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'Addictions know no bounds:' Hindley on rising overdose deaths
Saskatchewan's overdose numbers are higher than they've ever been and Addictions and Mental Health Minister Everett Hindley is calling for a broad approach to fix the problem. An estimated 464 people ...
Jan 30, 2022 Naloxone kits are available for free to anyone who may be likely to witness a fatal opioid overdose. (980 CJME file photo)
Regina drug bust nets over 68 grams of fentanyl
Two people in Regina are facing an assortment of charges after an investigation by the Regina Police Service Street Gang Unit (SGU). On Saturday, the SGU issued a warrant for a home in the 600 block o...
Jan 30, 2022 (Kevin Martel/980 CJME)
P.A.'s Gord Broda buys Pegasus Project Mustang for $1 million
The Pegasus Project for STARS just got another $1 million to help support its Ambulance Foundation. Prince Albert's Gord Broda won the custom-made 1968 Ford Shelby Mustang 427 at the Barrett-Jackson A...
Jan 29, 2022 The Pegasus Project 1968 Mustang was sold for $1 million at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Arizona, and won by Prince Albert's Gord Broda. (Pegasus Project for STARS/Facebook)
RCMP investigating after man shot to death in Dubuc
A 47-year-old man is dead after a shooting early Saturday in Dubuc. In a media release Saturday, the RCMP said the shooting occurred around midnight in the town about 70 kilometres south of Yorkton. T...
Jan 29, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
Locking up Lauther: Riders sign kicker to extension
Brett Lauther will be kicking back in Saskatchewan for at least two more CFL seasons. The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced Saturday they had signed the Nova Scotia-born kicker to a two-year contract...
Jan 29, 2022 Kicker Brett Lauther. (File photo courtesy of Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Convoy rolls into Regina in support of vaccine mandate protest in Ottawa
South Regina was brought close to a standstill Saturday as a convoy of truckers and supporters moved through the city in solidarity with the protest in Ottawa. https://twitter.com/DomLucyk/status/1487...
Jan 29, 2022 A rally was held at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in support of truckers protesting cross-border vaccine mandates on Jan. 29, 2022. (Dominick Lucyk/980 CJME)
Looking far ahead, Sask. leaders finding some optimism on COVID
As COVID cases continue to grow by leaps and bounds in Saskatchewan and some worry over the government's response - or what some feel is a lack thereof - news around the pandemic can be quite grim. Bu...
Jan 29, 2022 Health Minister Paul Merriman. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Health authority starting process of moving patients in city hospitals to rural areas
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is working through its plans to manage the increased demands on hospitals due to Omicron, and part of that is moving patients around. Derek Miller, interim chie...
Jan 28, 2022
STF president criticizes new rules around COVID isolation
Saskatchewan's new rules on COVID-19 isolation are drawing criticism from the teachers' union. Starting Friday, close contacts will not need to isolate. Also, the isolation period for anyone unvaccina...
Jan 27, 2022 Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation president Patrick Maze. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
NDP releases report on housing and poverty, calls on government to do more
Meara Conway says she and others noticed a housing and poverty crisis in the province. That prompted the NDP Regina Elphinstone-Centre MLA to speak to different communities in the province about what ...
Jan 25, 2022 NDP MLA Meara Conway releases her report after public consultations on housing and poverty on Jan. 24, 2022. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
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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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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, July 9
8:30 - An MOU has been signed between the City of Saskatoon and the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation on the downtown entertainmen...