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

Thirteen-year-old charged with robbery, possession of a knife
A 13-year-old boy is facing charges in connection to a robbery Tuesday afternoon. Saskatoon Police report that officers responded just before 3 p.m. Tuesday to a robbery in progress at a store in the ...
Carol Thomson Aug 14, 2024

Feds invests $16 million in critical mineral processing at Saskatchewan Research Council
To ensure Canada doesn’t have to send its rare earth elements overseas for processing, the Government of Canada is investing over $16 million into the Saskatchewan Research Council located in Sa...
Keira Miller Aug 14, 2024

WestJet still cancelling up to 50 flights a day
WestJet is continuing to work on get another 16 of its aircraft back in the air after the recent hailstorm that pummeled Calgary including the Calgary Airport and WestJet’s planes. The air carri...
Vanese M. Ferguson Aug 14, 2024

RCMP provides advice to farmers following numerous accounts of hay bales lit on fire
At the beginning of the week, we the Saskatoon Media Group newsroom told you about several accounts of hay bales in the Macklin area being set on fire. Unity and Wilkie RCMP report that 13 incidents t...
Keira Miller Aug 14, 2024

Saskatoon officers attacked trying to break up group of teens
The Saskatoon Police Service has charged two 15-year-old boys and two teen girls, aged 14 and 15, after officers were mobbed on a call Tuesday night. Around 9:00 p.m. officers responded to a report of...
Vanese M. Ferguson Aug 14, 2024

Prince Albert Grand Council critical of province’s handling of wildfire as residents of Sandy Bay evacuate
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says there are now 83 wildfires burning in the province with 475 fires to date this year and 328 being the five-year average. The SPSA has flagged the Flanagan fi...
Newsroom Aug 14, 2024

Town of Kindersley pleads guilty in death of employee
The Town of Kindersley pleaded guilty on August 13th in a joint submission with the Crown related to the tragic death of town employee Wilmer Gonzalez on August 30, 2022. Gonzalez, 48, a public works ...
Newsroom Aug 14, 2024

Large drug bust from Saskatoon Police/Federal RCMP teamwork
Through a collaboration between the RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region Serious and Organized Crime team and the Saskatoon Police Service, two people have been arrested and a significant quantity o...
Carol Thomson Aug 13, 2024

First degree murder charge in death of Prince Albert man
An arrest has been made by the Prince Albert Police Service in connection to the death of 41-year-old Norman Wenzel on July 1st. Emergency crews responded to a home on Kemp Crescent about a disturbanc...
Carol Thomson Aug 13, 2024

Fully equipped ambulance donated to Stanley Mission Cree Nation
A retired ambulance donated by Medavie Health Services West which has been fully equipped, thanks to other sponsors and is in great working order, heads to the small northern community of Stanley Miss...
Carol Thomson Aug 13, 2024














