Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Tuesday’s power outages in Saskatoon not related to last week’s issues
There were a couple of power outages affecting customers of Saskatoon Light & Power in various areas of the city yesterday (Wed) afternoon. The first outage lasted six minutes and affected east-ce...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

River search for Derek Sarazin suspended, investigation continues
The Saskatoon Police Service and the Saskatoon Fire Department have suspended the river search for 48-year-old Derek Sarazin, who was reported missing on November 23rd. A news release from the Police ...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

Carbon tax increase of about $26 a year to be added to SaskPower residential customer bills
As of January 1st, SaskPower is alerting customers that the federal carbon tax applied to the Crown Corporations carbon emissions will increase from $80 to $95 a tonne. To cover that, SaskPower is inc...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

Delay in Saskatoon for increases to TIPPS payments because of postal strike
The City of Saskatoon has a contingency plan to reduce the impacts of the Canada Post service disruption on the Tax Installment Payment Plan Service, or TIPPS. Because of the strike, the City isn̵...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

Grading expected to be done by the end of the week, but the snow will remain in the parking lanes
As of this morning (Wed), crews have completed grading and rut levelling on 70 per cent of all of Saskatoon’s neighbourhoods. The work began Sunday afternoon to address the severe rutting caused...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

Proceeds of St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation Mistletoe Ball go to prevention, detection of disease, patient education and treatment options
St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation has tallied up the proceeds from its 35th annual Mistletoe Ball, raising over $275,000 for the ‘By Your Side Kidney Care Campaign’. The Foundation also...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

North Battleford councillor charged with sexual assault
A North Battleford city councillor has been charged with sexual assault. Ross MacAngus held on to his council seat by two votes after a recount in the November election. This is his second term as a N...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

13-year-old missing since November 30th
The Prince Albert Police Service is looking for tips from the public to locate 13-year-old Mercedes Naytowhow. She was last seen November 30th in the 400 block of River Street East. Police believe the...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

Looking for missing 12-year-old girl
Battlefords RCMP are looking for a 12-year-old girl, Tyra Fineday, who was last seen on Saturday in North Battleford and was later reported missing. She is known to travel to Moosomin First Nation. Ty...
Carol Thomson Dec 11, 2024

Mayor Block discusses first weeks in new role, snow removal, tree lighting ceremomy
Saskatoon’s new mayor says the first few weeks in the position have been great, but that’s not to be confused with easy. Cynthia Block says the residential street grading plan was activate...
Keira Miller Dec 10, 2024















