Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Official Opposition questions $757 million in new spending, Executive Council responds
The Official Opposition is questioning new spending from the government to the tune of about $757 million, with just over a month left before the annual budget. Finance Critic Trent Wotherspoon explai...
Carol Thomson Feb 22, 2024

La Ronge search warrant turns up illicit drugs and loaded gun
Two people are in provincial court Thursday facing a combined 17 charges after RCMP executed a search warrant in La Ronge. On Tuesday, the RCMP La Ronge Crime Reduction Team (CRT) and Police Dog Servi...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 22, 2024

Fire at Saskatoon condominium building
The Saskatoon Fire Department is estimating fire and water damage, at a condo complex in the 600 block of Saskatchewan Crescent West, at $500,000. An alarm monitoring company alerted the fire departme...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 22, 2024

Arrests after Prince Albert Police observe a robbery in progress
Prince Albert Police say members of their Crime Reduction Team saw a robbery going down in a parking lot in the 2800 block of 6th Avenue East shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday evening where four people ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 22, 2024

Saskatchewan government blasts proposed regulations for the oil and gas industry
The Saskatchewan government says proposed federal regulations for the oil and gas industry would be devastating for the province’s economy. The government has voiced its opposition to the propos...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 22, 2024

Two boys, 12 and 13, charged with manslaughter in Saskatoon’s fifth homicide of 2024
Saskatoon Police have arrested and charged two pre-teen boys in connection to the investigation into the city’s fifth homicide of the year. In the early morning hours on Monday, patrol officers ...
Carol Thomson Feb 21, 2024

New evidence leads to a renewed manslaughter charge in P.A.
Manslaughter charges have been brought back against the man accused of killing Alex Whitehead on New Year’s Eve 2022 in Prince Albert. The charge had been stayed in March 2023, but now has been ...
Neil Billinger Feb 21, 2024

Canadians spending more time waiting at walk-in clinics
The average wait time to see a doctor at a Canadian walk-in clinic last year was 68 minutes, compared to 37 minutes in 2023. The data is from Medimap, a Canadian tech company that matches patients wit...
Neil Billinger Feb 21, 2024

BHP’s half-year report states Jansen Potash Mine 38 per cent complete
Across all of BHP’s mining operations the half-year report to the end of December states that revenue is up six per cent to $27.2 billion. The Australian-based company’s only potash invest...
Carol Thomson Feb 21, 2024

Primary health care clinic in Kindersley
The Saskatchewan Health Authority announced Tuesday in a news release that it has begun operating the primary health care clinic in Kindersley. Back on January 1, the SHA entered into a one-year lease...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 21, 2024


















