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Saskatchewan government increases juror payments
Saskatchewan jury members will be making a little extra money next month. The jury allowance is being bumped up to $110 per day in both civil and criminal trials. The change is effective Sept. 1. Befo...
Aug 23, 2019
Jamie Nye: I still would have rather watched the NFL in Regina
Football fans were entertained last night in Winnipeg. They didn't get to see the starters, because Winnipeg botched the field and the pre-season game became a punching bag for critics, as it has been...
Aug 23, 2019
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)
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Sarah Mills: Accountability is a word some elected officials seem to be forgetting
From four people walking away from the RM of Sherwood council with little to no explanation to the reaction of some coun...
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