Category Archives: ((CJWW) Country 600) Top News Stories

Highway 20 blocked in both directions following train derailment at Craven
Sunday afternoon just after 3:00, Lumsden RCMP responded to a train derailment at Craven. Highway 20 is blocked off in both directions and will remain so until clean-up is completed within several hou...
Keira Miller May 11, 2025

Saskatchewan Research Council celebrates the official launch of its Indigenous Workforce Program
Today, the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) celebrated the official launch of the Indigenous Workforce Program, which is one of several employment strategies within SRC’s wider Indigenous Act...
Lisa Denby May 10, 2025

Firefighters battle early morning structure fire
A structure fire was reported early on May 10, 2025, at 2:02 a.m. in the 1500 block of Forest Dr., where firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from an attached garage. Crews quickly adv...
Newsroom May 10, 2025

Nipawin man arrested for pointing paintball gun at police
A 31-year-old man from Nipawin, SK, is facing multiple charges after pointing an imitation firearm at RCMP officers during a series of incidents on May 8, 2025. The events began around 6:55 p.m. when ...
Newsroom May 10, 2025

Regina City Council dangles $7 million carrot to secure second Costco location
Regina City Council has agreed to offer Costco a $6.78 million incentive to build a second location in the city, but not without alleged external pressure from the provincial government. At a council ...
Keira Miller May 09, 2025

Reports roll in of fraudulent paving company scamming Sask. residents
First, Dalmeny Police Service sounded the alarm bells, now Rosetown RCMP is doing the same. Both communities are being warned of a fraudulent paving company scamming people in multiple areas throughou...
Keira Miller May 09, 2025

More COVID hospitalizations in the last two weeks, but more positive news than negative in latest CRISP report
For the most part, the latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program (CRISP) report contains positive news. However, there is a concern in that COVID-19 hospitalizations more than doubled ...
Les Lazaruk May 09, 2025

SPSA says ATV riding, brush burning, and occasionally arson are main causes of wildfires so far
The fire ban issued by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency for the province’s north on Thursday came one week earlier than in past years. Bryan Chartrand, Executive Director of Land Operations...
Keira Miller May 09, 2025

Saskatchewan NDP call on Sask. Party to declare the overdose crisis a public health emergency
On Tuesday, NDP Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Addictions Betty Nippi-Albright accused the Sask. Party government of ignoring the drug crisis in Saskatoon, saying, “They are burying their...
Lisa Denby May 09, 2025

Highway Hotline sees record pageviews in 2024-25
The province’s online hub for all things highways received over 60 million visits throughout the last year, a new record for Highway Hotline. Between April 2024 and March 2025, the Hotline websi...
Keira Miller May 09, 2025

















