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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Latest COVID update Jan. 25: 1 death, 240 new cases, 3,272 active cases
A Saskatchewan resident in the 80-and-over age group has died due to COVID-19. The individual, who lived in the north-central zone, is the 254th person from the province to die since the pandem...
Jan 25, 2021 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
2020 a less-deadly year on the roads, say early numbers from SGI
According to early numbers from Saskatchewan Government Insurance, 87 people died in road collisions last year, making 2020 a less-deadly year than usual. In the last six decades, the total from 2020 ...
Jan 25, 2021
Premier Scott Moe condemns protest outside Dr. Saqib Shahab's home
Saskatchewan's premier issued strong words Saturday night following a protest outside the family home of chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. Calling the people who did it "a group of idiots...
Jan 23, 2021 Premier Scott Moe (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Langenburg family builds multi-coloured igloo
It takes a lot of ice to build an igloo, which led to one Langenburg family having a pretty cool time building one in their yard. Jeff and Jessica McDonald, along with their sons Maddox and Owen, buil...
Jan 23, 2021
Latest COVID update Jan. 23: 3 deaths, 306 recoveries, 274 new cases
Three more COVID-related deaths were reported in the province, bringing the provincial total to 250 Saskatchewan residents who have died after testing positive for the coronavirus. One death reported ...
Jan 23, 2021
Province explains removal of COVID deaths from count
On Wednesday, the province announced in its daily COVID-19 update that three people who had previously been counted as deaths related to the virus were being removed from the count. The news release s...
Jan 22, 2021
Latest COVID update Jan. 22: 8 deaths, 312 new cases, 3,196 active cases
Six people from the Regina area were among the eight COVID-related deaths reported by the Saskatchewan government Friday. The Regina region reported two deaths in each of the 60-to-69 and 80-and-over ...
Jan 22, 2021
'World needs what Sask. has to offer': Ag powers exports during pandemic
Saskatchewan's agriculture industry has proven it can help prop up the province and keep it competitive, even in the middle of a pandemic. "In Canada, trade and exports to countries around the world i...
Jan 22, 2021 Todd Lewis in Gray, Saskatchewan on Aug. 13, 2020. (Libby Giesbrecht/980 CJME)
Latest COVID update Jan. 21: 13 deaths, 816 recoveries, 227 new cases
Saskatchewan has recorded its deadliest day due to COVID-19. In a media release Thursday, the Ministry of Health said 13 residents of the province had died due to the coronavirus. The previous ...
Jan 21, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Tow truck driver calls on motorists to slow down after close call with semi
A tow truck operator is pleading with motorists to slow down after he had a very close call with a semi. Slavko Hardi, owner of Hardi Towing out of Battleford, was towing a vehicle from the ditch on H...
Jan 21, 2021
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 ...