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The Saskatoon Blades returned to the ice Saturday for the first time in over a year.

Broncos drop season opener to Blades March 14, 2021 Swift Current Broncos forward Michael Farren (right) caught Saskatoons Brandon Lisowsky in the open ice during the 2020-21 season opener in Regina on March 13. STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER The Swift Current Broncos opened the 2020-21 season on Saturday with a 4-2 loss to the Saskatoon Blades in Regina. The Broncos held a pair of leads, but the Blades scored three unanswered goals in the third period to pull out the win. Kyle Crnkovic and Tri...

Posted: Mar 14, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: March 15 Some Saskatchewan people were inspired to make positive life changes when the global pandemic hit. (Submitted by (clockwise from top left) Jess Gibson, Leah Knibbs, Life Outside and Maddie Ouellette)

  WINNIPEG -- A collectors mentality is behind a massive collection of 21,000 vinyl records, 30 years in the making, which one Manitoba man is beginning to sell off. Selling 13,000 Vinyl Albums From Personal Collection at Very Low Prices, reads the caption on a social media ad posted by Lionel Bernhard. The good ones, he said, are staying with him. "So when I started selling, I had my whole collection up for grabs. After losing all my Rush, Neil Young, et cetera, I decided to stop and just...

Jackson Dodge sells to new ownership group from Sask. Poll Government policy A car dealership group based in southwest Saskatchewan is expanding into Alberta’s southeast. Standard Motors will acquire Jackson Dodge in Medicine Hat at the end of the month, the Plewis Automotive Group announced Friday. It will become Standard Jeep Ram, and the fifth dealership in the network including three in Swift Current and Standard Chev Buick in Shaunavon. “This is a very exciting announcement for us as w...

Article content Shay Shpak, director of driver examination services at SGI, said their team continues to work overtime to keep waitlist numbers low. “They’ve done amazing work,” she said in a recent interview. The process, however, has not been easy. Driving examiners have had to adapt to new methods of testing that were developed to meet social distancing policies. One such method, that accounts for half of all driving tests, is called the “trail car method.” It requires the examiner...

Broncos announce leadership group for 2020-21 season March 13, 2021 The Swift Current Broncos announced their leadership group for the 2020-21 season today, involving five players wearing A’s on their jerseys, and no official team captain. The decision not to name a permanent captain was made to honour the late Colby Cave, who served as the Broncos team captain for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. 2001-born forward Aiden Bulych will have an A on his jersey for all 24 games this season while 2...

The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency (WSA) has released its updated spring runoff report for March 2021, and it shows varying conditions across the province. Most of the far south, including . . .

REGINA -- Friday marks one year since Saskatchewan reported its first case of COVID-19. A person in their 60s who had travelled to Egypt was the first presumptive case in the province. Since then, Saskatchewan has endured several spikes in cases, deadly outbreaks in long-term care and a quiet Christmas. The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in December paved the way for optimism for some, and skepticism for others. Here’s a look back at the past year of pandemic storylines in Saskatchewan...

    TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — A recent study has found that hundreds of species in nine ecoregions across Canada are threatened by habitat and biodiversity loss due to climate change. The study, conducted by the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), analyzed nine “crisis ecoregions” in southern Canada housing diverse wildlife and habitats that are at risk of being lost amid global warming and increase in human activities, coupled with a lack of conservation efforts. The findings we...