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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A pandemic and an election: NDP's Meili looks back on busy 2020
Like many others in 2020, Ryan Meili is ready to leave the year in the rear-view mirror. "It has been a pretty hard year for folks across the province and around the world. I'm hoping we learn somethi...
Dec 31, 2020 NDP Leader Ryan Meili. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Saskatchewan vaccination distribution spreading to other areas
Saskatchewan added another tool to its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday afternoon, with the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine arriving in the province. About 4,900 doses arrived a...
Dec 30, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
Latest COVID update Dec. 30: 3 deaths, 147 new cases, 2,949 active cases
For the first time in more than a month, the number of active COVID-19 cases being reported in Saskatchewan has fallen below 3,000. In a media release Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said the...
Dec 30, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Saskatchewan government backs battery recycling program
The Government of Saskatchewan has approved a program that can recycle all of those batteries that have died in the toys kids got for Christmas. In a media release Wednesday, the government announced ...
Dec 30, 2020
Residents of St. Louis care home overwhelmed with Christmas greetings from around the world
By Teena Monteleone Pauline Doucet knew her residents needed a pick-me-up. Most of the 14 seniors in her long-term care home in St. Louis haven't seen their families in months because of the COVID-19 ...
Dec 30, 2020
Latest COVID update Dec. 29: 10 deaths, 208 new cases, 405 recoveries
Ten Saskatchewan residents who previously tested positive for COVID-19 have died over the past two days. In a media release Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said a person in their 20s from the S...
Dec 29, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Saskatchewan communities get funding for road safety projects
A number of Saskatchewan communities are set to share $750,000 in grants from the Provincial Traffic Safety Fund for road safety projects. In total, 66 communities are getting funding for 70 projects....
Dec 29, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
COVID-19 dominates, disrupts, in trying year for Premier Scott Moe
As the head of the province, Premier Scott Moe has been at the forefront of Saskatchewan's COVID response, but he says that wasn't anywhere near the front of his mind a year ago. "There's absolutely n...
Dec 29, 2020 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME file photo)
Regina mayor Sandra Masters expected life as usual, then 2020 happened
As was the case for nearly everyone else, 2020 hardly went according to plan for Regina mayor Sandra Masters. If you were to ask about her expectations for the year in January, she would have been loo...
Dec 28, 2020 Regina Mayor Sandra Masters. (980 CJME file photo)
Latest COVID update Dec. 27: 7 deaths, 559 new cases
Sunday's COVID update isn't just for the last 24 hours, it's from Christmas Day to Sunday. The province did not release a COVID update from Dec. 25 to Dec. 27, so Sunday's numbers are higher th...
Dec 27, 2020 (Saskatchewan Health Authority)
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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 ...