Sarah Mills: A social media ban for kids under 16 is worthy of debate
It has been adopted in Australia, and now the Saskatchewan government wants to hear views on whether kids should be allo...
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Harvesting memories: Leo Gaboury reflects on farming's evolution
Spiritwood, Sask. - On a sunny fall day, Leo Gaboury and his grandson, Tanner, sit side by side in the cab of a combine. You'd likely assume it would be a challenge for the 93-year-old to make his way...
Oct 11, 2024
Stockyard ordered to pay $325,000 after worker death and injury
Spiritwood Stockyards Ltd. has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and surcharges after two incidents which left one worker dead and other seriously hurt. The company pleaded...
May 23, 2024
RCMP issues correction after wrongly reporting Spiritwood man dead in crash
The Saskatchewan RCMP issued a correction on Tuesday after mistakenly reporting a man dead. The Mounties initially said a 51-year-old Spiritwood man died following a single-vehicle rollover near near ...
Apr 30, 2024
Scotiabank to close branches in Rosetown, Outlook and Spiritwood
Three small towns in Saskatchewan are preparing to lose their Scotiabank branches. Scotiabank confirmed to 650 CKOM that it will be closing its branches in Spiritwood, Outlook and Rosetown before the ...
Dec 15, 2023
'Just a nightmare:' Spiritwood woman's home plagued with bats
WARNING - This story contains images of dead bats. While most people prepare their homes for Halloween with decorations of ghosts, ghouls and bats, one Spiritwood woman is hoping to get rid of the bat...
Oct 24, 2023
Saskatchewan man avoids cartel violence during vacation to Mexico
Jason Gaboury, his wife and some friends were on vacation in Mazatlan last week when cartel violence broke out. Fighting started after alleged drug trafficker Ovidio Guzman -- a son of former cartel b...
Jan 09, 2023 A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state on Jan. 5, 2023 after Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzman, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzman. (AP Photo/Martin Urista)
Suspect in Witchekan Lake emergency alert led RCMP through cornfield in burning SUV
Police have released more details about an emergency alert issued on the Witchekan Lake First Nation last week, which led to four arrests, a high-speed chase through a cornfield, and a slew of firearm...
Sep 13, 2022
3 found dead in Sask. in suspected drug overdose
Mounties are treating the discovery of three bodies inside a vehicle in northern Saskatchewan as a possible drug overdose. Spiritwood RCMP said Saturday around 8:30 a.m. the individuals were found on ...
Apr 11, 2022
First Nations leaders honour RCMP officers from Spiritwood
In what was heralded as a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, members of the RCMP were honoured by a Saskatchewan First Nation on Tuesday. Members of Witchekan Lake First Nation were joined by representative...
Mar 29, 2022
Bust on Witchekan Lake First Nation leads to nearly 70 charges
Gun and drug seizures and nearly 70 charges against four men were the results of a bust by the Spiritwood RCMP on Sunday on the Witchekan Lake First Nation. In a release Tuesday, the Mounties said off...
Mar 08, 2022
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Today on The Evan Bray Show, Evan discusses the impacts social media is having on childhood today, the spike in need fro...