Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
Tag Archives: Regina
McMorris aiming to be king of the hill in Beijing
Mark McMorris' motivation at the Beijing Winter Olympics isn't just winning medals -- although he wouldn't mind adding a couple to his collection. The 28-year-old Regina product also wants to help bui...
Feb 02, 2022 (Mark McMorris/Twitter)
Plastic bag ban takes effect in Regina
As of Tuesday, shoppers will have to do an even better job of remembering reusable bags or bins when they head out -- the City of Regina's ban on plastic checkout bags takes effect. The ban was approv...
Feb 01, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
Saskatoon, Regina crews prepped for blizzard
High winds and heavy snowfall are expected to hit Saskatchewan’s two largest cities over the next 24 hours. The City of Saskatoon is doing its best to prepare for the blizzard-like conditions, w...
Jan 31, 2022
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)
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)
Regina police preparing for another convoy's arrival Saturday
Another convoy of trucks is to be in Regina on Saturday, when a gathering is planned at the Legislative Building. The first group of trucks arrived in the city Monday as part of a protest of COVID-19 ...
Jan 28, 2022 (Regina Police Service/Submitted)
Neighbours react to planned northeast Regina housing project
Some people who live close to the site of a planned new housing project in northeast Regina aren't happy about the move. The new housing unit is planned to give people working their way out of homeles...
Jan 27, 2022 The proposed location of a housing unit at 120 Broad St., in Regina. (Dom Lucyk/980 CJME)
Collective effort needed to curb rising overdose numbers in Regina: Bray
Regina recorded 160 overdose deaths in 2021 -- a 40 per cent increase from the previous year. Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray told the Greg Morgan Morning Show on Wednesday that that isn't the m...
Jan 26, 2022 Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Man charged with assaulting two Regina police officers
A man described as an "unwanted guest" at a Regina business was in court Monday to answer to charges of allegedly assaulting two police officers. The 41-year-old man was arrested Sunday around 4:30 p....
Jan 24, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
Hundreds turn out in Saskatoon to support truckers opposed to cross-border vaccine mandate
Hundreds of people turned out at a Flying J truck stop in Saskatoon on Monday afternoon to support local truckers, and to oppose a cross-border vaccine mandate requiring all truckers to be vaccinated ...
Jan 24, 2022
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
8:30 - Another MP just crossed the floor to the Liberal Party, just weeks away from three critical byelections where the...