Saskatchewan News

News Talk 650 CKOM - 16 hours 30 min ago
The Saskatoon Police Service is set to grow by two officers. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety announced it was giving a one-time grant of around $305,000 to the service to fund two alternative response officer positions. “Government is proud to partner with... Read more

News Talk 650 CKOM - 16 hours 42 min ago
A report released by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) indicates library workers in Saskatchewan face a growing number of violent incidents and harassment while on the job. There are 650 public library workers in the province. Just over 100 of them from the Regina, Saskatoon, North... Read more

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 16 hours 58 min ago
A Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate is turning to the Supreme Court of Canada after successive court decisions upheld the provincial nursing regulator's dismissal of his complaint.... Read more

CTV Regina - 18 hours 8 min ago
Leaders of a Saskatchewan First Nation are in Vancouver to launch plans to take over control of child welfare services for its members.

News Talk 650 CKOM - 19 hours 31 min ago
8:30 – Cameco has officially signed the deal with Energoatom Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy to be the sole supplier of uranium for the next 12 years. Tim Gitzel , CEO of Cameo joins Taylor to explain what is next now that deal is official. LIVE Tim Gitzel... Read more

CBC Saskatchewan - 19 hours 36 min ago
Leaders of a First Nation in Saskatchewan are in Vancouver to launch plans to take over control of child welfare services for its members.

CTV Regina - 19 hours 46 min ago
A Canadian city has just been named the worst in the country for bed bugs for the third year in a row.

CTV Regina - 19 hours 50 min ago
Saskatchewan RCMP said themselves and Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan (CTSS) arrested and charged 138 motorists around the province under the criminal code for impaired driving in January and February.

News Talk 650 CKOM - 19 hours 51 min ago
By Jay D Haughton It can be challenging to move to Canada from another country for school but imagine being the only woman in the class. This is something that Harsh Saini, an international student from India faces, as she is the only woman in her Computer Engineering Technology... Read more

News Talk 650 CKOM - 19 hours 59 min ago
By Susan McNeil Four people have been arrested and charged while a fifth has a warrant out for his arrest after Prince Albert police completed the largest drug bust in the force’s history. Chief Jonathan Bergen said Monday afternoon that 31.2 kilograms of cocaine were found in a trailer home north... Read more

News Talk 650 CKOM - 20 hours 9 min ago
The rotunda in the legislature was full of people Monday morning, asking for help from the provincial government. They were all clients of the Saskatchewan Assured Income Disability (SAID) program, and each said what they get isn’t enough to live on. Sydney Chadwick said she gets $1,100 to live on... Read more

Regina Leader-Post - 20 hours 38 min ago
In a recent Leader-Post article, it was mentioned that there were 15,000 private MRI scans in Saskatchewan in the past eight years. The... Read more

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 20 hours 44 min ago
Businesses and non-profit organizations regularly open and move in Saskatoon. Today the StarPhoenix talks to Jack Cox, vice president of global fulfilment and logistics for FBN (Farmers Business Network), which recently opened what he says is their largest storage facility in the world.... Read more

CBC Saskatchewan - 21 hours 5 min ago
Canada's inflation rate cooled to 5.2 per cent in February, the largest deceleration from a previous month since April 2020, according to Statistics Canada.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 21 hours 44 min ago
The regulator for Saskatchewan's registered psychiatric nurses (RPNs) has launched an advertising campaign meant to alert the public to concerns about staff shortages.... Read more

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 21 hours 44 min ago
Knave. It was a stumper.... Read more

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 21 hours 44 min ago
Connor Bedard fever is sweeping through Saskatoon at an opportune time, given the sometimes feverish debate over a new downtown arena.... Read more

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 21 hours 44 min ago
The March 11 letter 'Free speech vital for our culture' by Kelly Block, MP for Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek was loaded with political rhetoric. This is typical of certain... Read more

Regina Leader-Post - 21 hours 44 min ago
Provincial budget day is a great day to look ahead to the future, but it's an even better day to demonstrate what you've learned from the past.... Read more

CTV Regina - 23 hours 26 min ago
The annual pace of inflation cooled in February as it posted its largest deceleration since April 2020.

CBC Saskatchewan - 1 day 1 hour ago
The federal government continues to advertise on TikTok, despite having banned the app from all government devices due to security concerns. Some tech experts argue Ottawa is sending a contradictory message.

CBC Saskatchewan - 1 day 1 hour ago
Although Indigenous peoples desperately need allies in the legal profession, at some point we should also recognize how the ongoing injustice seems to be paying off mortgages for many non-Indigenous professionals.

CBC Saskatchewan - 1 day 1 hour ago
Pandemic restrictions silenced traditional music education over the past few years and that interruption has had a definite impact, say music educators. But passionate students, teachers and advocates are raising their voices to remind Canadians of the value of music in classrooms. 

CTV Regina - 1 day 8 hours ago
Jim Lemaigre, the Sask. Party MLA for Athabasca, accused Trent Wotherspoon, the MLA for Regina Rosemont of ‘extremely offensive and racially charged statements,’ following a debate in the legislature.

CTV Regina - 1 day 8 hours ago
TikTok creator Ethan Craft said feedback has generally been positive about his concept for a reimagined Saskatchewan licence plate.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 1 day 8 hours ago
Sexual assault cases concluded by Moose Jaw and Prince Albert police without laying charges will be reviewed by an independent agency after the Saskatchewan government formally announced the program's expansion to the two cities.... Read more

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 1 day 8 hours ago
City police are advising people to be on the lookout for coyotes after two of the animals were put down over the weekend, and a third animal fled before it could be euthanized.... Read more

CTV Regina - 1 day 8 hours ago
People receiving Saskatchewan disability benefits could soon receive an increase. Several recipients of the Saskatchewan Assured Income Disability (SAID) benefits were at the legislative building on Monday, saying they can’t make ends meet anymore.

Global Regina - 1 day 9 hours ago
Paul Merriman says he did follow the advice of the province's top doctor. A Global New investigation showed the top doctor warned Merriman the acute care system would collapse.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 1 day 9 hours ago
Prince Albert city police have arrested two men and two women and are seeking another man in an investigation that led to the largest cocaine seizure in the force's... Read more

News Talk 650 CKOM - 1 day 10 hours ago
Two coyotes were euthanized in Saskatoon over the weekend, prompting a public warning Monday from the Saskatoon Police Service. In a release, police said officers were called Saturday to the 600 block of Feheregyhazi Boulevard after a caller found a coyote lying in an alley and acting strange. The... Read more

News Talk 650 CKOM - 1 day 10 hours ago
Canora’s a long way from Toronto, but Mounties in the Saskatchewan town nabbed a man who was wanted in the Ontario capital region. According to a release from Peel Regional Police, a 50-year-old man was suspected of launching fireworks at three Peel Regional Police divisions on the evening of... Read more

CTV Regina - 1 day 10 hours ago
The Hospitals of Regina Foundation (HRF) received a $250,000 donation on Monday, thanks to the success of the recent Evening in Greece event.

CBC Saskatchewan - 1 day 10 hours ago
The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL) is calling on the province to roll-back utility hikes and raise the minimum wage, as inflation continues to negatively impact the cost of living for workers. 

News Talk 650 CKOM - 1 day 10 hours ago
More than half of the Saskatchewan people arrested for impaired driving by the RCMP in January and February blew more than twice the legal limit — with two people giving samples that were more than four times over the limit. To mark National Impaired Driving Prevention Week, the Saskatchewan... Read more

CTV Regina - 1 day 11 hours ago
The Regina Police Service (RPS) is asking for the public's help with an investigation into an alleged theft with a weapon on Saturday.

News Talk 650 CKOM - 1 day 12 hours ago
By Nigel Maxwell Nearly a year after a man was shot and killed on the Beardy’s Okemasis Cree Nation, a guilty plea has been entered in the case. Allison Bear, 21, has received a prison sentence of three and a half years. The Saskatoon woman had initially been charged with second-... Read more

Global Regina - 1 day 12 hours ago
Officers seized 31.2 kilograms of cocaine, a cocaine cutting agent, $55,000 in cash, gun parts and ammunition and paraphernalia.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - 1 day 12 hours ago
Derek Keenan spent his weekend, and a good chunk of Monday, bartering and negotiating. He pored over numbers, scenarios and players he could either part with or welcome.... Read more

CTV Regina - 1 day 12 hours ago
Mixed reviews continue to roll in days after Experience Regina delivered new campaign slogans that lean into the double entendre of the capital city’s name.

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