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'I want to spend time with her': Woman reacts to prolonged care home restrictions
The wait to see her mother has been agonizing for Annabelle Walter -- and now she faces a longer delay. While some long-term and personal care homes in Saskatchewan are poised to ease visitor restrict...
Apr 28, 2021 Annabelle Walter (right) holds her mother, Mary, at Christmastime in 2019. (Annabelle Walter/Submitted)
Blades’ Wouters relishing final day of junior hockey
Saskatoon Blades forward Chase Wouters is savouring his final day as a junior hockey player. With the Blades set to wrap up the shortened 2021 season in the Regina hub on Wednesday, Wouters, 21, is re...
Apr 28, 2021
'I've never seen anything like this ever,' says head of Regina ICU
COVID-19 is sending more patients to the Regina intensive care unit than it can handle. The numbers are stunning to Dr. Jeffrey Betcher, head of critical care, who says occupancy hit 150 per cent last...
Apr 28, 2021
Regina man calls COVID situation in India a 'nightmare'
The COVID-19 situation in India is critical right now, with skyrocketing new cases every day and a health-care system that can't deal with the flood of patients -- and people in Saskatchewan from Indi...
Apr 27, 2021 Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India, on April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Police responded to 75 COVID calls in March, issued eight tickets
Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray told the board of police commissioners that intention matters when officers decide whether or not to issue COVID-19 tickets. As an example, Bray said police might...
Apr 27, 2021 Regina Police Service Chief Evan Bray. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
'I was devastated': University athletes miss out on final year of eligibility
Most graduated university athletes look back on their final season of competition fondly, but this year's group didn't even get a chance to suit up for one last time. The entirety of the 2020-21 U Spo...
Apr 27, 2021 Arthur Ward Photo (submitted by Morgan Baker)
Viterra planning canola crush facility in Regina
Grain-handling giant Viterra has announced it plans to build a canola crushing facility in Regina, one the company promises to be the "world's largest integrated canola crush facility." In a news rele...
Apr 26, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Bomb squad destroys suspicious package found at Victoria Avenue business
The Regina Police Service's explosives disposal unit destroyed a suspicious package that was found Monday behind a business on Victoria Avenue near Winnipeg Street. In a statement late Monday afternoo...
Apr 26, 2021 The Regina Police Service's explosives disposal unit responded to a call about a suspicious package behind a business on Victoria Avenue on April 26, 2021. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Latest COVID update April 25: Vaccinations near 400,000 mark, two deaths, active cases drop
The number of vaccines given in Saskatchewan is very close to the 400,000 mark. In its latest update Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported that 7,451 doses were administered, raising the tota...
Apr 25, 2021 The coronavirus. (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota/Twitter)
'It is a lot worse than what you think it is': Regina nurse describes ICU conditions
As the province continues to see intensive care units filled with COVID patients, a nurse at the Regina General Hospital (RGH) is speaking out on what conditions really look like. Whitney Walker-Ross ...
Apr 23, 2021 (Whitney Walker-Ross/Submitted)
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Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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8:30 - Drivers are yet again feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Prices have climbed almost 20 cents per litre at some st...