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Persephone Theatre cancels 2020-2021 season
Plays won't be staged at Saskatoon's Persephone theatre anytime soon. The theatre is cancelling its season of productions for 2020, and 2021. It said the decision to cancel performances for the forese...
Jul 18, 2020 The Persephone Theatre performed their first show at River Landing on Dec. 11, 2007. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Warm weather drawing crowds to Regina Beach
A waterpark on the water, ice cream, sun and sand - beachgoers are anticipating another fun weekend at Regina Beach. Brothers Max and Joe Rodriguez say their favourite beach activity is visiting Aquat...
Jul 18, 2020
Bear sightings on the rise in Saskatchewan
The recent break-and-enter in Stanley Mission by not your average bear didn’t come as a surprise to Darrell Crabbe. "I’ve seen them do a lot of things," said Crabbe, the executive director...
Jul 18, 2020
$100,000 LottoMax ticket sold in Regina
Someone in Regina woke up on Saturday with a $100,000 lottery windfall. A ticket sold in the Queen City matched the last six numbers of the extra prize in Friday’s LottoMax draw. No one is claim...
Jul 18, 2020
John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80
By Calvin Woodward And Desiree Seals, The Associated Press ATLANTA - John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition ...
Jul 18, 2020
Edmonton Oilers defenceman Caleb Jones says he tested positive for COVID-19
Edmonton Oilers defenceman Caleb Jones has acknowledged he tested positive for COVID-19 before training camp. Jones says he tested positive when he returned to Edmonton from his home in Dall...
Jul 18, 2020
SHA issues warning after Midtown Plaza COVID-19 exposure
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is asking people who went to two different Midtown Plaza stores to self-monitor for symptoms after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. A public health ale...
Jul 17, 2020
15-year-old girl charged with murder in death of 19-year-old woman
Saskatoon police have charged a 15-year-old girl with second-degree murder after a woman was found dead in a car near a Confederation Park apartment building last weekend. Hailey Belanger-Weeseekase, ...
Jul 17, 2020 Saskatoon police are still looking for information in the homicide of 19-year-old Hailey Belanger-Weeseekase. (submitted/Tamara Weeseekase)
Boucher says he can feel the benefits of his newfound strength at practice
The knock against Chris Boucher has always been his slight stature. With long Inspector Gadget limbs on his six-foot-eight frame, the Toronto Raptors forward has always the ability to s...
Jul 17, 2020
Suicide prevention walk moves through Saskatoon with minimal traffic disruptions
A walk to advocate for more suicide prevention action moved through Saskatoon on Friday on its way to Regina. Well-known Mtis fiddler Tristan Durocher was joined by about a dozen people in his walk th...
Jul 17, 2020 The Walk With Our Angels started its Saskatoon leg on Highway 11 in the early afternoon on July 17, 2020. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
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