Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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New semi weight cameras record every vehicle passing by
Drivers who often use Highway 11 and the Trans-Canada Highway around Regina may have noticed new sets of cameras filming them as they pass over concrete slabs. The cameras are part of the Ministry of ...
Aug 22, 2019 Crews install the International Road Dynamics weigh-in-motion station near Prince Albert. (Submitted by International Road Dynamics)
Speeding through work zones remains an issue: SGI
Highway workers in the province are still dealing with people speeding through their workplaces. Numbers released by SGI on Thursday showed that 138 tickets were issued across the province in July to ...
Aug 22, 2019 (980 CJME file photo)
Esterhazy-area tremors a regular occurrence, says longtime resident
Despite a 4.1-magnitude earthquake hitting Esterhazy on Thursday night, a longtime resident of the area says quakes are a regular thing and the town is carrying on as normal. "I think it's just part o...
Aug 16, 2019 A stock image of a seismograph, used for measuring earthquakes. (Wikimedia Commons)
Medication works, but Regina doctor says HIV testing needs to be normalized
An HIV diagnosis is not what it used to be. It's not a death sentence and, according to a Regina doctor, it's hardly even life-changing. "When we see new patients who are newly diagnosed, we explain t...
Aug 16, 2019 Provincial health minister Jim Reiter takes part in an HIV information session on June 27, 2017. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Report says salaries for Crown executives fell 18% last year
The pay for members of the upper management of Saskatchewan's Crown corporations fell by nearly 18 per cent over the past year. According to the Crown Investments Corporation's 2018-19 Payee Disclosur...
Aug 16, 2019
Harvest lagging behind five-year average
Recent rainstorms in the province have delayed harvest throughout Saskatchewan. According to the provincial government's weekly crop report, farmers currently have just over one per cent of the 2019 c...
Aug 15, 2019 (Government of Saskatchewan/Submitted)
Prairie provinces have no plans to put carbon tax stickers on pumps
EDMONTON - Carbon-tax-fighting governments in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba say they have no plans to follow Ontario's lead and force gas stations to put anti-carbon tax stickers on their pumps. ...
Aug 14, 2019
Garth Brooks helps bullied 11-year-old girl during Regina show
Plenty of country music fans saw Garth Brooks play last weekend at Regina's Mosaic Stadium, but it was 11-year-old Camille Baragar who got a front-row seat to the music star's show on Saturday. The gi...
Aug 14, 2019 Eleven-year-old Camille Baragar, right, and her mom Connie pose for a photo with her hand-made poster during Garth Brooks' show at Mosaic Stadium on Aug. 10, 2019. (Connie Baragar Facebook page)
Merchant Law gets class action lawsuit against province certified
The provincial government and Merchant Law Group could find themselves in another legal battle. A class action lawsuit has been certified against the Government of Saskatchewan. It's on behalf of peop...
Aug 14, 2019 Lawyer Tony Merchant addresses media in Regina on Aug 30, 2018. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Premier challenges feds on infrastructure money, calls out Goodale
Saskatchewan's premier tossed the ball into the federal government's court and threw a couple jabs at federal ministers on Tuesday when talking about infrastructure money. Scott Moe seemed frustrated ...
Aug 13, 2019 Premier Scott Moe. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...