with hands clasped) and Terry Dennis, the Legislative Secretary for Ukraine Relations, greet people from the fifth flight bringing displaced Ukrainians to Saskatchewan on March 27, 2023. (Lindsay Newman/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: Volunteers are the beating heart of Saskatchewan
There are so many people who step up for organizations in our province, creating events and moments that wouldn't happen...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, June 19
**WITH GUEST HOST BRENT LOUCKS 8:30 - After four months, the U.S. and Iran seemed closer than ever to an agreement, an M...