Saskatoon News

A city like Regina boasts many of the advantages of larger cities, without some of the disadvantages.

Opposition critics are taking aim at what they say are out-of-touch, ideologically driven Conservative MPs, citing recent comments on the unemployed and abortion emerging from government ranks.

A weekend fire that destroyed Taylor Concrete and Pumping just outside city limits on Eighth Street East caused more than $1 million in damage and has left 30 people out of work.

The implementation of the FINEOS claims system will help WCB reduce the number of supported technologies, as well as positioning WCB's technology infrastructure to improve the electronic exchange of information with employers, care-givers and other third parties.

An early-morning three-vehicle crash at Laurier Drive and Diefenbaker Drive Friday closed the intersection.

Santa Claus is coming to Saskatoon on Sunday. The 19th annual Saskatoon Santa Claus Parade will begin Sunday at 1 p.m. and will travel through the downtown streets for about an hour, before stopping at Midtown Plaza where Santa resides until Dec.

Vaccinations for the H1N1 virus will be available to the general public in Saskatoon as of Wednesday, according to health officials.

Alexandria Scott has been missing since Wednesday. Photograph by: Supplied photo, Saskatoon Police Service SASKATOON a ' Saskatoon police have yet to find missing 18-year-old Alexandria Scott, believed to be held against her will by her 17-year-old estranged boyfriend.

Saskatoon police Chief Clive Weighill wants to raise speed limits at high schools and elementary schools, but he wants public input first.

"Avoid a crash and don't get smashed" is the theme of an event aimed at Saskatoon students.

The mother of an 11-year-old girl with spina bifida is outraged her daughter was told to pack up her desk before leaving a Saskatoon school last Friday, thanks to a bureaucratic tussle over money between school divisions.

The Ministry of Health confirmed Tuesday morning Saskatchewan has had two more H1N1-related deaths, bringing the provincial toll to nine.

Trades training in Saskatchewan is getting a boost with the construction of a new trades training facility.

A Saskatoon-born academic who became one of Canada's top chemists has died at age 38 after apparently contracting the H1N1 flu virus.

A Saskatchewan provincial court has acquitted Douglas William Fowler of theft under $5,000 a ' way, way under $5,000 a ' and breach of probation for stealing a handful of nuts from a local Co-op grocery.

A man has been charged with murder after the body of a 16-year-old boy was found in a home early Saturday in Onion Lake, a small community northwest of Saskatoon.

Lake Agassiz, which covered much of Central Canada, was formed about 30,000 years ago and eventually held a greater total volume than all of today's Great Lakes combined.

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said she is 'disturbed' about a report that Afghan detainees will be getting the H1N1 shot before thousands of Canadians and she has ordered an investigation into the matter.

JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated.

Evelyn Reisner, executive director of the Sexual Health Centre, says low-income women are at risk because of the abortion policy in Saskatoon Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The StarPhoenix Women requiring abortions in Saskatoon may have difficulties receiving one here and are travelling out of the city for the procedure, says an official with the ...