Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Elk Ridge founder passes away
Nigel Maxwell Morris Sawchuk said his friend Arne Petersen was a tremendous visionary. The founder of Elk Ridge Resort passed away on Sunday at the age of 85. Sawchuk, a former property owner at Elk R...
Oct 04, 2022
Gas prices in Saskatchewan could reach $1.95: Analyst
Gas prices are once again on the rise and it looks like they could be heading to where they were earlier this summer. Dan McTeague, a gas price analyst and president of Canadians for Affordable Energy...
Oct 03, 2022 (980 CJME file photo)
13 new temperature records set in Saskatchewan Thursday
Saskatchewan was once again feeling more like summer than fall on Thursday. The province saw 13 new record highs set as a result of the unseasonably warm heat wave that has gripped the province. Regin...
Sep 30, 2022
Diagolon founder arrested in Nova Scotia on warrant issued in Sask.
Days after he allegedly talked online about sexually assaulting the wife of Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre, the founder of the extremist group Diagolon has been arrested at his h...
Sep 29, 2022
Harvest 81 per cent complete, well ahead of five-year average: Crop report
Harvest in Saskatchewan is more than 80 per cent complete and well ahead of the five-year average, according to the weekly crop report from the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the report, harves...
Sep 29, 2022
Saskatchewan set 15 new temperature records Wednesday
Saskatchewan is closing out September in record fashion. Unseasonably warm conditions pushed the mercury into the low 30s Wednesday afternoon, causing 15 temperature records to tumble. Leader was one ...
Sep 29, 2022
Campaign launched for Sask. residents to bring in unused medication
Saskatchewan pharmacists want your unused and expired medication. The Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan has launched a public awareness campaign to help address the harmful effects of medication mi...
Sep 28, 2022 Michael Fougere (left), the CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan, and Everett Hindley, the minister of mental health and addictions. (Logan Stein/980 CJME)
North Battleford youth centre set to close
By Angela Brown The Drumming Hill Youth Centre in North Battleford is slated to close in the near future. "With declining numbers of youth in custody at the Drumming Hill Youth Centre, the decision ha...
Sep 28, 2022
Sask. government pulling money away from federal gun buyback
The Saskatchewan government is trying to put its foot down when it comes to guns. In 2020, the federal government reclassified about 1,500 types of guns as prohibited and committed to implementing a b...
Sep 28, 2022 Robert Freberg. (Canadian Sport Shooting Association/YouTube)
Miyo-wîcîwitowin Day coming to Mosaic Stadium
Mosaic Stadium is to be filled with orange Thursday instead of the normal Saskatchewan Roughrider green. The inaugural Miyo-wcwitowin Day will celebrate and recognize the harm done to Indigenous peopl...
Sep 28, 2022 Mosaic Stadium. (980 CJME file photo)
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
8:30 - A mega-farm in Saskatchewan is raising major concerns about debt, rapid expansion and financial pressures facing ...