Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) News

Almost 800 people get a ticket for their driving habits at intersections
In January, police across Saskatchewan issued 781 tickets to drivers who failed to stop or yield at intersections. SGI says one of the most important tips was taking extra care at intersections, since...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 27, 2024

Record cocaine bust
Last month, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) made the largest seizure of cocaine in a prairie airport in history. On February 9 during the examination of a flight originating outside of Canada...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 27, 2024

Record number of surgeries in Saskatchewan
In Saskatchewan, there were more surgeries performed in the first nine months of the fiscal year than ever before, hitting 71,850 procedures performed to the end of December, an increase of 6,000 from...
Carol Thomson Feb 27, 2024

Saskatchewan has fewer rural doctors and nurses than it did in 2018
The Official Opposition is highlighting data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information which shows that there are fewer doctors and nurses in rural Saskatchewan than there were in 2018, the ye...
Carol Thomson Feb 27, 2024

Penalties are increasing for stunting and street racing
This spring stunting, street racing and high-speed offences will come with longer impoundments and new suspensions. As of May 1st, drivers caught stunting, street racing, exceeding the speed limit by ...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 27, 2024

Early morning fire in Saskatoon
A home in the 200 block of Avenue K North was heavily damaged in an early morning fire. The call came in at 4:32 am of a structure on fire. A fire was identified in the basement and crews started atta...
Vanese M. Ferguson Feb 27, 2024

Canada’s Mayors urging for infrastructure funding ahead of federal and provincial budgets
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities recently estimated that the average cost across the country to supply infrastructure for new housing, like roads, water and sewer, parks, amenities and emerge...
Carol Thomson Feb 26, 2024

Saskatoon’s Extreme Cold Weather Emergency Response Plan enacted
The Extreme Cold Weather Emergency Response Plan has been activated at Level 1 by the Saskatoon Emergency Response Organization and it will continue through Wednesday. Level 1 can be activated when th...
Carol Thomson Feb 26, 2024

Closing arguments heard, verdict for Greg Fertuck to be delivered in June
The first-degree murder trial with Greg Fertuck charged in the death of his estranged wife Sheree, who went missing, has now ended. She was last seen leaving her farmyard east of Kenaston in December ...
Carol Thomson Feb 26, 2024

Shooting at Deschambault Lake
Deschambault Lake RCMP are investigating an early Monday morning shooting and if it is connected to an injured person being treated at a local clinic shortly after. Officers were called to a residence...
Neil Billinger Feb 26, 2024
















