Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Cows-and-plows settlement for Sturgeon Lake First Nation
The members of Sturgeon Lake First Nation (SLFN) approved a historic $152 million settlement agreement with the federal government. A community vote was held from July 22nd to 26th on an Agricultural ...
Carol Thomson Jul 31, 2024

Saskatoon City Council discusses aggressive coyotes
At Wednesday’s City Council Meeting Councillor Randy Donauer said there have been numerous incidents this year, more so than previous years, involving aggressive coyotes. The Ward 5 City Council...
Carol Thomson Jul 31, 2024

Road closure – unplanned
The Airport Drive southbound turn-bay to Claypool Drive is temporarily closed until Thursday, August 1. The City of Saskatoon says the closure is due to road heaving caused by nearby sewer main constr...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jul 31, 2024

The Fringe is back, celebrating 25th Street Theatre’s 50th anniversary
One of Saskatoon’s big summer events begins Thursday. It’s 25th Street Theatre’s Fringe Festival which continues through Saturday, August 10th both indoors and outdoors. The three in...
Carol Thomson Jul 31, 2024

Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency has a new app to help residents who are evacuated
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency has launched a new app to help residents evacuated from their home due to situations outside of their control like forest fires. The Saskatchewan Evacuation App i...
Vanese M. Ferguson Jul 31, 2024

Canada’s debt is over $1.2 trillion and rising by the second
Canada’s debt increases by $1,200 a second, which is more than $100 million every day. This is something the Canadian Taxpayers Federation highlights using a visual tool – a Debt Clock whi...
Carol Thomson Jul 31, 2024

Former Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister passes away at 73
Lyle Stewart passed away following a lengthy battle with cancer. Premier Scott Moe revealed the news late Tuesday afternoon in a post on the social media platform X. Calling it another 'difficult day'...
Neil Billinger Jul 30, 2024

Assault with a weapon in downtown Saskatoon
Just before 6 Monday night, Saskatoon Police responded to the 600 block of Spadina Crescent East about an assault with a weapon. A woman told officers she had been assaulted by a man with a piece of a...
Carol Thomson Jul 30, 2024

Four Manitoba teens located after going tubing, then reported missing
It took almost 10 hours from when the RCMP were first alerted to find four missing teens who had gone tubing down Shell River, north of Inglis, Manitoba, which is about 120 kilometres southeast of Yor...
Carol Thomson Jul 30, 2024

Waldheim rugby player wins silver medal at Summer Olympics in Paris
Another local athlete has won an Olympic medal. Twenty-year-old Carissa Norsten from Waldheim is a member of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team which won a silver medal on Tuesday. Canada was beat...
Neil Billinger Jul 30, 2024















