Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Tow truck driver working on the side of the highway injured by a passing semi
Low Cost Towing in Swift Current says one of its operators was injured and one of their heavy-duty tow trucks was damaged while trying to tow a semi that hit the ditch after rain turned to ice on the ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 28, 2022

Snow and rain closes Saskatchewan highways
Kindersley RCMP say Highway #7 west bound approximately 16 kilometres east of Kindersley is closed because of a jack-knifed semi-trailer unit. Tow trucks are not able to reach the location to remove t...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 28, 2022

Saskatoon Police investigate fire
At 5:49 pm, the Saskatoon Fire Department was called to a report of a fire in a suite in the 200 block of Avenue D South. The caller told 9-1-1 that they had tried to put the fire out with a fire exti...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 28, 2022

Weather strains an already depleted blood inventory: CBS puts out urgent call for donors
Canadian Blood Services is putting out a call for donations. The national blood inventory has dropped by more than 35 per cent since the start of October and because of heavy snowfall, extreme cold an...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 27, 2022

More property crime and more firearm offences in Saskatoon in 2022
Looking back at 2022, the Chief of the Saskatoon Police Service says call volumes have risen, and the City is seeing more property crime and more firearm offences. Chief Troy Cooper says around mid-20...
Carol Thomson Dec 27, 2022

One woman dead after attack in Margo Christmas Eve
Saskatchewan RCMP says a Lloydminster man is in Melfort provincial court today facing second degree murder, attempted murder and assault charges after a Christmas Eve attack. RCMP were called out on D...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 27, 2022

You’ll want travel plans to accommodate a weather system moving in from Alberta
There is a freezing rain warning impacting a region stretching from Kindersley, Rosetown, Biggar, through Outlook Hanley, down the west side of the province to Cypress Hills and as far east along the ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 27, 2022

Discount airlines see the most complaints
The independent entity, the Canadian Transportation Agency, has released new data around complaints filed against airlines. The numbers encompass April to September of this year. In those six months o...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 26, 2022

More snowfall warnings for Saskatchewan
Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the northern grainbelt from Buffalo Narrows, Meadow Lake, Big River across to Prince Albert, Melfort, Tisdale Nipawin and east to Hudson Bay and Po...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 26, 2022

COVID-19 infections driven by Omicron BQ.1
The SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA load in Saskatoon’s wastewater has increased 85.8 percent in the most recent reporting period. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan say the increase in viral RN...
Vanese M. Ferguson Dec 26, 2022
















