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Liberal party to hold caucus retreat in Saskatoon
More than any other province, you could call Saskatchewan the lion's den for the federal Liberal Party, and it's heading here. The party will hold its annual summer caucus retreat in September and 980...
Aug 02, 2018
SGEU workers vote in favour of strike mandate
The largest union in Saskatchewan has voted in favour of giving its negotiating committee a strike mandate. Members belonging to the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees' Union's (SGEU) Publi...
Aug 01, 2018 (980 CJME file photo)
Designated drivers rewarded in Sask. pilot project
As Saskatchewan gets tougher on drunk drivers, the province is looking at less punitive ways to prevent impaired drivers from getting behind the wheel. The province is working with various government ...
Jul 30, 2018
'Get used to it:' No changes coming to Rider offence
It was second and seven in the fourth quarter and the Riders were in desperate need of a touchdown. Desperate need of any sort of offence, really, but a touchdown would have brought them within five p...
Jul 29, 2018 Roughrider running back Marcus Thigpen charges the line after taking a hand off from Brandon Bridge on July 28, 2018.
Riders offence needs quick start against surging Stamps
It's a year some thought the Calgary Stampeders may falter, but so far that hasn't been the case. The top team in the CFL for the last two seasons has continued its streak in the 2018 season with a 5-...
Jul 28, 2018 Roughriders quarterback Brandon Bridge scrambles away from an Alouettes attacker on Oct. 27, 2017. (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Mutated strains of HIV in Saskatchewan causing illness quicker: Study
AMSTERDAM - Mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses in the Indigenous population, new research has shown. The research from the BC Ce...
Jul 26, 2018 (Saskatchewan Ministry of Health)
Darrell Davis: Great golfing in Saskatchewan
I've played 20 of Canada's top 100 golf courses on Scoregolf's annual list. That's pretty good for a guy from Saskatchewan because our province unfairly has only one course on the list: Riverside Coun...
Jul 26, 2018
New Sask. area code: result of technology 'explosion'
Saskatchewan just got a second area code a little over five years ago, now a third one - 474 - is in the works. It's being put in place because the Canadian Numbering Administrator (CNA) found the 306...
Jul 24, 2018
Despite 71 per cent rise in gun crime, crime down: RCMP
Despite a major increase in gun violence last year, overall crime in Saskatchewan's rural areas is down. According to recent 2017 numbers released by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, overal...
Jul 23, 2018 The RCMP is investigating a fatal crash south of Swift Current. (980 CJME file photo)
West Nile virus risk rising in southeast Sask.
The risk of being bitten by a mosquito with West Nile virus is getting higher in southeast Saskatchewan. Provincial mosquito program traps around Estevan showed an increase in these West Nile-carrying...
Jul 20, 2018
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